While they will always be known as “the South Park guys,” Trey Parker and Matt Stone have more to their name than that.
Their film Team America: World Police has cemented its legacy as the funniest marionette action movie/post-911 geopolitical commentary, with an unforgettable anthem.
They teamed with Frozen and Coco songwriter Robert Lopez to push the limits of Broadway’s sensibilities with the raunchy and lovable The Book of Mormon, which garnered multiple Tony Awards for Parker and Stone.
And who could forget their live-action leading roles in David Zucker’s sports spoof BASEketball? While most of their projects took the duo to other mediums, from video games to most recently a restaurant, in 2001, Parker and Stone created a second television show that, at times, is stranger than South Park.
This is mainly because the leading man is the then-recently elected President George W.
Bush.
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