'South Park' Makes Fun of Carr's Kimmel Comments
Animated comedy show South Park’s episode Wednesday included segments lampooning FCC Chairman Brendan Carr and the controversy over the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live! In the episode, a caricature of Carr falls down some stairs, gets buried in soiled cat…
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litter and suffers violent diarrhea from eating poisoned soup. He then ends up in a hospital bed with broken bones and toxoplasmosis, which a doctor character says will take away Carr’s “freedom of speech.” The cartoon’s version of Vice President JD Vance then threatens Carr, telling him there's “an easy and a hard way” -- the same words Carr used when demanding that Kimmel be suspended or preempted last week. The FCC didn’t respond to a request for comment on the episode. South Park streams on Paramount Plus, which is owned by Skydance Paramount. The FCC has an open news distortion proceeding against Paramount-owned WCBS-TV New York, and Carr has said the agency will be scrutinizing the conduct of Skydance's broadcast stations (see 2508070027).