South Park episode lampooning Charlie Kirk pulled from Comedy Central

Paul GlynnCulture reporterGetty ImagesMatt Stone (left) and Trey Parker pictured at San Diego Comedian-Con in JulyA South Park episode making enjoyable of right-wing activist and Donald Trump ally Charlie Kirk, who was shot lifeless on Wednesday whereas talking at a US occasion, has been pulled from Comedy Central however stays on Paramount+.Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s long-running animated sitcom recurrently lampoons main figures together with Trump.The episode, titled Obtained a Nut, premiered on 6 August and finds the character Clyde Donovan espousing offensive views on a podcast. He then units up a desk at South Park Elementary faculty with the intention to “destroy woke liberal college students”, inviting his classmates to seize the microphone and show him flawed.Kirk was killed on the age of 31 whereas internet hosting a university occasion for Turning Level USA, the organisation he co-founded, in what police are calling a focused taking pictures.Getty ImagesParamount owns each Paramount+ and Comedy Central which present South ParkIn the episode, one other South Park character, Eric Cartman, later fights with Donovan and takes his seat whereas sporting an outfit and coiffure just like Kirk.Donovan is finally awarded the “Charlie Kirk Award for Younger Grasp Debaters.”In accordance with studies within the US, it had been scheduled for a re-run on Wednesday night time however it has now been permantently pulled from Comedy Central’s TV rotation. It’s nonetheless obtainable on demand on Paramount+.The BBC has requested Stone and Parker for remark. Again in July, Kirk instructed Fox Information he had “kinda laughed” on seeing the teaser for the episode.He added he used to look at South Park when he was at highschool and took it as “a badge of honour” that he was now being depicted within the present, which he described as an “equal alternative offender.””It is kinda humorous, and it kinda goes to indicate the cultural impression and the resonance that our motion has been in a position to obtain. I have a look at this as a badge of honour,” he stated.A picture of Cartman dressed like Kirk seems on the social media accounts for The Charlie Kirk Present.Kirk had been talking with college students at Utah Valley College in Orem, as a part of his American Comeback tour, when he was killed.The FBI has launched new footage displaying the particular person suspected of killing him operating throughout a roof – from the place the deadly shot was fired – earlier than dropping to the bottom and crossing a street.Final month, South Park co-creator Parker made headlines with a brief joke apology to Trump for having ridiculed him within the opening present of their twenty seventh season.The episode made a number of crude jokes on the US president’s expense.After it aired, the White Home described South Park as a “fourth-rate” present that was “hanging on by a thread with uninspired concepts in a determined try for consideration”.Requested concerning the response throughout a panel at Comedian-Con Worldwide in San Diego, Parker stated, with a mock-serious face: “We’re terribly sorry.”