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with Alan Yentob. # You all know the Bible is made of | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
testaments old and # You've been told it is two parts | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
or only one if you are a Jew # But what if I were to tell you, | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
there's a fresh third part out there | :02:29. | :02:39. | |
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# Which was found by a hit new prophet who had a little Donny | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
Osmond flair # The Book of Mormon is the sacred text of the Mormon | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
faith. But in the hands of South Park creators, Trey Parker and Matt | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
stone, it's inspired a hit Broadway musical. | :02:54. | :03:02. | |
Parker and Stone's Book of Mormon is irreverent and profane religious | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
satire following the exploits of two young Mormon missionaries sent | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
to Africa. Like the rest of their work from South Park, through to | :03:09. | :03:19. | |
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Team America nothing is off limits and nobody is safe from ridicule. | :03:20. | :03:28. | |
I am afraid minors cannot go on to the casino floor. I'm not a minor, | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
dumbass. We are very skilled at gratuity. Wetter experts. | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
Now The Book of Mormon has opened in London's West End. So what | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
drives this relentlessly creative and provocative duo across TV, film | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
and now the stage and how did they end up making a Broadway musical in | :03:49. | :03:58. | |
the first place? # All American... # | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
Los Angeles, cement 2012. And Hollywood stars are out in force | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
for the West Coast opening of Michael Portillo Mormon. The show's | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
creator, -- of The Book of Mormon. The show's creators are the toast | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
of the town of the famous residents they spent years poking fun at. | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
Affleck is naked in my bed. I am eight voice of a generation, what | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
are you? Jesus, how I love you, how I love you. | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
Hello. Religion has always been another favourite target but a | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
stage musical about Mormons, where did that idea come from? | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
# Hello # Did you know that Jesus lived | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
here in the USA. We grew up in Colorado. We have been talking | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
about morm Michael Portillos for years. We grew -- talking about | :04:51. | :05:00. | |
Mormons. We knew them and lived near them. | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
We sent them to this place, that was cursed. These two white kids | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
who grew up in a nice suburb an neighbourhood and drop them in what | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
happens? # We've had no rent for several | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
days # And 80% of us have AIDS # In this | :05:19. | :05:27. | |
scene, the mission rigs discover the African song has a blasphemous | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
English translation. # Holy molly, I said it like 13 | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
times... # What made you decide you were going to do this as a musical | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
a Broadway show? We decided to do a musical. We didn't know we would do | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
a Broadway thing. We never start anything and say let's do this, | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
then we will do that and that. We say - this is funny, I wonder what | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
it will be? It'll start going. We just try to do a funny song, a | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
funny album. Then with the album we could start to think what the show | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
would be. That was really smart. We started off with a collection of | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
songs that told the story. You know, the show revolves arounds the songs. | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
That's what makes a good news museical. | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
# This was the time for me to step # So then why was I so scared? | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
# A warlord who shoots people in the face | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
# What's so scary about that? # You feel that Mormons enjoy singing and | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
should sing. I don't know why they didn't think of it first. They just | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
plug right into a musical perfectly. They always look like they are | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
about to break out in a cheesey song. We just cot them for them. -- | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
we just wrote them for them. # I believe that the Lord God | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
created the universe # I believe that he sent his only | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
son to die for my sins # And I believe that ancient Jews | :06:51. | :07:01. | |
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built boats and sailed to America # I am a Mormon | :07:03. | :07:11. | |
# And the Mormons believe # Mormonism was born in America | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
founded by Joseph Smith. The origin story was first spoofed by Matt and | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
Trey in South Park. I was asking God if I should be a Catholic, | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
protestant or what and God and Jesus appeared before me and said I | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
should start my own church because none of the others had it right. | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
That's exactly how it happened. see, you believe it now? Sure, why | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
would he make that up? Joseph Smith was in a time when there were all | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
these different religions. Everyone was here in the new world and they | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
were reading about everything that happened in the world world. He | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
wanted to say - we are in this whole new continent and place let's | :07:46. | :07:53. | |
bring it here. I am a native American. A nailtive American, but | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
your skin is white. Yes, long ago all native Americans were white. We | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
all came to America from Jerusalem, while we were here we were visited | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
by Christ. Jesus lived here in America? Before Mormon we said - | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
here is what Mormons believe. This was their story, this is America. | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
These are your neighbours. They are right next door. | :08:18. | :08:27. | |
# I believe... # APPLAUSE | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
There was something about the Mormons, which is one with one | :08:32. | :08:39. | |
imagines about the benign side of America, but also naive. We all do | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
think... Super naive and cheesey with a total heartful of gold and | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
they want to knock on your door in another country and tell you how to | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
live your life. Young missionaries spread the Mormon message all over | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
the globe and the faith now claims over 14 million followers worldwide. | :08:55. | :09:01. | |
But many of them work here in the US. I've come it San Diego to meet | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
up with two elders as they make their rounds. The Book of Mormon is | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
true. Which is why we are here it share it with everyone. Why do you | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
go around in pairs? As we are out here for two years we basically go | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
with another person. We work together and we are on the same | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
team to help other people out. And the other thing I want to know | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
about, you are young guys, aren't you? You are in your 20s, I take it. | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
What do you feel about being called elders? We get a lot of smiles and | :09:32. | :09:38. | |
they look at us - we are pretty young. We explain it is a title | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
that signification we are missionaries of Jesus rice -- | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
signifies. What are we going to do now? We'll go and knock on some | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
doors and talk to people in the park. | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
I'll watch you from afar. How are you doing today Carroll. You have a | :09:55. | :10:03. | |
great day, OK, ma'am. Goodbye. So, how was that? It was good. A | :10:03. | :10:13. | |
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real friendly lady. But... Well she said she was Catholic right now. | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
It's not proving the most fruitful of days. Stkpwhral an we better | :10:17. | :10:24. | |
give at lest one of them to you, right -- Alan. That's very good for | :10:24. | :10:31. | |
you. Goodbye. And good luck. Meanwhile, the Mormon Church has | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
adopted a somewhat entrepreneurial approach to the musical's | :10:34. | :10:41. | |
popularity. This is the programme for the LA | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
production The Book of Mormon. It really is quite amazing. As you | :10:44. | :10:51. | |
open it up, you see these huge full page ads for the Book of Mormon, | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
not the play and production, the Book of Mormon the source of all | :10:56. | :11:02. | |
Mormon faith. "I've read the book", he says, smiling, "The Book is | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
always better." Over the page, "You've seen the play", with a | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
great grin on his face, "Now read the Book." Were you surprised when | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
the Mormons advertised the Book of Mormon? We weren't at all. People | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
were saying at the beginning - there will be a big backlash. We | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
were like, no, we know Mormons, we grew up with them. Their MO is to | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
beat you by being cinder than you and higher than you and being like | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
- OK, I don't agree with what you are doing but I agree with your | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
ability to do it. The Church's position on our The Book of Mormon | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
is exactly the way I would want a Church to react to a major piece of | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
pop culture criticism. You know, they say - we've got a first | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
amendment and they are free to do that. | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
The winner is... The Book of Mormon. Parker and Stone's The Book of | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
Mormon has been a sweeping critical and commercial success in the US. | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
Wracking up nine Tony awards. couldn't be here tonight but, you | :12:11. | :12:18. | |
did it gentlemenself, you got the Tony. In many ways, it comes as no | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
surprise. Music has always ban vital ingredient in their | :12:23. | :12:31. | |
imfamiliarous South Park cartoon. -- been a vital ingredient. | :12:31. | :12:40. | |
# We need to form... # I've come to is visit them in their | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
LA studios as they make the final episode in the 16th season of the | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
South Park show. The Chinese got Cartman it fix the election so they | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
could take Star Wars from Disney. No, these don't belong to you. They | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
belong to the people. Each 22 minute programme is created from | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
scratch in just six days. That's it, one take. It is easy when the | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
writing and directing comes from the same place. They start work on | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
Thursday and go to air the following Wednesday. Thank you, | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
thank you all for your votes of confidence. I think he should be | :13:13. | :13:20. | |
looking at camera for that. It's all right, it's parody. | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
It's awesome to me, though, that you do South Park in six days. It | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
kind of amazes me. It honestly is just a thing where there is no time | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
for writer's block. You know you have to - the only time you get | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
hung-up is you lose faith in - especially in comedy, you can sit | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
in the room and laugh about something and the next day it is - | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
oh, that's kind of funny but is it really that funny? Then all of a | :13:46. | :13:56. | |
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sudden it is not funny at all. is a bit like a live show, no time | :13:57. | :14:04. | |
for second-guessing and not overcooked. Sometimes it is a bit | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
law. It is deodd rant. It is not expensive. D you take attendance? | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
I'll kick you the nuts. Looking for a hammer today? Matt and Trey first | :14:13. | :14:19. | |
met as students in their home state, Colorado. Did Did you always make | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
each other laugh or is it purely business? There was no business. We | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
weren't making money out of it. a long time. We met at film school. | :14:28. | :14:35. | |
We were just the only two guys that were into comedy. No-one else was | :14:35. | :14:42. | |
even thinking that. They were all thinking of being Roman Polanski or | :14:42. | :14:48. | |
scores scores scores. We bonded over Python scripts. | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
remember watching and seeing python athinking they were talking like | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
that to be funny, that that accent was actually just funny talk. | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
like dressing up, yes. And it was just so cheap and sheety we thought | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
- you can shoot something like that. You could tell these were guys | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
running outside and shooting something and it was like - we can | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
do that. We can do that. # That's all we're asking for | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
# That's all we are asking for # Wear tired of being sick | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
# We're sick of being poor # We've had a little look now... # | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
Their first major production was a film musical called Cannibal. Moth | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
men had starring roles with Trey also writing and directing. | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
Cannibal was the first thing we said - let's do something that | :15:40. | :15:48. | |
length, that has, you know a full beginning, middle, end. We did that | :15:48. | :15:54. | |
when we were 19, 20, 21. Looking back, it is just ridiculous. | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
think in the back of our minds, it was - it is not like we are | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
actually going to do it. It was always a thing like - that will be | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
cool. All of sudden we were doing it. It was happening. Yes, we were | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
doing it. Cannibal got them noticed, but it was something else they | :16:11. | :16:17. | |
developed as students that well and truly launched their careers. | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
# Don't you oppress me fat boy # Don't call me fat... The Spirit | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
of Christmas was an animated short which saw four young boys caught | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
newspaper a fist-fight between Jesus and Santa. | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
Go, Santa. Go Jesus. It was basically like - let's cut out | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
stuff and we had the camera. It was all construction paper and scissors | :16:42. | :16:48. | |
and glue. We got an animation book. I remember the book. And I remember | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
it saying "Here is the shape of a mouth during consonants and vowels | :16:53. | :17:00. | |
"We Damn it, a big fat fuck. counted our voices and went through | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
and counted out where it was and put those mouths on. And it kind of | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
worked and we created what became Stan and Cartman and Kenny. | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
# We wish you a merry Christmas... # The cartoon became an early viral | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
hit and they were asked to make a pilot show for the fledgling | :17:19. | :17:26. | |
committeedy central network. Eric Style has been with Matt and Trey | :17:26. | :17:32. | |
since the beginning. It is the 22 pilot we did 16 years ago. This is | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
pretty much all the artwork that we had specifically cut out of | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
construction paper. We photographed it underneath the camera stand. | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
This is where Cartman got zapped by aliens and started to break into a | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
1930s or 1940s animated cartoon song. | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
# I know I'm not under alien control. | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
# I love to sing about the moon and the June and spring | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
# I love to singa about a sky of blew or... # We'd put down this and | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
then take a picture of it and then take this out and put in a new body | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
and maybe we would change a mouth and we would have the character | :18:15. | :18:21. | |
blink. Here is all the chefs. Here is a good example. This is when the | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
bus drove away down the street it. Went from a big bus all the way | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
down to a small, little tiny bus. You can see the detail of the | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
characters. I don't know if your camera can pick it up. At some | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
point we stopped putting eyebulls on them. | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
Ahhhhhh! How long did it take you? About six | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
months. Six months to make the pilot. Now you do it in six days. | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
Now we do a show in six days, yeah. # I'm going down to South Park | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
# I'm going to have myself a time... # When South Park's first season | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
hit the screens it, wasn't so much the look of the show but the | :19:02. | :19:10. | |
content. Alien anal probes. There is a dish sticking out of your ass. | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
Jesus boxing Satans and a talking festive fee she is all made an | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
appearance. When we came out we were like holy shit, lock up your | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
kids, this show is on. It was people coming out saying - this is | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
the end of democracy as we know it. This is the end everything. They | :19:28. | :19:34. | |
were just labelled, that show. We saw it as fresh, non-trampled show. | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
We thought here is a bunch of jokes other people should be making, we | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
will do it. Blending the pure Isle with the profound, the main | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
characters of Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny offered a unique way of | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
examining and satarising adult America. South Park Elementary | :19:51. | :19:58. | |
presents the happy non-offensive, non-denominational Christmas play, | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
with music by the minimalist composer, Philip Glass. As I turn | :20:02. | :20:12. | |
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and look into the sun, the rays burn my eyes. What the hell is | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
this? Do you want to make people laugh, think, angry? Not angry. | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
have never once gone into that writer's room and sat down and said | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
- what can piss people off this week? But of course part of being | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
funny is to take any kind of issue and just take the other side of it. | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
Being this kind of punk, fuck you kind of show, when we were at the | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
height of it and we were under Bush for so long, the punk thing here | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
wasn't - you don't go to a party and say - man, screw Bush man, | :20:47. | :20:54. | |
people are like, that's not punk. We say Bush is just amazing, he is | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
doing the best job. People are like - what? That gets the reaction. To | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
us, it was the one sidedness of it all that made us fall in love with | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
doing shows where, you know, we'd say the opposite. By the way | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
children there is a walkout scheduled today to protest the war | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
in Iraq, if you are against the war run along outside, if you are for | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
the war stay here and we'll d math problems. | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
-- we'll do. This contrary political posturing | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
has been hijacked in the past. The term South Park conservative was | :21:29. | :21:39. | |
:21:39. | :21:43. | ||
always ridiculed the right and the left. No-one wants to hear a bunch | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
of country music pro-war propaganda. Nobody wants it hear a bunch of | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
rock protest songs. -- to hear. like the best when it comes to make | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
a show and it is almost time to air and we are like - we are kind of | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
saying this. I think that's when it is the most exciting. The fast turn | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
around of the show allows for unique topicality. How can I help? | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
You I got a �100 cheque from my grandma. My dad says I need to put | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
it in the bank so it can grow over the years. That is a smart decision | :22:16. | :22:26. | |
we can put it in a money market mutual found and we'll have | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
compound interest and oh, it's gone. We don't think our job is to change | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
people's minds. Our job is to throw stuff out there and let people | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
think about, whatever. Over the years their treatment of religion | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
has sparked moral outrage, censorship and veiled death threats. | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
Catholic groups were incensed by the episode Bloody Mary that poked | :22:48. | :22:54. | |
fun at the belief's far far-fetched miracles. | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
It was the joke of - how come the piece of blood that is always the | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
stain in the wall is right here and not the one that is right, some | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
place else. She's beautiful. FARTING NOISES | :23:09. | :23:15. | |
Is it always crying blood? That was just funny to us. Jewish drugs are | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
a regular feature with Cartman insulting Kyle in nearly every | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
episode. Why do you need me? needed to you do the book keeping. | :23:23. | :23:29. | |
Kyle is a Jewish kid. I grew up in Colorado, my mom was Jewish, I'm | :23:29. | :23:36. | |
Jewish. Kyle was just a white kid. Kyle is just like Stan, they are | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
the same. There's the joke, there is nothing there. Welcome to Muslim | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
sensitivity training. It is important for us... Certain ten ets | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
of Islam have also been par did. And why we can never show an image | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
of Mohammed. Muslims cannot show an image of Mohammed. But the show's | :23:56. | :24:03. | |
network has sensored some episodes for fear of reprisal from | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
exstreamists. There has been no fatwa. Well thrfts one, but I think | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
it has been lifted. Well there was one. If anybody is considered - you | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
cannot touch that, anything you have done offensive, it immediately | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
stains anything you have done. It only makes sense to us if | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
everyone's deepest beliefs are kind of on the chopping board. | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
frozen alien bodies were loaded on to the galactic cruisers. | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
Perhaps the most notorious episode isn't up the beliefs of Scientology | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
and played with tabloid rumours about the Church's most famous | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
member. I'm nothing. I'm a failure in the eyes of the prophet. | :24:44. | :24:50. | |
Hey. Dude, I'm sorry, I didn't mean it. Go away. Dude, this is my room. | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
Go I way, I said. Dad, Tom Cruise won't come out of | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
the closet. Did you struggle because there were libel issues? | :24:59. | :25:05. | |
That became the fun part of it, too. Sitting there in the room and going | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
- the lawyer said we can't do this? It was - OK, can we do this? Maybe. | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
That became another part of it. is John Travolta. Hey, John. | :25:16. | :25:24. | |
You have got to come out of the closet, Tom. This taste for celeb- | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
bashing meets spectacular new heights in their movie. Team | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
America, World Police. My fellow actors, we live in a dark time, the | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
world is more viepent and the idiots in charge are making it | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
worse. -- violent. The world needs an international advisory committee | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
who truly understands global politics, namely us. | :25:44. | :25:52. | |
Why did you do that? Why celebrities? It was celebrities for | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
free. They are puppets. We don't have to pi them the rates. -- we | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
don't have to pay them. There is nothing more fun of making a puppet | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
or a cartoon of somebody important and setting them on fire, throwing | :26:06. | :26:14. | |
them against the wall, you know, fargt on them, dumping shit on them. | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
-- farting. There is some high brow explanation of why that's really | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
important culture, but we just like doing that. I think it is important | :26:22. | :26:30. | |
that people who are held up as idols get shit on. Film critiqued | :26:30. | :26:38. | |
American foreign policy and musicalised former North Korean | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
dictator Kim Jong Il # I'm so lonely | :26:41. | :26:50. | |
# So lonely and sadly alone # There's no-one just me only | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
# Sitting on my little home... # When I was about 12, I discovered | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
the piano. I was all about music. All through junior high and high | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
school, it was all about writing funny songs. I like the joke | :27:04. | :27:11. | |
writing in songs. It was funny when we did the South Park movie. You | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
know because right away as soon as I knew we were going to do a movie | :27:16. | :27:26. | |
:27:26. | :27:27. | ||
I was like - we have to do a musical. Some of the reaction we | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
got when the movie came out was going - I loved the movie, I saw | :27:32. | :27:42. | |
:27:42. | :27:43. | ||
you had to fill a will the in with music. Music is the hardest part. | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
People don't understand. The stkpwhrth fact you are dealing with | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
music and -- the fact that you are dealing with music and it is in a | :27:50. | :27:53. | |
song, does that give you more licence? Maybe you do get away with | :27:53. | :27:57. | |
more because you can say something in the middle of a jolly happy song | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
that is like oh. The same reason why we can get away with so much | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
that we do with South Park is because we hope and think it is not | :28:04. | :28:09. | |
a cynical show. It comes off at the end of being a happy optimistic | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
show and so does The Book of Mormon. If it was just you go in there and | :28:13. | :28:16. | |
there is just negativity and cynicism, no-one wants to watch | :28:16. | :28:25. | |
that. Especially no-one wants to go and pay 100 bucks to watch that. | :28:25. | :28:30. | |
A few months have passed since I visited Matt and Trey in LA. They | :28:30. | :28:36. | |
are now here in London rehearsing the West End version of The Book of | :28:36. | :28:39. | |
Mormon. # Tomorrow is a latter day | :28:39. | :28:49. | |
:28:49. | :28:49. | ||
# And I am here for you... # # Tomorrow is a latter day | :28:49. | :28:58. | |
# Tomorrow is a latter day # Tomorrow is a latter day... # | :28:58. | :29:04. | |
So the show, how is it going here? We saw a run-through upstairs it. | :29:04. | :29:08. | |
Looked great. They have still a few weeks of work left but right now it | :29:08. | :29:18. | |
:29:18. | :29:24. | ||
A big show like this, did the light come up when it was supposed to? | :29:24. | :29:28. | |
There is so much of that and we know the spaces where we are to | :29:28. | :29:31. | |
come in and work on things that's just the script and humour and all | :29:31. | :29:35. | |
of that. Recently Matt and Trey have also revealed the formation of | :29:35. | :29:43. | |
their very own film studio. You've got a very modest title you | :29:43. | :29:50. | |
called it Important Studio. tried to make it Very Important and | :29:50. | :29:54. |