‘South Park’ to Back Off Mocking Trump:
“They’re already going out and doing the comedy,” Parker adds. “It’s not something you can make fun of.”
“We’re having our head blown off like everybody else,” Stone says.
“It’s tricky and it’s really tricky now as satire has become reality,” Parker notes. “We were really trying to make fun of what was going on [last season] but we couldn’t keep up. What was actually happening was way funnier than anything we could come up with. So we decided to just back off and let [politicians] do their comedy and we’ll do ours.”
Reality.. comedy.. fiction. It’s tough to tell the different between them anymore.