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Comedy Central pulls ‘South Park’ episode mocking Charlie Kirk after assassination (nypost.com)

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Comedy Central has pulled a controversial “South Park” episode that parodied Charlie Kirk after the conservative activist was gunned down at a Utah college on Wednesday.

The Paramount Skydance-owned network quietly removed the rerun of the episode “Got a Nut” from its cable lineup Wednesday night, just hours after Kirk, 31, was shot and killed while speaking at Utah Valley University.

Instead of airing Season 27, Episode 2 — in which Eric Cartman adopts Kirk’s mannerisms and appearance for a satirical college debate podcast — Comedy Central slotted in Episode 1 from the same season.

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[–] wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I guess they never saw the Streisand effect episode

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 months ago

The episode isn't permanently gone, they just didn't play the rerun on the day he was killed.

[–] qfe0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 months ago

They don't care, they just don't want to be seen as doing nothing.