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‘South Park’ Fans Thank Trey Parker and Matt Stone for the Resignation of Paramount’s Streaming CEO

If South Park wasn’t behind the latest restructuring of Paramount Global’s struggling streaming business, then why is the show's new boss named George Cheeks?

Late last month, President Donald “Saddam Hussein” Trump’s Federal Communications Commission finally approved the acquisition deal that will place Paramount under the umbrella of David Ellison’s company Skydance Media. After appeasing the President by paying out a $16 million bribe, er, “settlement” over his fight with 60 Minutes and firing one of Trump’s most prominent comedic critics by canceling The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Paramount is finally in the Commander-in-Chief’s good graces, and they can begin the process of reshaping the corporate infrastructure to fit Ellison’s new pro-Trump, anti-free-speech business model.

How Hard Is Dale to Watch in the ‘King of the Hill’ Revival?

King of the Hill premiered in January of 1997. In all kinds of ways, that was a different world: before 9/11; before the forever wars in the Middle East; before smartphones; before birtherism; before QAnon; before COVID; before January 6th; before a lot of other world events that became red meat for conspiracy theorists. When viewers first met Dale Gribble (voice of Johnny Hardwick), his anti-government beliefs were so quaint they were easy to laugh at, but many may now be wondering how he plays in Season 14. 

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