According to Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the biggest difficulty with creating "South Park" content after all these years is trying to stay both funny and original.
"We don't ever want to do the same joke," Parker explained in 2016. "It was always, 'The Simpsons did it, The Simpsons did it,'" he said. "And now, the funny thing is we'll sit in there [and] be like, 'What if someone like this, someone like that,' and we're like this sounds familiar. 'Yea, we did it ten years ago.'"
Parker and Stone's 25th anniversary show for "South Park" at Red Rocks wound up being a huge event for the pair, with it being the most expensive concert ever held at the historic Colorado venue. Season 26 of the animated classic is expected to come out sometime in 2023, and as Parker said earlier, it'll be chock full of fresh laughs.
"We never want to repeat ourselves," he told the Los Angeles Times in an August 2022 interview. "There's definitely tropes, but for it to be funny, it's got to be new. Just going, 'Cartman is fat, and he likes cheesy poofs' is not going to make us laugh."
Parker added, "It's easier to be fresh about something topical because it's new."
