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They brought us four foulmouthed Colorado kids on South Park, spoofed the President in the sitcom That's My Bush! and annoyed Sean Penn with the movie Team America: World Police. Ahead of the March 22 start of South Park's 10th season on Comedy Central, Stone, 34, left, and Parker, 36, talked to TIME's James Poniewozik about celebs, politics and the innate badness of children...
...sitcom, Emily's Reasons Why Not, HEATHER GRAHAM plays a self-help book editor who fails to absorb the soundest relationship advice. Unlike her character, Graham has picked up a few nuggets after dating actors like Ed Burns and Heath Ledger. "If he says, 'I'm not emotionally available right now,'" says the Boogie Nights star, "listen." Somehow we think men are a bit more available when you're Rollergirl...
...whenever I walk into anyone's house, they leave the TV on the entire time we're talking. That may, upon reflection, be a subtle hint I'm not catching. Still, I got some sense of how much they hated it when I left TIME to write for a sitcom. People thought I was selling out or too lazy for journalism or, like all good Americans, desperate to meet Ryan Seacrest...
That's when Marco Pennette, the creator of the show, informed me this wasn't a meeting. All sitcom writing, it turns out, is done by committee. One of the writers eventually says something that makes everybody laugh. Then Marco approves it, and a writers' assistant, who sits at a nearby desk and never talks, types it into the script, which appears on huge TVs on either side of our table. This, I was surprised to learn, is exactly how Shakespeare wrote...
...Because I don't have 11 slots and can't make a damn decision. But also because these sitcoms deserve to be considered together (as I did in this feature in September). Both shows proved a network sitcom could be both good and popular. Each show had a distinctive voice: on Earl, that of a good-at-heart petty crook (Jason Lee) trying to make his life right, on Chris, the hard-edged nostalgia of narrator Chris Rock, looking back on his childhood in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. They share another, less fortunate attribute: neither show has developed its characters much...