Saddam Hussein has been forced to watch South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, according to the film’s co-creator Matt Stone.The former Iraqi leader is portrayed in the movie as a homosexual who is in a relationship with the devil, and Stone claims the prisoner is being forced to watch it "repeatedly" as he is held by US Marines.The South Park movie was banned on release in Iraq seven years ago.Stone reveals: "I have it on pretty good information from the Marines on detail in Iraq that they showed him the movie. That’s really adding insult to injury. I bet that made him really happy."
Comedy Central, which leaped into its archives and reaired a South Park episode lampooning Tom Cruise when the episode was nominated for an Emmy, announced over the weekend that it will rerun an episode that was aimed at Mel Gibson on Wednesday night. The episode, which aired in 2004, is called "The Passion of the Jew," a take-off on Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ and at one point implies that Gibson is an anti-Semite. Meanwhile, TV Guide is reporting that Icon Productions, Mel Gibson’s production company, is planning to battle ABC if it refuses to proceed with a planned miniseries that deals in part with the Holocaust — or if it engages another production company to take on the project.
Comedy Central has scheduled a July 19 airdate for "Trapped in the Closet," the South Park episode that spoofed Tom Cruise and Scientology, Variety reports. The controversial outing premiered in November 2005, then was pulled from the repeat roster in May supposedly because a displeased Cruise threatened to not pimp M:i:III for Paramount — which, like Comedy Central, is owned by Viacom. Speaking of Tom, his spokesperson has given the Associated Press a statement regarding baby Suri, who rather conspicuously has yet to have her own coming-out party: "If and when [Cruise and Katie Holmes] do make a decision [to show Suri to the public], it will be at their discretion and not anybody else’s."
