‘South Park’ Has Been Pissing Viewers Off for Decades. Then It Came for Trump

In the 28 years since South Park premiered, hundreds of its TV comedy peers have come and gone. But even the ones with similar longevity don’t have South Park ’s continued impact. Comedy Central’s foul-mouthed animated sitcom affirmed this again last month when it abruptly returned to air after a bitter streaming-rights renegotiation that got wrapped up in the elongated closing of the merger between Skydance Media and the show’s parent company, Paramount. The season premiere, “Sermon on the ’Mount,” debuted within 24 hours of creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone publicly signing a five-year, $1.5 billion deal with Paramount. The episode also called out the company directly and sharply, ripped into the recent cancellation of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, and went after