Matt Stone and Trey Parker at the The Tonight Show with Jay Leno may 15 (1998). Trey Parker wants to clear the air between him and the other guest Brooke Shield as a misunderstanding took place at a recent party they both went to.
Last I checked they are among the richest people in media. approx 700 million between them! They signed a deal to retain the digital rights to South Park before the internet exploded. Now they're printing money
“What the hell is going on?” is such a perfect display of their inability to leave things unspoken. If something exists and needs to be called out and made fun of they will do it every time. It’s honesty and it’s why they are the best.
Beautiful watching these guys having their then-new show being talked about as the hot new thing that hasn't really made them super successful yet, only to know that the show has lasted almost 25 years since this interview was done and became one of the greatest shows ever made!
It was already extremely successful a couple of years after that interview. I think the peak of its popularity was around season ~4. It's still great because they take it slow and don't release trash (usually).
@@Perrylayne105 Are they?! Is South Park and Trey Parker and Matt Stone worth THAT MUCH?! I mean, I guess it WOULDN’T SURPRISE ME that much because despite the mega-cultural phenomenon that is South Park, they have ALSO produced a Broadway musical (The Book of Mormon) that went on to become a MAJOR SUCCESS and SWEEP a bunch of Tony awards.
I mean, comparatively to A LOT of the celebrities they’ve LAMPOONED on South Park, Brooke Shields got off PRETTY EASY (they just made her the butt of a “fart joke” in the movie and that was about the end of it, lol).
There's even a behind the scenes photo of Brooke behind an unaware Jim Norton, and she's crouching down and mocking his posture and chin, and she NAILED IT.
@@regaljohnston3001 Says the desperate man child who wants to sound cool and bad ass by using a slur but isnt man enough to just use it. Fucking loser.
The episode they describe always makes me cry at the end, bc the way the two brothers love each other. I think it's one of Kyle and Ike's greatest moments.
It was just as insane, it was just more like the quiet neighbor insane; now it's like after you found out the neighbor had 12 women chained up in his basement the whole time.
I think it was literally the exact same if not worse, maybe slightly better but it really doesn’t mean anything this type of shit is cyclical. In the 60s there was all this “fuck the man” rebellion with culture, and being free and rebelling against what the government said or whatever, then in the 80s it kind of looped back to where they were back to misrepresenting lyrics and pretending they’re “endorsing” these things, and if you need proof of that watch the countless clips of Zappa arguing with different people, I think the crossfire one is a good example Bc they’re taking lyrics from a prince song and saying he’s advocating incest, and then those people ended up succeeding in putting parental advisory stickers on everything and those are still there today. I feel like a lot of popular music and movies have been pretty soulless and whatnot for a while, and there’s always people who want to act like it’s the death of art it’s the opposite, because of that there’s countless rappers or film makers etc who are doing weird unique things nobody in the mainstream is doing Bc that ALWAYS happens that’s how counter culture starts. Mark my words in the next 5-10 years it’ll probably go back to being not as insane, or more insane who knows
@@Studeb anyone who’s done acid like more then 10 times realizes that really isn’t that weird. I used to be addicted to the shit and COULDNT go to work NOT on it and I never got noticed even once Bc it doesn’t make you look as weird as you feel like it does you don’t have red and glossy eyes like weed, but they have mentioned coming down in the crowd and it sucking which is understandable
And I thought they were clearing the air for that clip from the South Park Movie but it was released the next year after this interview ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CxIiJEy0yWc.html
@@onewiththeragingwind6730 They're still smart, but they know they'd offend more people more easily. Back then they were almost complete unknowns so they could get away with it easily as "the new kids in the block".
I watched an interview with trey and matt where they said they're really embarrassed by how they looked back then and ashamed of their sense of humour and can't stand older episodes of South Park, plus never actually thought they'd last 😂 pair of absolute legends and humble as shit. Always saddened me to know they really didn't like Team America though, that films gold! If only they knew how great they actually are.
@@joelwatt7356 Maybe that's what I heard 🤔 I do recall one of them stating they hate thinking about it and how they both drove each other nuts, mainly due to how difficult the process was but Matt Stone openly said it was the worst thing he's done
Everything about this is amazingly weird 90s vibes. Brooke and jay being themselves. The band playing frank zappa and the South Park theme. And of course Matt and treys outfits lmao
"We aren't making gazillions of dollars." 20 years later. 935 million dollar deal with viacom for movies and 500 million dollars from Warner Bros for streaming rights.
No, that's 90s hair, not a replica of '80s hair. Almost nobody was doing their hair like that in the '80s, especially not Matt, that's like 1972 hair and Trey's is very much mid-90s hair.
@@jamescarter3196Exactly. It’s so obvious which people didn’t live through certain times? Because they can’t see the obvious differences in cultures and styles between decades? Their look on this show. Would blend more with current fashion than 80s! As someone born in 79. And who was a teenager pretty much the entire 90s decade. I can easily distinguish the years by how they looked. Because like 1/4 of dudes in the mid-late 90s looked and dressed like that. Even those ridiculously loud button up shirts. We’re actually in style for that period. My buddy had a bunch of them. With everything from 🔥, to dragons on his shirts!😂😂
They were practically still newbies in terms of fame. They always view themselves as just regular guys, even today. You rarely see them in fancy suits or high fashion clothes, except when they’re promoting The Book of Mormon on Broadway. Most of the time, they’re wearing clothes you can find at thrift and discount stores.
It's funny how they're all poking fun how Trey and Matt are "rich", and now they're worth more than anyone in the room at the time of this interview, including Jay Leno.
Bill Hicks is the best meta comedian of all time. What if a loser wore a trench coat and complained about the government and got so angry he forgot to make a joke.
@@sebastianwhalin743 Are you actually telling me that Matt & Trey didn't know the contents of their own movie because it hadn't released yet? They dissed her in the movie... that's an action by them... not her. You comment implies that AFTER this video, they subsequently 'dissed' her... but they had already made the movie.
Once my best friends and I took an 8th of mushrooms and watched South Park. Lord have mercy it is the greatest show on earth. The textures were intense....the music..the eyes 👀. It was the episode “The Human Centipad” and the episode at the water park with the minorities wearing shirt in the pool and everyone was peeing in the park turning the water into toxic pee that was killing people. It was so intense I’m giggling just remembering it
26 years later still going and one of the biggest shows that's ever existed. i know there's a huge team that they've built around them, but the whole thing stands on the shoulders of these two.
Jesus, this show was the no.1 entertainment show at prime-time and the roster included 5 mins of trying to get some guy to wiggle his ears? And Leno got a Ferrari collection out of this? Talk about a hustle
To make it better Sal Marquez is in Jay's band at the time (trumpeter on the original Cosmic Debris track), he was in Zappa's band in the early-mid 70s
To make it better Sal Marquez is in Jay's band at the time (trumpeter on the original Cosmic Debris track), he was in Zappa's band in the early-mid 70s
Around this time, they signed a deal with CC which allowed them to retain all digital rights to South Park. Then the internet blew up and streaming became the norm. According to google they are worth approx 700 mil each. HowBowDat
Yeah, that's why they were able to buy Casa Bonita and spend like 50 million on renovating it for the hell out of it. It's going to take a long time to recoup the cost, if they ever.
Crazy to think that now with Book of Mormon and the recent South Park deal they’ll presumably each have more money than Jay and Brooke combined. Like $51k a year or something like that, after paying their agents.
@@jakes1677 IF he liquidated his assets, Leno would be on top of this contest, for sure. His super rare car collection is worth far more than he paid for it now.
@@TRoller927 ha ok? i'm not fighting at all dude, theyre awesome. when did i say they didnt deserve it. chill dude!..literally love those dudes..i'm just saying its nuts for the fact of how much $ that is in general, how much money the creators of a cartoon as such have made along with how big they got, etc...its all good...
I knew the kid who played Ike at this time, I was two years younger then him it could’ve been me!!! My dad worked on the show the first season or two and the movie and now the last few seasons and it currently
It is bizarre how many audio dropouts are in this video. It sounds like a censoring machine just kinda went crazy and deleted a ton of dialogue at random and I can't quite imagine why unless there's that much concern that it would be deleted otherwise. That Mike White guy sure seemed like he was full of booze and coke and himself, what a frigging buffoon.
People should have known right out of the gate that these guys were up to something huge. Just so far from the average Hollywood narcissists who totally revolutionized television
“Dont drink kids. Yeah, so, dont drink kids”. Matt Parker & Trey Stone What are we supposed to drink, adults? No thanks. I’d rather drink water and write dieorehea jokes on tha’ west syyyyyide.
why do I get the same feeling of how the interviews go with Nojumper or Vladd with the rappers nowa days asking them how much money they make and the smart ones dont say because the IRS is watching----
