The overly-elaborated-and-delayed punchline of the latest South Park episode “More Crap” is that Bono’s status as a living turd shat by the president of the European Fecal Standards Bureau or whatever they called it explains why, in Stan’s words, Bono “has done so much for so many people and yet still seems like such a piece of s**t.” WTF?! I know Stone & Parker are on record as saying “We hate conservatives, but we really, really hate liberals,” but, still and all, what brought this on?! 
What the other thread wasn’t good enough for you? Southpark 10/10/07
I posted this one as soon as the ep was over. Mods, move it to GD or the Pit, I don’t mind. The Pit is more fitting. Stone & Parker are great artists, but may no good cess befall their seed.
I think the “smug alert” episode they did last year was similar. In the “what I learned today” type speech that Stan has at the end, after everyone decided they’d destroy all the hybrid cars, Stan said “no, don’t you see? Driving hybrids is good. Being a smug dick about it isn’t”
Same thing here. They acknowledged that Bono does good things, but he’s a smug dick about it (I don’t actually know if this is true, I try to steer clear of giving a crap about celebrities), and ripe for parody.
He can be very outspoken politically. And he always wears sunglasses, which makes him look very arrogant, but he actually wears them for his light-sensitive eyes.
This is me echoing what you’ve just said.
Also, I’m not a fan of his music. There are songs that are good, but as a whole, it’s pretty pretentious. I suppose you can’t consistently crap gold records unless you’re Bruce Dickinson.
They’ve got something against everybody dude.
I don’t get it either- Bono is rich, famous, etc and could be living a hedonistic life, but instead tries to help humanity, and they feel this is reason to rag on him? Where is the alleged smugness about it? There is none. Bob Geldof maybe, not Bono. What’s next, a show blasting Bill Gates for helping the poor in India, or Angelina Jolie for trying to help in Africa? Can’t they stick to reaming people who are assholes? 
Perhaps Stone and Parker view Bono as a hypocrite for preaching to world leaders about how they should spend their tax revenues in ways that accord with his views, while at the same time structuring his own business affairs so that he pays a minimum of tax in his native Ireland. More information here.
This is nothing new, The Stones exiled to France or something in 1971 to avoid the 95% or whatever tax amount they were facing back then. I don’t see how that makes one a hypocrite or in any way a bad person for lobbying rich countires to help the poor while trying to minimize your own taxes, especially when you are giving a good amount of your own money to help the poor. And I also doubt Parker (per the end credits, Stone hasn’t contributed to an episode in years) made the episode with this in mind- my guess as to his thought process is- rich famous guy plus cowboy hat and sunglasses, plus desire to help others = douchebag
The Mel Gibson skewering I get and agree with, this one, like Matt Damon, or Family Guy’s rip on Colin Farrell, not so much.
The reason why they made fun of Matt Damon in “Team America” was that they originally didn’t mean to, but when the puppets came back from order Matt Damon’s looked retarded, so they just went with it.
Bono-hatred knows no bounds.
I’m a lifelong U2 and Bono fan, but I’ll be the first to admit Bono is not just a musician, he’s a Grade-A rockstar. Actually, I’d be the second; he’d be the first.
Bono has always had kind of a reputation for having a messiah complex and being a tad larger than life and full of himself, onstage and off. People accused him of egomania and rockstaritis back when Rattle and Hum came out, and if you go back and look at the “Live at Red Rocks” video from the 80’s, he pulls off some rockstar antics that would be eye-roll inducing from anyone else. It even stretches back pre-fame; U2 was playing a party back when they were still teenagers and he tried to pull off some rockstar moves and chat up a girl between songs because the audience was merely dancing rather than paying rapt attention to them. The guy she was dancing with told him to “screw off, you David Bowie wannabee.” He knows he’s got a lead-singer rockstar personality and has a pretty good sense of humor about it.
When you compare his treatment to that received by most other celebrities Trey and Matt go after, (J Lo, Ben Affleck, everybody on TAWP) his portrayal as a caring, successful and talented turd seemed to me to be comparatively mild…at least they listed his good points. 
I kinda think it was a case of “just his turn.”
If Bono is minimizing his own taxes at home, is he not minimizing his contribution to Irish public finances? I don’t see how that would square with simultaneous urging to other countries to spend their own public funds on woolly-minded goals such as ending hunger.
And when the Stones relocated their finances, they were being straightforwardly mercenary, rather than indulging in a bunch of sanctimonious preaching about how other peoples’ money should be spent while taking advantage of a sharp financial maneuver.
Why do you think that’s not sufficient motivation?
(And I don’t buy the “we hate conservatives” claim - they criticize conservatives just enough so that conservative viewers can convince themselves that the show is fair and balanced.)
I’m generally conservative, and I am fully aware that they criticize liberals more, couldn’t care less if it’s fair and balanced, and think they are hilarious.
Well, it’s a work of fiction , so it doesn’t need to be “fair and balanced”. South Park makes fun of everyone; if you don’t get that, you’re missing the point. If you want deep meaning, go read a book.
IIRC, Angelina Jolie’s crotch was the haven for generations of lice in “Lice Capades”.
Why should anyone pay more than the minimum tax?
Exactly.
I really hope they do an Ann Coulter episode soon. That should be hilarious.