Charlie Kirk’s Producer Tells Paramount To Stop Burying South Park Episode Satirizing MAGA Star: ‘He Loved’ It
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Charlie Kirk’s producer and friend is pushing Paramount to return a South Park episode satirizing the MAGA star to reruns, saying Kirk “loved” being featured on the show.
Andrew Kolvet, the producer of Kirk’s show, took to X this week to make clear that Kirk would not approve of burying the South Park episode mocking his debates at Turning Point USA events. The 31-year-old conservative activist was shot and killed last week during an event at a Utah college campus.
“Hey [Paramount], as someone who can speak with some authority on this, Charlie loved that he was featured in South Park. He told me many times. He would want the episode back up,” Kolvet wrote on X.
Comedy Central, which is owned by Paramount, pulled a rerun of the season 27 episode Got a Nut and replaced it with a different episode following Kirk’s murder. The episode features character Eric Cartman imitating Kirk and launching a podcast modeled after Kirk’s, where he directly debates people. The episode ends with Cartman attending the “Charlie Kirk Award for Young Master Debaters.”
The rerun was pulled, but the episode remains available on streaming. Some MAGA followers blasted the show following Kirk’s murder. The South Park episode first aired in August, just a few weeks before Kirk’s assassination.
As Kolvet said, Kirk made it no secret that he liked being featured on South Park, a show that has earned some pushback from conservatives and even the White House over brutal depictions of President Donald Trump (currently in a relationship with Satan on the show) and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem (depicted as a bloodthirsty serial killer of puppies).
In a Fox News interview, Kirk called South Park satirizing him a “badge of honor” and he even posted clips from the show to social media.
“We as conservatives should be able to take a joke, we shouldn’t take ourselves so seriously – that’s something that the left has always done,” Kirk told Fox about the episode, adding, “I think it’s kind of funny and it kind of goes to show the cultural impact and the resonance that our movement has been able to achieve. So I look at this as a badge of honor.”
