this is just the first of three pages, this is from http://www5.playboy.com/magazine/current/english/interview.html so go read it all! --------------------------------------------- a candid conversation with the outrageous duo behind south park about corrupt studios, evil celebrities and why we should all see tom cruise's weenie Introduction It started without much fanfare on a Wednesday night in August 1997. A new animated series debuted on Comedy Central -- but this was animation that gloried in its crudeness, animation created not with computer programs but with construction paper, scissors and glue. On the screen, four primitive creations -- third graders, they were supposed to be -- stood around a bus stop talking. One of them called another a dildo. When somebody asked, "What's a dildo?" a kid in an orange parka explained -- but his parka was pulled so tightly around his face that you couldn't understand a word he said. When the most obnoxious of the four (Eric Cartman, a hefty kid who insists, "I'm not fat, I'm big-boned!") told about a dream he'd had of alien visitors, the other kids decided that aliens had abducted Cartman and given him an anal probe -- or, as one of them delicately explained it, "Aliens stuck stuff up your ass!" That was the beginning of South Park, and the beginning of an unexpected ride that has been by turns gratifying, infuriating and remunerative beyond the wildest imaginings of the show's creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone. A five-minute animated short they created as a lark turned into an unlikely television show; that show turned into a huge hit, a cause célèbre, and one of those pop-culture litmus tests that come along only every few years. In South Park, the kids have foul mouths but (mostly) good hearts as they try to cope with the outlandish, the insane and the offensive. The show slams celebrities and celebrity, it pushes every hot button it can, and it borrows from the cut-and-paste animation style of Monty Python's Terry Gilliam to be as profoundly low-tech as possible. (Computers now do the work, but Parker and Stone are determined not to alter the show's "crappy" look.) South Park also happens to be as hilarious a half hour as can be found on television, and it has put Comedy Central on the map and made stars out of Parker and Stone -- who reaffirmed their clout with last summer's movie South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut. They also became two of the first filmmakers to sign lucrative Internet contracts. Their new deal with Shockwave.com gave them a large equity stake in the company.
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