Comedy Central Pulls Scheduled Repeat of Recent South Park Episode Following Charlie Kirk Assassination

Comedy Central has pulled the scheduled repetition of a caller South Park occurrence pursuing the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

The Hollywood Reporter said Comedy Central pulled the occurrence from a showing connected the nighttime of Wednesday, September 10, aft Kirk, an state of President Trump, was changeable astatine a Utah assemblage earlier that day.

The occurrence successful question is Season 27, Episode 2, titled Got a Nut. In it, Eric Cartman cosplays arsenic Charlie Kirk, becomes a right-wing podcaster and issues messages akin to those utilized by Kirk successful the past arsenic helium "masterdebaters" assemblage graduates. Cartman adjacent dishes retired an grant called 'The Charlie Kirk Award for Young Masterdebaters.'

Cartman arsenic "Charlie Kirk" takes connected an termination activistic successful tonight's South Park: pic.twitter.com/HYG7OtFJX5

Kirk had responded to the occurrence astatine the clip successful a TikTok post, calling it “hilarious” and adjacent saying “South Park gets this right. I deliberation they've been watching a batch of Charlie Kirk videos.” He added: “We person a bully tone astir being made amusive of. This is each a success, this is each a win. We arsenic conservatives, we person heavy skin, not bladed skin, and you tin marque amusive of america and it doesn’t matter.”

Now, according to THR, immoderate MAGA conservatives are hitting retired astatine South Park, drafting a enactment betwixt the amusement and Kirk’s murder. Comedy Central is yet to comment. At the clip of this article’s publication, Got a Nut is inactive disposable connected Paramount+, but that whitethorn alteration successful the coming hours.

South Park’s caller episodes person drawn immoderate of the series' best-ever ratings, arsenic good arsenic planetary attention, for their nary holds barred depiction of President Trump. Episodes are taking longer to produce, too, with conscionable 4 arriving successful the 8 weeks since Season 27's debut.

Charlie Kirk speaks astatine Utah Valley University connected September 10, 2025 successful Orem, Utah. Kirk, laminitis of Turning Point USA, was speaking astatine his "American Comeback Tour" erstwhile helium was changeable successful the cervix and killed. Photo by Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune/Getty Images.

South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone marque each occurrence week-by-week, which makes for a chaotic accumulation but topical shows. But they person switched to a bi-weekly docket for this season. The elongated accumulation clip allows the brace much country to enactment connected each episode, thing Paramount is reportedly blessed with.

It’s worthy noting that during their San Diego Comic-Con 2025 panel, which took spot the time aft the Trump-skewering play opener aired, Parker said the brace were unsure what the adjacent occurrence would be, revealing the determination was “super stressful.”

All eyes are connected South Park aft its Season 27 premiere went truthful hard connected Trump that the White House issued a connection successful response. The F.C.C. precocious approved Skydance’s $8 cardinal merger with Paramount, which had needed Trump medication approval. However, Parker and Stone person a big-money woody of their own: a reported $1.5 cardinal declaration to marque 50 episodes of South Park implicit 5 years for Paramount.

Image credit: Comedy Central / Paramount.

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