
South Park History
Who's responsible for this?
Blame it all on Trey Parker and Matt Stone! Well, them and the crew. Trey and Matt created the whole South Park idea in 1995, but that's discussed later. Here's some info on the two:
Trey Parker-Originally a student of music, director Trey Parker transferred from the
prestigious Berklee School of Music to Colorado University to study film, and it
was there he gave birth to his twisted brainchild "Cannibal: The Musical".
Parker not only wrote, produced, directed and played the leading role in
the film, he also wrote the songs and collaborated on the score. He is 27.

How did South Park originate?
In December of 1995, Brian Graden, then a Fox TV exec with a
taste for edgy material, wanted to send out a video holiday card. He
remembered a demented fable called "The Spirit of Christmas"
animated with construction paper and sick jokes by two broke
twentysomethings in his stable of eccentric talent. He paid them to do
an upgraded version of the twisted little 'toon - in which Santa Claus
and Jesus kung-fu fight each other while foulmouthed youngsters
cheer them on - and sent tapes all over Hollywood. George Clooney
got on and made copies for 150 of his close personal friends.
bootlegs spread to New York, Silicon Valley, the Internet. The band
Tool showed "Spirit" between sets. The absence of credits on the
video only added to its underground mystique.
Two and a half years later, "The Spirit of Christmas" has made its
inexorable way to the mainstream as South Park, an animated series
starting next month on Comedy Central. The series' creators, Trey
Parker and Matt Stone, are no longer broke. Before accepting
Comedy Central's offer, they turned down development deals by
almost every major studio: New Line, Warner Brothers,
DreamWorks. One producer offered them "Barney: The Movie," a
ludicrous assignment for the two guys responsible for the darkest
Christmas cartoon ever made. But it's a mark of how fast they've
gone from nobodies who couldn't get their phone calls returned to
two of the hottest "creatives" in Hollywood. As Parker says, "It's
been quite a ride."

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