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Matt Stone

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Biography

Recent Role:
Voice of Kyle Broflovski; Kenny McKormick; Leopold 'Butters' Stotch; Gerald Broflovski on South Park
Gender:
Male
Born:
5-26-1971
Birthplace:
Houston, Texas, U.S.A.
Birth Name:
Mathew Richard Stone
AKA:
Matt
As co-creator of South Park, one of the most highly rated original series ever to grace Comedy Central, Matt Stone is responsible for one of the most entertaining and gleefully disgusting shows in television history, a cultural phenomenon that has successfully polarized its equally fervent fans and detractors.



Born May 26, 1971, in Houston, TX, Stone moved to Littleton, CO, with his family when he was very young. His father Gerald and his mother Shiela have representations on the show. He attended the University of Colorado at Boulder as a math major, and it



More was there that he met fellow student Trey Parker, with whom he started making a series of crudely animated cartoons. In 1996, Parker and Stone collaborated on their ever first film, Cannibal! The Musical, which caught the attention of FoxLab executive Brian Graden. Graden commissioned them to make a Christmas video card, The Spirit of Christmas, a five-minute cartoon that featured the debut of the four foul-mouthed third graders who would become South Park's stars: fairly normal Stan Marsh, neurotic Kyle Broflovski, perpetually doomed Kenny McCormick, and fat and nasty Eric Cartman. The video -- its language uncensored -- quickly became the talk of Hollywood, and the guilty pleasure of watching four cartoon kids say bad words soon became the privilege of anyone with the cable channel Comedy Central. Debuting August 13, 1997, South Park became both hit and subject of controversy, as it was often invoked as yet another example of the popular-culture depravity corrupting America's children.



However, controversy did not stop the show's rapid ascent to a place of honor in America's pop culture lexicon. Following Orgazmo (1997), the Parker film that Stone produced, and BASEketball (1998), in which he starred with Parker, South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut hit movie screens across the country during the summer of 1999. The film became a modest hit, further establishing Stone's reputation as one of Hollywood's most successfully idiosyncratic talents. Matt sometimes goes by the alias, John Smith.

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    10 Perfect

    One of the greatest comedic figures of this era.

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    Matt Stone, along with Trey Parker, are geniuses. Their simplistic animation style seems amateurish, but it is one of the most efficient methods of animation out today. Considering that they create an episode of their legendary show, "South Park" in six days start-to-finish is astonishing and shows their work ethic and love for the show.

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    10 Perfect
    Matt Stone is the other genius behind Comedy Central's South Park and one of the few great comic moinds of his day. hide show

    As I said, Matt Stone is one of the few great comic minds in the US today. It all started in a film school in Colorado, where he, along with Trey Parker, made numerous different comical short films, using only construction paper. The inspiration for "South Park" began with a Christmas card they made called "The Joy of Christmas" and that was where the legacy began. They went on to produce the award winning Comedy Central TV show, and movie, still running on it's fourteenth season (they are signed on for 15). The show its self is oure comic genius, but the guys themselves are amazing. Aside from South Park, he (all along with Trey Parker) produduced and directed the movies "Orgazmo" and "Team America: World Police". He (they) also acted in the movie "Basketball" witch was the only movie they were in that he (they) did not direct my himself (themselves). His intereviews are hilarious to watch, as are the introductions to the earlier South Park episodes (not shown on the TV version, but you can see them online or if you purchase the first two seasons). He has a talent for exploiting things in daily life, and making light of them and showing them for what they really are. I hope there is plenty more of his work to come.

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    10 Perfect
    Matt Stone do Kyle's voice on South Park is very creative and intense. hide show

    I remember when I watched South Park on Comdey Central, I always tought that Matt did all the voices and Trey just do all the animations before I even saw the credits.

    I'll bet that Matt did like lots of characters voice in every months and gets really exhausted after doing it, too. Trey also gets to do every voice in almost episodes because I can tell which character are done by the creators. Matt is Jewish like Kyle and I'll think it's really awesome to do an Jewish kid on a animated show even I know that Matt sometimes well do a Jewish episodes about that like ( Jewbille) and ( Passion of the Jew) mostly done by Trey Parker.

    I know that Matt do some characters voices like:

    Kyle Broflovski
    Kenny MCcormick
    Pip
    Butters Stotch
    Kyle's dad
    Ned and lots of more that I can't even think of.

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    10 Perfect
    Just like Trey is too is not just great because of South Park, or the many movies he has made with Trey Parker, that is most of it but part of it is their views. hide show

    I love how they mix it up like when they wore dresses to the Oscars, and the actors got all mad, like their little event was so important. Matt seems like the goofier of the two, maybe because of some of his roles like Orgasmo and Basketball, but it mixes well. It might just be the hair who knows. I like how they aren't typical hollywood sellouts, and the fact they make fun of those who are. Matt & Trey are comedic geniouses in alot of the things that they think up. I think he could make these clever movies and TV episodes for another 30 years before running out of things to make fun of or people to mock. People give him ammo every day it seems. I think he is really good at what he does, and I hope he continues to make funny TV and movies for many more years.

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    Matt is awsome! Along with Trey, he has created South Park, South Park: BLU, Team America, and other things! All of his stuff is funny and great. I love The Spirit of Christmas. In his own was (and in his own head), he's a genius!

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