Comedy Central’s “South Park” continues to focus on President Trump, and viewers seem like loving it.
Rankings for the twenty seventh season of the irreverent and sometimes ribald animated sequence have surged, in keeping with knowledge from Nielsen and Comedy Central. The second episode, which premiered Aug. 6, scored 6.2 million viewers throughout the cable community and Paramount+, now the unique streaming dwelling for the sequence, over the primary three days.
The determine is 49% greater than the primary three days for the season premiere, which debuted on July 23. The second episode scored 1.56 million viewers on Comedy Central, making it the very best rated episode since 2018, with almost all of them within the 18 to 49 age group coveted by advertisers.
The brand new season of “South Park” launched amid the tensions between Comedy Central’s mum or dad Paramount and the Trump White Home. It additionally arrived after the present’s co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone scored an enormous $1.5-billion five-year take care of Paramount for the streaming rights, which beforehand belonged to HBO Max.
Paramount paid $16 million to settle a lawsuit over Trump’s declare that “60 Minutes” deceptively edited an interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris to assist her within the 2024 Election. First Modification consultants stated the go well with had no benefit. However the settlement was seen as essential for Skydance Media to get federal regulatory approval of its $8-billion acquisition of Paramount, which closed on Aug. 7.
“Late Show” host Stephen Colbert joked that the settlement was a bribe. Days later he was advised by CBS that his program was being canceled on the finish of the 2025-26 season as a consequence of monetary losses.
However “South Park” has not held something again in its comedic takes on Trump, presenting him bare and in mattress with the satan. Trump’s boast that Paramount is giving him $20 million in public service bulletins as a part of the “60 Minutes” settlement was additionally lampooned. (The corporate has not confirmed that such a deal was made totally free advert time).
Cartman the podcaster in Comedy Central’s “South Park.”
(Comedy Central)
The second episode confirmed the president wearing a white “Fantasy Island”-style go well with with Vice President J.D. Vance as his diminutive sidekick. U.S. Secretary of Homeland Safety Kristi Noem was portrayed with a melting face and a trigger-happy response to pet canine. Each had been had been working gags all through the espisode.
“South Park” common Cartman turned a conservative podcaster within the second episode and was seen sporting a coiffure just like that of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.
Parker and Stone will take a break this week as Comedy Central will air the very first “South Park” episode — 1997’s “Cartman Gets an Anal Probe” — on Wednesday as a part of a marathon for the sequence.
