South Park

By Seth As if the surprise death of Bernie Mac wasn't showbiz tragedy enough, before the weekend was through we'd also be robbed of music legend Isaac Hayes. What can we say about the wocka-chicka- wocka-chicka-popularizer that hasn't already been said?

By T-RO Kirsten Schaffer: Half Life, by Jennifer Phang, is exceptional (see video clip above). The thing that they have in common—which is interesting and sort of new is that the gay subject matter is definitely a part of a story, but it’s not the central focus of any of these stories.

By Seth · Yesterday, we promised you a brainmeltingly awesome new thing, and dare we say, you got it. We only wished the entire episode could have existed inside the cat-pee-induced, hallucinatory world of Heavy South Metal Park [South Park]

By Seth · Tonight, two of our very favorite animated things—South Park and Canadian sci-fi fleshcore classic Heavy Metal—are to be combined into one, brainmeltingly awesome new thing. (One can only hope.) [Vulture]

By Seth After a touching season premiere in which Cartman learns he's been accidentally infected with HIV, South Park decided to lighten things up in the second episode of their 12th season by having Britney Spears put a shotgun in her mouth and blow off 70% of her head. (Don't worry—she lives!)

By Seth In Edinburgh to host a TV festival's "South Park Masterclass," Matt Stone told the audience that Saddam Hussein has been subjected to South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut during his trial, the animated feature-length film in which Hussein is portrayed as Satan's selfish and meanspiri...

By Seth It would be underestimating Matt Stone and Trey Parker's considerable social mores-mincing abilities to assume that this was the end of the line for their parade of wrongness. We look forward to a future South Park in which the First Family tries to sell a jaded vaudeville booker on their n...

By Seth And while it's not totally clear if Chef is really dead (at the end of the episode, he's seen being resurrected, Darth-Vader style), Hayes' spokesperson wants it to be known that the musician is "100-percent" finished with "South Park."

By Seth That's a far cry from the robotic words of his official departing statement ("...religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honored..."), which, we were surprised to discover, spells "pls hlp me im scred rm one oh nine clbrity centr" if you read only every th...

By Seth It would have been tough for South Park to top the Scientology-bashing of "Trapped in the Closet," the episode that started the whole fracas in the first place. They may have succeeded, however, with their much anticipated season premiere, titled "The Return of Chef!" As has been reporte...

By Seth A network spokesman told Reuters that someone "besides Hayes" will be providing his character's voice for the episode, which looks to be a handsome, Scientology-bashing bookend companion to their classic of the genre, "Trapped in the Closet." Sadly, while the fictional, animated Sou...

By Seth FoxNews.com's Roger Friedman delves into that matter of Isaac Hayes' recent huffy exit from South Park, announced by a sanctimonious statement in which the singer decried: "Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honored." If it seemed rash and un...

By Mark The attorney for South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone issued this official statement to us via e-mail late yesterday addressing the Scientology-clowning, Tom-Cruise-baiting "Trapped in the Closet" episode that Comedy Central quietly disappeared on Wednesday night, rep...

By Mark Not only is this the first time that the South Park creators have been officially censored in their ten hit seasons with Comedy Central, Viacom officials also reportedly ordered Matt Stone and Trey Parker not to discuss the reason why their episode was cancelled.

By Seth South Park" co-creator Matt Stone responded sharply in an interview with The Associated Press Monday, saying, "This is 100 percent having to do with his faith of Scientology... He has no problem and he's cashed plenty of checks with our show making fun of Christians."

By Seth It would be an impressive maneuver if Cruise's ferocious legal team were capable of censoring the episode in looser lipped though litigation friendly England, when they couldn't manage to accomplish the same on our shores. Should UK broadcasters choose to air it, however, rest assured...

By Seth Perhaps the most outrageous and offensive South Park episode of all time (and that's really saying something), "Bloody Mary," which first aired Dec. 7 as this season's finale, was pulled from the network schedule last night. Califano also pledged to have Viacom president and CEO Tom Fres...

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By Seth Of course, Parker and Stone flatly deny the accusation, though we must say the similarities are pretty striking. Still, their claims of coincidence are not out of the question, with only so many offensive stories out there to tell (they even got around to the Scientologists this year, ris...

By Mark Even if someone decided to take this argument beyond the theoretical and accused Cruise of being African-American just to see if he'd sue (hey, South Park, want more free publicity?), we doubt they'd ever see a legal threat. After all, Cruise pals Will Smith and Jamie Foxx are doing pretty...

By Seth Comedy Central s parent company, Viacom which also owns Paramount might not be too keen either about seeing its studio s big-money Mission Impossible 3 star ridiculed yet again just when America had seemingly moved on from its obsession with his sexuality and Scientology ties. Asked abo...