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Parker is from a small town in Colorado, and Stone grew up in a Denver suburb; they met when they attended film school at the state university in Boulder. In 1994 Brian Graden, who was an executive at Fox, saw their live-action film Cannibal: The Musical, and the connection that led to South Park was made. Graden says he couldn't get anyone interested in Cannibal, South Park or other ideas he tried to develop with Parker and Stone, among them a TV series about two apes who hang upside down and sing. To help his proteges...
...everybody wants a piece of Parker and Stone. All the networks are interested in whatever they do for their next TV show, as are various production companies ranging from DreamWorks to Warner Bros. to Fox to Paramount. But Comedy Central isn't about to let them go. The network is renegotiating their contract upwards, and will make the change retroactive to South Park's debut. It is also seeking a long-term commitment from the pair...
Meanwhile, October Films will bring out Orgazmo, a feature-film porn parody written, directed and starred in by Parker, and produced and acted in by Stone. They are writing the screenplay of the prequel to Dumb and Dumber for New Line Cinema, and they are acting in BASEketball, a film by David Zucker, part of the team that made the Airplane! movies, which Stone and Parker greatly admire. BASEketball is shooting now, and Zucker says of his stars, "They're up all hours. They work all day on this movie, then they go and write South Park. They have people...
Graden says Parker and Stone are two of the sweetest people he has ever met, and others use the same words about them. They seem to be easygoing and unpretentious. Despite their irreverence, they aren't a pair of would-be Lenny Bruces living on comedy's dangerous edge. Whatever one's view of South Park, it's hard to dislike two filmmakers whose greatest heroes are the members of Monty Python and who talk about them with such enthusiasm. "To this day, when our heads are getting a little big," Stone says...
...Park phenomenon is a benign one. Nevertheless, there is a problem: while the show has many virtues, it should be smarter and more surprising. It's a pretty stale idea now to think that Streisand and David Hasselhoff and MacGyver are instant punch lines, and in general Parker and Stone express too much fascination with cheesy pop culture, a subject whose interest has been exhausted. As for their "satire," is it really so very clever to give Jesus a public-access show? Were not stoned sophomores dreaming up this sort of thing 20 years ago? Most troubling is that...