10 Times South Park Took Down A-List Celebrities!

Top 10 Times South Park Roasted the Most Famous People on the Planet

Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the funniest times Trey Parker and Matt Stone took aim at some of the world’s most well known figures on South Park.

#10: Mel Gibson

He’s one of the few “South Park” characters to have his real face used for his parody. When Stan and Kenny travel to Gibson’s house to get their money back for “The Passion of the Christ,” he promptly strips off and asks the boys to torture him – as you do. Now with the Braveheart blue face paint, Gibson chases the boys back to South Park where he insists that the whole town torture him. He’s hilariously unhinged and ends this brilliant episode by, well, doing this… And to think, this episode actually came out two years before Gibson’s reputation went down the tubes.

#9: Diddy

As one of the most well known, yet controversial names in hip hop, Diddy has been referenced more than once on South Park. Satan once tried to throw a rather extravagant birthday party only to find out that Diddy already did it. Another episode saw the show create some pretty hilarious made up names for Diddy’s kids. The most memorable Diddy roast however came in the episode titled “Douche and Turd” where the rapper and his posse terrorize Kyle in an attempt to get him to vote for a new school mascot. While the verdict is out on whether future seasons will tackle Diddy’s recent allegations, Trey Parker and Matt Stone clearly have had their sights set on him since the early 2000s.

#8: James Cameron

He’s directed some of the most successful movies of all time, set a record by traveling deeper into the Mariana Trench than anyone else, and has one hell of a catchy theme song. On a mission to raise the bar of humanity, which dropped to new lows after we accepted Honey Boo Boo, Cameron once again descends into the darkness of the ocean, encountering Randy Newman along the way. While everyone else seems bored of his exploits, we can’t get enough of them. Oh, and congrats on being the only Canadian in South Park who doesn’t look like…well, every other Canadian.

#7: Michael Jackson

Despite his alias of Michael Jefferson, it’s obvious who “South Park” is targeting here. The childish singer has made numerous appearances over the years, most notably in the episode when he moves to South Park to get away from the constant accusations. After his neglected son, Blanket, makes friends with Stan, Kyle, Kenny, and Cartman, Jackson tries to join the fun as a way of living out the childhood he missed. Even as a ghost or a hologram, the infantile Jackson can’t deal with what people say about him: ‘so ignorant’.

#6: Oprah Winfrey

James Frey originally released “A Million Little Pieces” as a memoir only to admit that it was a work of fiction. He appeared on Oprah before and after the news broke, and “South Park” decided to have a little fun. “A Million Little Fibers” turned Towelie into a Frey proxy, and when he appears on Winfrey’s show, things really take a turn for the worse. Certain private portions of Oprah’s anatomy are heavily featured throughout the episode, including one of them who decides to pull out a gun, take hostages, and make a series of demands. Not only does it mock Oprah’s mistake about Frey’s book, but takes a real jab at her personal choices.

#5: Barbra Streisand

The singer has been cited as Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s most hated celebrity and she certainly gets one of the more abstract treatments of any famous person. Depicted as “Mecha-Streisand,” she destroys South Park after obtaining an ancient artifact from the boys by torturing them with her singing. It takes the likes of Leonard Maltin, Sidney Poitier, and Robert Smith of The Cure to eventually destroy her with their Kaiju transformation abilities, but Tom Cruise and his fellow pissed-off celebrities later revive her. This time, only a duet with Neil Diamond can mollify the gargantuan robotic musical diva.

#4: R. Kelly

This is another quick cameo, but one that blends so well with the episode’s hilarious premise that we couldn’t bring ourselves to not include it. With Tom Cruise refusing to come out of the closet (literally, of course), the police get this R&B singer to try and persuade him. In a call-back to Kelly’s infamous opera, “Trapped in the Closet,” he tries to serenade Cruise to come out, only to end up locked up with him – and all this just adds another layer to the craziness of this episode. How big is that closet anyway?

#3: Saddam Hussein

A very different version of the real-life Saddam Hussein features heavily in “South Park’s” feature film as one of the main antagonists. The former President of Iraq is given a whiny, high-pitched voice as well as the typical split-head appearance usually saved for Canadian characters. His first appearance saw him try to take over Canada, but a mass fart killed him. This sent him to hell where he presumably began his romantic relationship with Satan. All in all, his was a fitting re-imagination of one the most hated men of the 21st century – well, fitting for “South Park” in any case.

#2: Kanye West

Never have fish sticks been so funny. Well, unless you’re Yeezy. Apparently, Kanye is the only one who doesn’t understand the childish gag as he goes on a murderous rampage in his attempt to have the joke explained. He eventually sets his ego aside and accepts his life as a gay fish. Now content, he wastes no time mingling with other sea-faring creatures. However, he eventually decides to marry a hobbit. This depiction perfectly captures the rapper’s egotistical nature, while throwing in just enough trademark “South Park” randomness to make this the ultimate celebrity send-up.

#1: Tom Cruise

All aspects of Cruise’s controversial personality and lifestyle are heavily parodied in the classic and controversial episode “Trapped in the Closet.” When he’s led to believe that Stan is the reincarnation of Scientology founder, L. Ron Hubbard, Cruise sycophantically seeks his approval. He’s utterly devastated when Stan admits he’s not as good an actor as some others in Hollywood, so he barricades himself away and waits for various celebs to attempt to lure him out of the literal closet. The real-life Cruise had a rerun of the episode banned, an act which likely fueled subsequent shots at Tom in later South Park episodes.


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