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CARSON: we're sitting here with the guys, trey and matt, the creators of "south park" whats up guys?
TREY: hey...
MATT: nothing..
C: you guys must be like the busiest, two guys-by the way did you like light spectical we had here?
T: it was amazing!
M: spectacular..
C: wasnt that incredible?
T: my hearts just beating fast..
C: are you back to your composure now? you okay?
M: we're in after glow right now.
C: if you need anything let me know..we can postpone the interview. you guys must be like the two busiest guys in the world. cause the press pack that i got on you was just ridiculous. you've done like, in fact i think its safe to say we are the last people to get you to talk about south park
M: yeah..exactly
C: so are you getting sick and tired of talking about it yet?
M: sick and tired... we've said everything about this show like-
T: we're fed up. no its cool its been crazy. i mean we were..before we even premiered there was so much press and we don't know why. but it was just all over.
M: we were in time and newsweek and usa today before the show had even shown..you know..even premiered. so we're kinda used to it by now.
C: right, well take us back. i mean i heard "spirit of christmas" was rotationg kinda like the jerky boys tape. it was just underground, a lot of colleges had it, people were dubbing it off. george clooney dubbed off like 200 versions.
M: i think more like 700
C: oh yeah? he was actually like a guest personality voice on..isnt he the gay dog?
T: yeah he was the voice of the gay dog. he barked.
C: very good. so tell us about the spirit of christmas, why you did it. it wasn't meant to be this big was it not?
T: no. it was just a christmas card we made for a friend and he gave us some money we needed desparately for christmas presents and said i just want a video christmas card and we made that and we didnt even put our names on it cause we didnt think anything of it. and he sent it out to like 40 friends but then they sent it out to friends and it just got..
C: i wanna talk about how it finally ended up oncomedy cental but lets go ahead and take a look at "south park" here it is.
(south park clip)
C: kenny always dies. whats the deal with that?
T: yeah he was killed by mir space station there..
M: yeah..
C: and then he's just back the next time, you dont really know how or why.
T: yeah..
M: he just has to die..
T: we dont really wanna do a show about 3 kids.
C: right
T: in "spirit of christmas" we made it and kenny died and so when they wanted the show we figured well maybe we should just bring kenny back and we'll just kill him again
M: yeah and we did the first show and he died, and we wanted him back so we did it again.
C: so when the show went to comedy central. how much- you know like the spirit of christmas has like the f word its got all that kind stuff, how much of that was a role, like even wanting to do it in the series if it was gonna be not as funny?
M: well, i mean we had offers from places that we could talk like that. like hbo and showtime and stuff like that..but it ended up just like comedy central like had the shows that we liked to watch like old monty pythons, absolutely fabulous, and it just kinda fit. our show seemed to fit there.
T: plus speaking like that is funny but like over the course the year of the series it would get--it better be more than that. so we decided to try to get edgier in like the story lines and everything.
C: we're gonna go to our video arcade. tv arcade sponsered by the fine folks at intel. we're gonna go to michigan state university and i've got the guys here from south park. you got a question for them?
CALLER: yeah, we noticed you guys have a lot of cows in the videos there and scenes and we wanted to know if you had any influence behind that?
M: by cows?
C: why so many cows was the question?
T: well cause its actually in south park, in colorado, its just like there cowtowns
C: its a real town right?.
T: yeah well, south park is a county actually, but its an area where the UFO's and cow mutilations and all that stuff goes down so..its just a very cowish town. lots of cows.
C: well listen, thanks for being here. stay busy and we should mention there's a website up?
M and T: right
C: and there's dolls coming out?
M and T: yeah
C: all kinds of stuff
T: and our big halloween episode is on wednesday.
C: okay cool, thanks for being here. matt,..
M: thanks man
C: trey..
T: thanks a lot..