Andrew Kolvet, executive producer of “The Charlie Kirk Show,” said the late conservative activist would have wanted Comedy Central to continue airing a “South Park” episode that lampooned him.
“Hey @paramountplus, as someone who can speak with some authority on this, Charlie loved that he was featured in South Park,” Kolvet wrote in a post Wednesday on the social platform X.
“He told me many times,” Kolvet, also a close friend of Kirk’s, continued. “He would want the episode back up.”
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In the wake of Kirk’s assassination, Paramount, which owns Comedy Central, pulled the episode from the show’s linear rotation. It remains available on demand and on Paramount Plus.
The episode, called “Got a Nut,” premiered last month and largely focuses its satire on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Vice President Vance.
But it also includes a scene with the animated show’s protagonist Eric Cartman appearing to dress as Kirk before engaging in a debate with a classmate.
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The 31-year-old Turning Point USA co-founder had called the parody a “badge of honor,” saying before the episode aired that it would “show the cultural impact and the resonance that our movement has been able to achieve.”
Kirk, who temporarily changed his social media profile picture to an image of Cartman, told Fox News in July, “I’m excited to watch it because, look, we as conservatives need to be able to take a joke, right?”
“We shouldn’t take ourselves so seriously,” he said at the time.
Judy Kurtz contributed.
