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After spending basically all of season 27 making fun of Donald Trump, South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker don’t want people to forget that they make fun of the other side as well; they just want whatever they’re writing about to be funny. “We’re just very down-the-middle guys,” Parker told the New York Times when talking about their most recent season, making fun of all things MAGA. “Any extremists of any kind we make fun of. We did it for years with the woke thing. That was hilarious to us. And this is hilarious to us.” The duo explains that they’re more “attracted” to taboo topics, and that, because speaking out against the administration had become taboo amid the Colbert cancellation and Kimmel suspension, they went for it. “It’s not that we got all political,” Parker shared. “It’s that politics became pop culture.” South Park’s focus on Trump has been paying off. The season 27 premiere had more than 6 million viewers across all platforms, its highest ratings in 25 years. So there’s no stopping Parker and Stone from making fun of the current administration, especially when politics continues to blend with pop culture. “It’s like the government is just in your face everywhere you look,” Parker continued. “Whether it’s the actual government or whether it is all the podcasters and the TikToks and the YouTubes and all of that, and it’s just all political and political because it’s more than political. It’s pop culture.”
