NEWS & NOTES : ANOTHER ROUND OF `SOUTH PARK' KICKS OFF ON COMEDY CENTRAL.Byline: Gail Shister Knight Ridder
Knight Ridder (IPA: /ˈrɪdɚ/) was an American media company, specializing in newspaper and Internet publishing. Tribune News Wire They've given us toilet-mouthed tots, dancing defecation defecation or bowel movement Elimination of feces from the digestive tract. Peristalsis moves feces through the colon to the rectum, where they stimulate the urge to defecate. and politically incorrect politically incorrect adj. Disregarding or unconcerned with political correctness. political incorrectness n. Adj. 1. comments about almost everything else in the known universe. So naturally, we're jonesing to ask: Is there anything that offends ``South Park'' creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker? `` `Full House,' '' says Parker in a phone interview hyping tonight's (10 p.m.) second-season opener of Comedy Central's popular cartoon, described by one wag as `` `Peanuts' on acid.'' (Somewhere, Timothy Leary is having a good chuckle.) ``House,'' the squeaky-clean former ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. show starring Bob Saget <noinclude></noinclude> Robert Lane Saget (born May 17, 1956) is an American actor, stand-up comedian, writer, director, producer, and game show host. He is well known for his role as Danny Tanner in the ABC sitcom Full House , ``really offends me,'' Parker continues. ``When you're not being offensive at all, when you're in completely good taste, that's no taste, because you're not doing anything. ``Anything being done that's original will be called bad taste for a while. All through history, it's been that way.'' (Or at least since, say, ``Married With Children'' or ``The Simpsons'' or ``Beavis & Butt-Head,'' all of which paved the way for ``Park.'') Like them or loathe them, the foul-mouthed third-graders of ``South Park'' are on a roll. The most recent new episode, ``Cartman's Mom Is Still a Dirty Slut "Cartman's Mom Is Still a Dirty Slut" is the 15th episode of South Park which aired on April 22, 1998. It is part two of a two-episode storyline, which concludes "Cartman's Mom Is a Dirty Slut". This episode was originally scheduled to be the premiere of Season Two. ,'' on April 22, became the highest-rated entertainment series episode in basic-cable history. Since then, Stone and Parker have inked a deal that will have them turning out the show through the year 2000, for a reported $15 million apiece. Season No. 2 launches with an episode about the circumcision circumcision (sûr'kəmsĭzh`ən), operation to remove the foreskin covering the glans of the penis. It dates back to prehistoric times and was widespread throughout the Middle East as a religious rite before it was introduced among the of baby Ike. Stone and Parker follow that up with ``Chickenlover,'' in which the town's chickens are - and we quote from the Comedy Central press release - ``being violated.'' Along with this season's 20 episodes, there's a ``South Park'' album coming this fall and a ``South Park'' video game set for 1999. Want more? Parker and Stone (but not Kyle or Cartman or the other twisted kiddies) are starring in ``BASEketball,'' a big-screen comedy due out July 31. Short stuff: All is not over for Ellen DeGeneres at ABC. Reruns of five episodes of the just-canceled ``Ellen'' will run in her old 9:30 p.m. Wednesday time slot beginning May 27. Also, two unaired originals will be broadcast over the summer. ... Fox Kids Network will debut the broadcast premiere of Will Smith's new video, ``Just the Two of Us,'' on June 20, in honor of Father's Day. ``Two,'' written by Smith as a tribute to his son, features appearances by Damon Wayans, Keenen Ivory Wayans Keenen Ivory Wayans (born June 8, 1958 in New York City, New York) is an American actor, comedian, director and writer best known as the host and creator of the FOX sketch comedy series In Living Color and Kenneth ``Babyface'' Edmonds with their sons. |
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