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Matt Stone
Matthew Richard Stone is an American actor, animator, writer, producer and songwriter. He studied film and mathematics at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he met his creative partner Trey Parker. As students, they made the independent film Cannibal! The Musical (1993). They found fame with the animated satire South Park and the film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999). Their satiric…
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entertainment · American actor, animator, and filmmaker (born 1971) · television director · film director · animator · singer-songwriter · screenwriter · film producer · television producer · voice actor · television actor · lyricist · also Matt Stone, Matter Stone, Stone
Born 26 May 1971 · Q44410
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2026· 11 entries
“We just felt sad for him, because he was caught in the middle of two things he loved, and he was a friend. He really loved South Park and he really loved Scientology, and I think he felt he had to quit.”
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“It has literally never happened. The Mormons haven”
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“s safe to assume that they veer more towards the left in their attitudes (in one South Park episode, Satan muses how he can win over the people on a particular issue.”
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“But in the 1990s, that was the heyday of independent films, so we thought,”
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“Americans have long understood that the rich get good lawyers and get off, while the poor suck eggs and do time... An arrestable class and an unarrestable class.”
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“The official church response was something along the lines of The Book of Mormon the musical might entertain you for a night, but the Book of Mormon,”
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BBC: Doctors remove 3.1kg stone from man's bladder and claim record
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Public attention spiked: 3,299 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.1× the usual 1,082, with 0 article edits.
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Bill Hader inducted Parker and Stone into the Television Hall of Fame
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Was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame
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2025· 2 entries
57 performers at Stone and Parker's Casa Bonita went on strike for at least three days after alleging that Parker and Stone paid them unfair wages and subjected them to a less safe working environment
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Stone and Parker announced a five-year agreement with Paramount+ to stream the series exclusively and to have 10 episodes produced per year
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2014· 1 entry
Awarded Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical for The Book of Mormon (2014).
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2012· 1 entry
South Park cut back from producing 14 episodes per year (seven in the spring and seven in the fall) to a single run of 10 episodes in the fall, to allow the duo to explore other projects the rest of the year
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2011· 3 entries
Awarded Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for The Book of Mormon (2011).
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Awarded Tony Award for Best Original Score for The Book of Mormon (2011).
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Released album “The Book of Mormon (Original Broadway Cast Recording)”.
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program for Margaritaville (2009).
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2008· 3 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program for Imaginationland (2008).
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In a ceremony officiated by Andrew Sullivan, and have two children together
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And the crew embarked on the first of a half-dozen workshops that would take place during the next four years
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2007· 2 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program for Make Love, Not Warcraft (2007).
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The duo, with the help of their lawyer Kevin Morris cut a 50–50 joint venture with Comedy Central on all revenue not related to television; this includes digital rights to South Park, as well as movies, soundtracks, T-sh
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2006· 2 entries
Awarded Peabody Awards (2006).
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Stone described himself as libertarian
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2005· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program for Best Friends Forever (2005).
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2004· 1 entry
“It ruined all the serious relationships in my life. You just become a different person, get completely stressed out and don”
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2003· 1 entry
And all episodes are available for free full-length on-demand legal streaming on the official South Park Studios website
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2002· 1 entry
The duo began work on Team America: World Police, a satire of big-budget action films and the war on terror
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2001· 3 entries
“I hate conservatives, but I really fucking hate liberals.”
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And they began a relationship shortly after
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Regarding his political views, "I hate conservatives, but I really fucking hate liberals
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2000· 2 entries
“s frattish, brattish behaviour, from farting on colleagues”
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Parker and Stone began plotting a sitcom centered on the winner of the 2000 presidential election
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1992· 1 entry
Parker, Stone, Jason McHugh and Ian Hardin founded a production company, Avenging Conscience, named for a film which the group hated
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1971· 2 entries
Born 1971-05-26.
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In Houston, Texas, the son of Sheila Lois (née Belasco) and Gerald Whitney Stone Jr
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