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Actor and musician Isaac Hayes has quit as South Park's voice of Chef, citing what he perceives to be the show's growing religious intolerance.

Ex-fucking-actly.

Isaac Hayes is a scientol...!

SHUT YOUR MOUTH!!

I'm just talking about Isaac. . .

not only the christian bashing, but jew bashing too. and gay bashing. and everything else bashing.

south park is an equal oppurtunity basher. sounds like Matt Stone is right on the money with his rebuttal.

That's a shame. He's been one of the best parts of that show.

That's great.

Lameness! Matt Stone's right on, too. You can't be faithful to a show for years when they're making fun of every other religion, and then get your knickers all in a twist when they do a show about yours.

Yep. Almost ten years worth of making fun of everything and now he decides to take a moral stand? Whatever. He was good, but not irreplaceable.

Have fun in obscurity again, Isaac.

One wonders if the skinny, white, insurance salesman Chef will take his place.

BINGO, you're politically correct when you just make fun of everybody!

I was gonna come here and say "Right On, Matt." But then everyone else did it and now Im just gonna hit enter.

Well, you can, it's just way lame of you.

Is it just me, or does anyone else out there think that 'southpark', 'team america' etc are actually extreme rightwing/conservative shows sneaking in under everyone's radar as 'outrageous alternative' - whose views ultimately support the current wave of bigoted conservatism sweeping the world?

It's just you.

To me, South Park does a brilliant job of tweaking right-wing memes to absolutely tear them apart.

I mean, if anyone thought Team America was an endorsement of Bush's foreign policy, I dont' know what to say to you.

the only thing surprising here is how long it took to leave the show. i mean, the scientology episode was on last october, wasn't it? maybe he asked for a raise and didn't get it or something.

that would be hee larry us

It really IS just you.

Here's the silver lining - you should take comfort in the fact that you have a different view about something than literally everyone else on the planet. You renegade, you.

Who cares about the politics, its construction paper children with foul mouths. It just proves that no matter how obscene, racist, or just plain un-PC it is, it is ok just because it is a cartoon. Look at Drawn Together. It's a great thing we have here, plus its an excuse for me to still watch cartoons.

Thanks for at least trying to have a discussion

Everyone else seems content to go along with the mob rules theory.

From watching southpark and team america, I really get that they support the war.

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This is what's wrong with the fucking entertainment industry.

Why can't people just watch it, and fucking enjoy it?

Who cares if its fart-jokes, politic-cracks, religious-movements, etc. Just fucking take it as it is, and enjoy it.

Matt Stone and Trey Parker are fucking Gods in my book, and if they do something I disagree with, I still fucking laugh. (In celebrity roasts, do people get pissed off? No. Why?)

It's called a sense of fucking humour.

People like you a whole lot better if you have one.

So they play a recording of him saying "hello children". Not a big deal.

"Why bad?"

"Well lemme sing you a song about it..."

Isn't there a soundboard for this type of thing already?!

Having a sense of humour and having an opinion are not mutually exclusive - but having an opinion sometimes means you don't find some things funny... even if people don't like you.

Quick Isaac, the spaceship is coming! act like you've been doing something worthwhile.