South Park Episode Mocking Charlie Kirk Pulled After Assassination at Utah Rally

Comedy Central has pulled a recent South Park episode mocking conservative activist Charlie Kirk following his assassination on Wednesday during a Utah Valley University rally, where he was speaking as part of his American Comeback Tour.

Kirk, 31, was shot once in the neck while taking questions from the audience and died shortly afterward, according to Utah authorities.

The episode in question, titled Got a Nut (Season 27, Episode 2), aired in early August and depicted Eric Cartman hosting a podcast modeled on Kirk’s real-life college debates, as The Daily Mail points out. In the show, Cartman debates liberal students, quotes Bible verses, and mimics Kirk’s combative style and physical appearance.

In one controversial scene, Cartman hosts a college rally similar to Kirk’s real events, taking over the stage “Bible in hand.”

As the news site explains, Kirk reacted to South Park’s depiction of him on his podcast – laughing off the jokes and even claiming the show “accidently ends up spreading the gospel.”

However, following his assassination, critics have accused South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone of fueling political hostility. “They do an episode which is basically a hit piece on Charlie Kirk and a couple weeks later he’s murdered,” one user wrote on X, while others blamed the show for “normalizing violence” against conservative figures.

The episode has been removed from Comedy Central’s nightly cable lineup but remains available on Paramount+.

The episode’s removal comes amid ongoing tensions between South Park and the Trump administration. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem recently criticized the show for mocking her appearance and referencing controversial incidents from her memoir in an August episode:

“It’s so lazy to just constantly make fun of women for how they look. If they wanted to criticize my job, go ahead and do that. But clearly they can’t – they just pick something petty like that”

The White House had previously called the series “irrelevant” after it parodied President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance in its season premiere.