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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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[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Did the episode even say his name? If not the only way someone would think it was a parody of someone in particular would be to recognize someone acted like that.

My thought would be, John Doe doesn't act like that, so it must not be them. And whoever I thought did act like that, well.. it's not much of parody then. Just a shoe that fit. If it is okay to act like that, then why take it down? If it isn't okay to act like that, why would a person acting like that not have been reguarded as bad.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

In one single scene, referencing him by name as a throwaway joke. "The Charlie Kirk award for young master debaters"

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Nope, they just use the kids name. But it’s obvious it’s a take on him. (Even though any and all similarities are purely coincidental ofc )