Matt Stone

Matthew Richard "Matt" Stone (born May 26, 1971) is an American animator, screenwriter, director, producer, voice actor, musician and actor. Along with Trey Parker, he is one of the creators of the critically-acclaimed animated television series, South Park.

Stone was born in Houston, Texas, the son of Sheila Lois (née Belasco), a homemaker, and Gerald Whitney Stone, an economics professor (who share the first names of South Park characters Gerald and Sheila Broflovski). Stone's mother is Jewish and his father is of Irish descent, and Stone "grew up agnostic"[1] and considers himself ethnically Jewish.[2] He has a sister named Rachel. Stone was raised in the Denver area, then moved to Littleton, Colorado. He lived near, but did not attend Columbine High School, contrary to popular belief (although he did take the SAT there)[citation needed], rather he went to Heritage High School, in Littleton. He holds a degree in mathematics from the University of Colorado[3], and was their first student to hold a double major in film and mathematics.
He now lives in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California

In 1997, Comedy Central debuted South Park, now in its twelfth season, which he and his college friend Trey Parker created. Stone was said to be the basis for the character of Kyle Broflovski on the show.
Stone is also a member of the band DVDA with Parker, for which he plays bass and drums. DVDA's songs have appeared in South Park. They include "Chewbacca", or "I Am Chewbacca", at the end of the episode "Starvin' Marvin in Space", "Montage", during the episode "Asspen", Orgazmo ("Now You're a Man"), BASEketball ("Warts on Your Dick"), South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut ("What Would Brian Boitano Do? Pt. II," "Hell Isn't Good" with lead vocals by James Hetfield of Metallica) and Team America: World Police ("America, Fuck Yeah," "Everyone Has AIDS," "Only a Woman" and a new version of "Montage"). There are also several previously unheard live songs made by them called "Crack" (or "Everybody Loves Crack"), "David Kelley, TV Warrior" and a cover of the Primus song "Sgt. Baker" (in a live recording of this song, Parker notes the reason for the cover is because Primus was the only other band they'd opened for).
The band Primus also performed the original South Park Theme Song during the first two seasons of its run. He also appeared as a guest producer on the third track - entitled "Natural Joe" - of Primus's 1999 album, Antipop.
Stone claimed to have been on acid with Trey Parker at the time of the 2000 Academy Awards, where they wore dresses popularized by Jennifer Lopez and Gwyneth Paltrow at previous awards shows.[4]
On September 28, 2007, Parker and Stone acquired the rights to the Canadian-made Kenny vs. Spenny,[5] which premiered November 14, 2007 on Comedy Central with ten old and new episodes.

South Park's early episodes tended to be shock value-oriented and featured more Pythonesque humor than later episodes. Although satire had been used on the show occasionally earlier on, it became more prevalent in later episodes. Episodes have parodied Michael Jackson ("The Jeffersons"), Paris Hilton ("Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset"), and The Passion of the Christ ("The Passion of the Jew"), as well as addressed serious political issues such as terrorism ("Cartoon Wars"), American immigration policy ("Goobacks"), Gay Marriage ("Follow that Egg"), and the Terri Schiavo case ("Best Friends Forever").
The pilot episode, "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe" (nearly identical to the first official episode, which has the same name), required three months to produce using construction paper and traditional cut-out animation techniques. However, the version that aired was different from the original version. Current episodes duplicate the original, amateurish look using modern computer animation tools — first PowerAnimator and then Maya, which Parker and Stone described as "building a sandcastle with a bulldozer". This allows for a shorter production schedule, enabling the creators to respond quickly to current events. The December 17, 2003 episode "It's Christmas in Canada" depicted the capture of Saddam Hussein a mere three days after the actual event, even referring to the "spider hole" in which he was found. In this instance - as with the Elián González episode ("Quintuplets 2000") - the creators changed the production of an episode at the last minute to focus on the new world event.
In 2002, the episode "Free Hat" aired. In this episode - inspired by Kyle's comment on Ted Koppel's Nightline that changing E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial would be like changing Raiders of the Lost Ark - a fictional George Lucas and Steven Spielberg decide to alter the first Indiana Jones film. Soon after the episode aired, Lucas and Spielberg announced that contrary to rumors they would not be altering Raiders of the Lost Ark for DVD release. Parker and Stone jokingly suggested that the episode prevented any alterations from happening.[citation needed]
On August 26, 2007, Parker and Stone committed to three more seasons of South Park, so the show will run until at least 2011.[2] They will continue to write, direct, and edit every episode of the show. [4]
Edited versions of South Park episodes, with the TV-14 rating, began broadcasting in syndication on September 19, 2005 on various local channels around the U.S.[5]
In March 2008, Comedy Central made all South Park episodes available for legal streaming on the South Park Studios website.
Matt Stone (született 1971. május 26-án) a South Park című tévésorozat egyik készítője.
Stone a texasi Houstonban született, és a coloradói Littleton Denver külvárosában nőtt fel. Apja ír, anyja zsidó származású, önmagát csak etnikailag tartja zsidónak. Több fokozata van filmből és matematikából a Coloradói Egyetemtől. 1997-ben a Comedy Central műsorra tűzte a South Parkot, melyben ő és Trey Parker működött együtt.
Stone feltűnt a 2002-es Michael Moore-dokumentumfilmben, a Kóla, puska, sültkrumpliban. A South Parkban rá alapul Kyle Broflovski fiktív szereplő.

A South Park Emmy-díjas animációs sorozat, melyet Trey Parker és Matt Stone készít 1997 óta. A sorozat négy alsó tagozatos fiú és családtagjaik, valamint a többi városi lakos szürreális kalandjait mutatja be, akik a coloradói South Park kisvárosban élnek.
A South Park elsősorban a napi események és a popkultúra kifigurázásáról ismert. A sorozat rendszeresen kigúnyolja az amerikai kultúrát, többek közt a média napihíreinek vagy híres személyiségek parodizálásával és egyéb közéleti történések feldolgozásával, közülük többet mélyen elítélve, de tabukat is döntögetve.
A sorozatot az Egyesült Államokban a Comedy Central sugározza és 1997 óta egyre nagyobb sikernek örvend; 2008-ban már a tizenkettedik évadnál jár és a készítők nemrégiben még három évad elkészítésére kötöttek szerződést a tévécsatornával.