South Park returned with a vengeance last night. After signing a $1.5 billion deal with Paramount for the next five years, the animated comedy's latest episode went ahead and skewered the network's recent controversies involving Donald Trump's 60 Minutes lawsuit and the ill-timed cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. It's a bold move—and one that the White House spokesperson just called "fourth-rate" in their initial response. You can read all about it below. – Josh Rosenberg, news and entertainment editor Plus: |
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The season 27 premiere spoofs the cancellation of The Late Show and CBS's settlement. |
There's a war going on over at Paramount. As the network seemingly folds under pressure to the demands of Donald Trump's administration, Paramount's very own shows are pushing back. On Wednesday night, South Park's season 27 premiere criticized everything going on at the network, including settling their lawsuit with the President, eliminating DEI initiatives, and cancelling The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The latest barrage against Paramount arrives less than a day after the network inked a reported $1.5 billion deal to become the exclusive streaming home for South Park for the foreseeable future. In a characteristically bold move, series creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone still took aim at the network by making Paramount and Trump both the butt—and tiny penis—of the joke in the season 27 premiere. |
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When my son Sam was seven or eight years old, he spent a good bit of time on weekends upside down on a floral-print armchair in our living room. In one hand, he held Batman; in the other, Robin. Surely the Joker lurked nearby. I would be sitting on the couch a few feet away, legal pad in my lap, writing. I'm a magazine journalist. Sam and I could stay locked in our spots for hours at a time. I was sure he was happy as could be, in the land of escape, good guys winning over bad. But it's etched in memory for Sam, what it was really like for him in that living room when he was young |
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I'm a Luddite, but a very discerning Luddite. A watch tells me when to stand up? No thanks. A TV that talks? I hate that. I haven't gotten a new iPhone in five years, because I don't think the cameras on the new one are important enough to give up the portability of my iPhone 12 Mini. This goes beyond tech, though. I'll never ditch my stiff-ass jeans for plasticky stretch chinos in the name of "comfort." And nothing in this world interests me less than travel-hack products. But I was an early adopter of thiese two-in-one duffel-slash-garment bags (before TikTok made them a Thing), and I've fallen for them hard. I've fallen so hard that I only use hard-sided luggage when I'm testing brands for this magazine, and usually it's my wife who's using those suitcases. (A Rimowa is the only thing that I'd break this stance for.) In the past two years, I've taken weeklong trips to Paris, Dubai, Seoul, and all over the U.S., and every time I only take one garment duffel. I can't stress enough how this has changed my traveling. |
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