South Park Creators Bring How's Your News? to MTV

Matt Stone on Camp Jabberwocky's special news team.

About 10 years back South Park's Matt Stone and Trey Parker put their love and money into a docu-film called How's Your News?, which featured members of an Adults with Disabilities camp, Camp Jabberwocky, hitting the streets as part of a news team and getting a slew of "man on the streets" interviews. Trey and Matt saw some of the footage that was coming out of the camp and, as Matt Stone put it at the recent TCA press tour, "we just loved it. This was back before South Park was on the air." And ever since the feature film in 1999, Matt and Trey have been "kind of Godfathering the project which has changed a lot over the past 10 years," said Stone.

Moving How's Your News? into a TV series on MTV is definitely something that might not have ever seemed possible, especially given the beast that MTV has become and how much the network has changed its focus over time. But Stone was hesitant to try and get it on Comedy Central, mostly out of respect for the participant's disabilities and the humor that may unintentionally grow out of their interviews with celebrities. The TV show itself, however, has more to do with the team, and their own lives, than the previous incarnations of Hows? "This show is really about them. We have a lot of celebrity stuff because we went to LA and New York and Las Vegas, but it's really about them," Stone clarified.

In the 6 episodes of the new series, we follow the reporters, including Jeremy Vest and Sue Harrington, as they cram on board a bus and live along with the camera crew and meet the likes of John Stamos, Sarah Silverman and Jeremy's confessed lifelong hero, Kermit the Frog. And it wasn't just any bus. "It was really fun. It's really amazingly and outrageously orange," beemed Vest. Who was the dream interview for Sue Harrington? The Plain White T's.

Stone was also asked to comment on how he and Trey Parker are able to maintain a respectful portrayal of the How's Your News? reporters, especially since they are, of course, notorious for their off-color and controversial antics of South Park. Stone was really never afraid to be associated with the members of Camp Jabberwocky, he was more afraid for them to be associated with him, given the stigma that might come with the phrase "from the creators of South Park." Jabberwocky Video Teacher and Executive Producer, Arthur Bradford said that the show will be about "this amazing and talented group of people as they travel across the country. Their sense of humor permeates every moment of every episode."