Can't get tickets to what is probably the hottest show on Broadway right now? Don't worry about it! Book of Mormon, Trey Parker and Matt Stone's Broadway hit that has somehow managed to rise above its scandal-baiting plot, is heading to the big screen...eventually. more ›

College kids these days get all the cool surprise lecturers! Like...South Park and The Book of Mormon's Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who apparently crashed a recent freshman "Storytelling Strategies" class on Tuesday at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. You gotta feel bad for the inevitable kid who slept through that class. more ›

The dream of an artificially flavored, mass-produced junk food will become a reality for millions of South Park fans at the beginning of next month, when Frito-Lay unleashes 1.5 million packages of Cheesy Poofs to be sold in Wal-Mart stores. Tragically, there are no Wal-Mart stores in New York (thanks a lot, union agitators!) but if you've got wheels you can make a pilgrimage to the suburbs and pick up a bag for just $2.99! The limited-edition Poofs are being marketed as part of a celebration of 15 years of South Park, the wickedly satirical series from Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who are also enjoying the boffo success of their unlikely Broadway musical triumph, The Book of Mormon. Below, Eric Cartman's inimitable Cheesy Poofs audition: more ›

MOVIE: Guess it's only fitting that Trey Parker and Matt Stone's Team America play somewhere tonight. This Bushwick theater is new and on an outdoor rooftop -- so check the sky before you head out. If it's all clear, get ready for food from their grill, drinks from their bar and the wind in your hair. more ›

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Bob Saget, Matt Stone and Arianna Huffington walk into a room...it sounds like the beginning of a joke. Oh but it's not. It's only part of the panel set up for tomorrow nights discussion at the 92nd St Y entitled "Punch Lines and Politics: A Seconding the First Forum". more ›

Thanks to Product Shop NYC (who also reports that the New Year's Eve act at Madison Square Garden will be...The Black Crowes), Gothamist is salivating over this year's New Yorker Festival line-up. Edie Falco! The RZA! Ricky Gervais! Trey Parker and Matt Stone! Sleater-Kinney! And Wallce and Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit! The New Yorker Festival runs September 23-25, and tickets will go on sale on August 25. The tickets range in price from $5 to $50, most being in the $15-30 area, and the programs range from the highbrow (reading by Ian McEwan, Town Hall Meeting on Iraq) to the delightfuly low (A Salute to the Three Stooges). Here's a list of the programs. more ›

South Park is back tonight with new episode called "Douche and Turd":

When PETA demonstrates against the use of a cow as South Park Elementary’s mascot, the student body is forced to choose a new one. As the election approaches, Kyle tries to convince everyone that his candidate, a giant douche, is better than Cartman’s nominee, a turd sandwich.

Gothamist is excited about Team America, the marionette movie from Trey Parker and Matt Stone of South Park that will spoof both left and right wing Americans, as well as world leaders in rude and hilarious fashion (purposefully bad accents for Kim Jong Il, for starters, let alone the marionette sex issue). But we don't know exactly why composer Marc Shaiman left the film Or that's what we thought we heard. Marc, a film and musical composer (he won a Tony for Hairspray and kissed his partner on live TV), was working on Team America and actually was blogging about working on the film's score. It's not up anymore, but Gothamist had the foresight (okay, we were going to do a post ages ago but never got around to it) to copy one entry:

But on TEAM AMERICA, I finally got them to write MY titles on the music, so, taking important lines of dialogue from the movie, I had the joy of watching these virtuosic musicians see they were playing a piece of music entitled "SURPRISE, COCK FAGS!" or "HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A MAN EAT HIS OWN HEAD?" some bowed their heads in shame, while others played with a brand new intensity!! On this score, I have gotten to write a much more muscular score than I am usually given the opportunity to do. And none of the usual kooky comedy flourishes. There has not been one measure of pixilated pizzicato strings or wacky woodwind passages. Oh no, it's all low brass and blaring horns here today. And banging ethnic and techno drums. And even better, NO PRODUCER or DIRECTOR!! They're too busy elsewhere!! Whheeeeeee!!!!

So there is a Thunderbirds movie being filmed. But it's live-action, not marionette-style the way the original Thunderbirds was. Enter our favorite provocateurs, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, creators of South Park. Variety announced that Scott Rudin will be producing the Stone-Parker take on marionette-driven filmmaking with "Team America." Stone says, "I hate all these new Hollywood films that are CGI-driven. Trey and I loved that 'Thunderbirds' series because of the artistry of the marionettes. It's amazing that a studio would make a movie out of it and take out the only thing that was good about the series." more ›

since "The Last Picture Show." Anyway, Bob Balaban probably got the role of Warren Littlefield, president of NBC during the 90s, after producers of The Late Shift (the HBO film based on NYT writer Bill Carter's account of Leno and Letterman jockeying to be the number late night host in the post-Carson era) saw him as Russell Dalrymple, head of NBC, on Seinfeld. more ›