Steve Albani, a Comedy Central spokesman, had "no comment" on why the censorship was imposed.
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South Park creators Matt Stone, left, and Trey Parker appear at a party to celebrate the 10th season of the animated Comedy Central television series in 2006. Then the episode was removed from the cable channel's website entirely.
Bleeps and barsīleeps and censorship bars were installed on the cartoon. They posted a photo of the dead Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, murdered for his criticism of Islam in 2004, saying it was a warning of "what will likely happen" to Stone and Parker.Ĭomedy Central caved instantly. They implicitly threatened the show's creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, with assassination for blasphemy. The plot is silliness itself.īut the pious stalwarts behind the website took another view. In the end, though, Santa Claus pops out of the suit. Satire, evidently, stops at Islam.įor some reason, the Prophet Muhammad appeared in that episode, wearing a bear costume. Jesus downloads porn on the show, Buddha snorts coke, the Virgin Mary has anal bleeding, and Scientology is described as a "big fat global scam."īut last week, in Episode 201, Comedy Central drew the line. South Park has a habit of ridiculing religions without mercy. We're especially ferocious when somebody else is censoring something, as Comedy Central did last week with its South Park cartoon franchise.
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We're all fierce free speechers in the news business, or at least we're supposed to be.
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