"South Park" Guys Get Political
Inside.com reports Matt Stone and Trey Parker are going political with a new half-hour live-action sitcom, tentatively called Family First. Real actors will mock presidents, politics and popular media with the same amount of political incorrectness South Park fans know and love.
Stone and Parker say the show will be cast after the presidential election November 7, so they can fine-tune Family First to mock the new first family.
The animators-cum-sitcom producers describe themselves as Republicans, but lament the lack of choice in this year's election.
"Bush would be fun because he would be so pissed," Parker tells Inside. "But I think Gore would make a better show because he's so dull you can plug anything into him. So if you want a better show, vote for Gore."
"These are the lamest, most boring people in the world and one of them is gonna be president," Parker says. "It's like 'Do you want to go see Battlefield Earth or Home Alone 9?'...Maybe I'll just stay home. I mean, how did it come to this, that these are our only choices?"
If choice Gore wins the two have a proposed plot depicting aides building a robot to handle the President's boring duties. The robot says 'I...am...the...President," but no one can tell the difference between the fake Prez and the real deal.
Parker and Stone, who are known for their seat-of-the-pants productions, say the prospect of using real actors is more worrisome than ticking off the President of the United States.
"Now [with South Park] we can change the ending of Wednesday's show on Tuesday night," Stone says. "But with live action, we won't be able to say, 'Hey, let's have them walk over here and say that instead.' "
After visiting the sets of Everybody Loves Raymond and Will & Grace to see how sitcoms get made, fear struck, Parker says. "Within 10 seconds, we were like 'Dude, we are so fucked.' "






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