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‘South Park’s Latest Streaming Migration Might Mean That These Classic Episodes End Up on the Ban List

Thanks to Paramount Global, South Park, Colorado could become a much safer place for secret fudge-packers.  

Starting July 1st, the classic and iconoclastic comedy series South Park may finally have one streaming home following years of a divided catalog and many millions of dollars in legal fees. Back in 2019, the company formerly known as WarnerMedia secured a $500 million deal with the corporation soon to be known as ViacomCBS to stream the immense and valuable South Park library to the American market, only for ViacomCBS to become Paramount Global, launch its own streaming service and start producing streaming-exclusive South Park specials while what eventually became Warner Bros. Discovery seethed.

The Rejected ‘SNL’ Sketch Sarah Silverman Wrote for Phil Hartman

In PostMortem, Sarah Silverman’s new Netflix special that serves as her meditation on mortality, she divulges with a straight face that “death is really hard for me, and that’s what makes me unique.”  

Even the passing of a simple housefly fills her with dread. The idea that she’d kill a small bug? Really difficult to process, and “almost impossible to make it look like a suicide.” She recently had a problem with too many houseflies buzzing her bedroom, and her partner, comedian Rory Albanese, offered to get rid of them. She reluctantly agreed, even though she knew the insects would be goners. 

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