You know, I'm gonna give you a history lesson.

We got some dumb-ass motherfuckers floating around this country.

Stop laughing.

And when I do, start fucking.

Also, y'all did some nasty-ass jokes on my ass, too.

Funny jokes and unfunny jokes come out of the same birth.

You fucking guys are unbelievable.

Why are you laughing?

Evening, everybody. Welcome to Why Are You Laughing, a history of comedy podcast.

And today, I am pleased to introduce to you, Family Guy versus South Park, the cartoon

wars, Trey Parker and Matt Stone of South Park, take on Seth McFarlane and the people over at Family Guy.

This is a very interesting one.

I think I alluded to it probably in our Simpsons episode.

These are kind of the big three.

The Simpsons, South Park, and Family Guy, I would say,

are the big three in animation, certainly over the last 30 years at least.

And I, you know, I wanted to get into South Park and I wanted to talk about Trey and Matt because I think they're interesting characters.

And I thought, ah, family guy might be a good one to do too, because it's gone such a similar trajectory as the Simpsons.

And that's when it dawned on me why not just do uh we'll

get to both of those later but for now why don't we start with family guy versus south park

because i thought it was a very interesting war and i've never seen a destruct deconstruction of a

product in the way that south Park was able to do it.

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