Goin’ all the way down to South Park…
Lengthy-running animated sequence “South Park” is legendary for pushing the envelope and infrequently inflicting controversy with its jokes – however one author thinks that they went too far.
Author Pam Brady instructed Fox Information Digital that her worst joke for the present “was based on an old frat joke.”
“One character said, ‘I don’t trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn’t die,’” she recalled. “I remember it was just like the most misogynistic frat boy joke that I’d heard of at that point… but we’re reclaiming it.”
Brady was a producer on “South Park” from 1997 to 2008, together with the 1999 film “South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.” She additionally labored with “South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone on the 2004 film “Team America: World Police.”
The joke she referred to is alleged in that film, by the children trainer, Mr. Garrison. The film was nominated for an Oscar (for “best original song”).
Brady by no means felt like “South Park” was “the old boys” community behind the scenes.
“I think there’s always improvement to be made,” she instructed the outlet.
“I mean, women are 51% of the population, so it should always be 50% [female in writers’ rooms]. But I’ve been really lucky, you know, ‘South Park’s’ writers’ room has always been 50-50, male-female… but the best part about Hollywood is that no one’s keeping women out.”
Brady, who additionally co-created the 2016 Netflix sequence “Lady Dynamite,” mentioned that she has seen comedy tradition change since “South Park” first premiered in 1997. The present at the moment has twenty six seasons and over 300 episodes.
“I do think you have to be more careful now, what you say. ‘South Park’ had an episode where they represented… I’m not going to say what it was, but it was just someone you wouldn’t want to represent on a show… and you could do it 20 years ago, but you can’t do it now,” Brady mentioned.
The producer and author added, “I’m sort of of two minds about it, because I think the idea of cancel culture and stuff you can’t say… I think times change and I think sometimes it’s good that you go, ‘oh, you shouldn’t do something that’s like, a racist phrase that your grandparents would use.’ And that’s sort of just evolving.”
She mentioned she doesn’t suppose comedy has been “stifled,” however “you need to be smarter to make a joke” as we speak.
Brady, who additionally co-created the upcoming Prime Video animated sequence “Number One Happy Family USA,” mentioned that comedy is about, “knowing that someone is not attacking you.”
To earn “that [audience] trust, it’s changed,” she added.
“But I think that’s the fun of it…Nobody wants to feel bad and, you know, we don’t want to do stuff that just makes people feel bad.”
