‘South Park’ airs brutal spoof of FCC’s Brendan Carr over Jimmy Kimmel suspension

“South Park” aired a merciless spoof of Federal Communications Chairman Brendan Carr over his attacks on Jimmy Kimmel in its first episode to air after the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

In the Comedy Central series’ latest episode titled “Conflict of Interest,” the FCC chairman falls down greased stairs, eats a laced stew that makes him soil his pants — and lands in the hospital with toxoplasmosis, where the doctor warns: “If the toxoplasmosis parasite gets to his brain, I’m afraid he may lose his freedom of speech.”

Vice President JD Vance is overjoyed that Carr is in critical condition, since he wants any potential roadblocks to the presidency out of his way, and threatens Carr on his hospital bed: “We can do this the easy way or the hard way.”

That’s the same line the real-life Carr said last week as he urged ABC and Disney to take action against Kimmel after the late-night host implied that Kirk’s killer might have been a MAGA conservative.

ABC suspended Kimmel just a few hours after Carr’s remarks — which critics including Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) likened to a threat from a Mafia boss.

Nexstar and Sinclair, two major owners of ABC affiliates that control over 60 stations combined, also quickly yanked Kimmel’s show off the air.

ABC has since lifted its suspension, and “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” made its return on Tuesday, though Kimmel once again failed to apologize for his remarks.

Nexstar and Sinclair, however, have not lifted their bans on the show, instead replacing it with news programming across their ABC affiliates.

Nexstar is currently seeking approval from the FCC and Carr for its $6.2 billion acquisition of Tegna, which requires changes to the cap for how many stations the company can own.

Earlier in the “South Park” episode, Kyle discovers his classmates are betting on whether his mom will “strike Gaza and destroy a Palestinian hospital” via a prediction markets app.

After he’s told to “call the FCC as they’re dealing with all the offensive stuff now,” Kyle files a complaint with Carr, who rushes to the White House to warn President Trump.

Trump, meanwhile, is scheming to have Satan abort his unborn “butt baby” – yet every mousetrap he sets for Satan accidentally harms Carr instead.

Last week, Carr denied that his calls for ABC to take action against Kimmel were linked to the comedian’s notorious anti-Trump politics.

He argued that networks with TV licenses – like ABC, NBC and CBS – have an obligation to serve the public interest, and Kimmel failed to do so by “appearing to directly mislead the American public.”

Wednesday’s “South Park” episode was the first since Kirk’s assassination.

“South Park” — which has mocked Trump in many episodes since 2016 — pulled an old episode that mocked Kirk from Comedy Central’s schedule after the 31-year-old conservative activist was fatally shot. The Kirk episode is still available to stream on Paramount+.

Kirk’s longtime producer, Andrew Colvet, said Comedy Central made a mistake pulling the episode.

“Charlie loved that he was featured in South Park. He told me many times,” Colvet wrote in a post on X.

Hours before the latest episode was planned for release on Sept. 17, the show’s co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone wrote on X that it was not ready for release, and had to be pushed a week to Sept. 24.

Parker and Stone create each episode week-by-week, often wrapping in recent political events.