Trump Outsmarts ‘South Park’ Creators Completely by Accident

Satire may be dying, and Trump’s the one killing it. Just ask South Park’s Trey Parker and Matt Stone.

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If you’ve been keeping up with South Park, you might have wondered why the traditionally sharp and insightful cartoon is all but ignoring the rich material emanating from the US President and his White House.

But you have to feel sorry for creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. They tried – it’s just that weirdly, Trump outwitted them.

So how do you stop professional satirists from making fun of you? Easy.

In an interview to ABC, Parker and Stone admitted that though they tried to satirise the US administration, the almost-daily buffet of ludicrousness emerging from the White House beat anything they could come up with.

It’s tricky now because satire has become reality. [...] It’s really hard to make fun of and in the last season of South Park, which just ended a month-and-a-half ago, we were really trying to make fun of what was going on but we couldn’t keep up and what was actually happening was much funnier than anything we could come up with. So we decided to kind of back off and let them do their comedy and we’ll do ours.

So there it is. In a post-truth world where words mean nothing and facts are subjective, we may not even have satire to take refuge in.

Source: ABC Australia