Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Tuesday, July 29th.

Today on Forbes, South Park's creators are now billionaires.

If you piss off South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, they will make you pay,

both financially and satirically.

On July 2nd, after Comedy Central delayed the season 27 premiere of the show,

because Paramount, the network's parent company, was locked in a tense negotiation for its streaming

rights in the midst of a month's long acquisition of Paramount by David Ellison's Skydance Media,

Parker and Stone issued a statement on

X.com and let it rip, with the duo writing, quote, this merger is a shit show and it's

effing up South Park. They use the actual expletive. Both transactions were resolved last week,

as Parker and Stone agreed last Monday to a five-year,

$1.5 billion streaming deal that will bring South Park to Paramount Plus globally.

And last Thursday, the FCC officially approved the Skydance acquisition.

The deal cements the duo's place as the highest paid TV showrunners in Hollywood, and made

the 55-year-old Parker and the 54-year-old Stone billionaires, worth an estimated $1.2 billion each.

But the new agreement, which will pay the pair at least $250 million per year, didn't end

Paramount's headaches.

In South Park's season premiere, which aired last Wednesday, Donald Trump is depicted in bed with Satan, and Jesus has seen warning the show's young protagonists about the dangers of

provoking him.

The Jesus character says, quote, you guys saw what happened to CBS?

Well, guess who owns CBS? Paramount. You really want to end up

like Colbert? The comedically fearless Parker and Stone now enter television's rare

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