List of South Park Writers
List of every famous television writer who has written for South Park, listed alphabetically with photos when available. List includes anyone who was or is on the writing staff for South Park. Staff writers as well as guest writers for South Park are included when available, along with more information about each South Park writer. If you're an aspiring writer and a fan of South Park, then this writing staff from South Park should be studied closely.
Examples include Matt Stone and Trey Parker.
This list helps answer the question, “Who wrote for South Park?”
Dan Sterling
Dan Sterling is an American screenwriter and television producer who has worked on many successful television shows, including King of the Hill, Kitchen Confidential, The Daily Show, South Park, The Sarah Silverman Program and The Office.Sterling's script The Interview became famous after it was seen as an act of war by the supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Kim Jong-un. The Guardians of the Peace made terrorist threats of "a 9/11 style attack" against cinemas who planned to screen the film, and also threatened the safety of Sony Pictures employees and their families. As a result of these threats, Sony Pictures initially cancelled the release of The Interview, though it was later given a limited theatrical release, with broad digital release online through a Sony website, Google Play, Microsoft's Xbox Video, and YouTube Movies.- Nationality: United States of America
- Series Written: Jesse, King of the Hill, South Park, Kitchen Confidential, Girls
- Episodes: Business is Picking Up, Orange You Sad I Did Say Banana?, Luanne's Saga, Students Get Flu, Carrie at Zoo
Dave Polsky
David Polsky is an American film and television screenwriter best known for creating The Buzz on Maggie and co-writing Scary Movie 2. His production company is called Juban Productions.- Birthplace: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Nationality: United States of America
- Series Written: South Park
- Episodes: Damien
- David A. Goodman is an American writer, producer, and president of the Writers Guild of America West. He has been a writer for several television series, such as The Golden Girls, his first job, Futurama, where he was also a co-executive producer and wrote the notable Star Trek parody episode "Where No Fan Has Gone Before", and Star Trek: Enterprise. Goodman produced Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, and is the writer of Fred: The Movie, a 2010 film based on the Fred Figglehorn YouTube series, as well as the sequel, Fred 2: Night of the Living Fred.
- Birthplace: New Rochelle, New York, USA
- Nationality: United States of America
- Series Written: Wings, Father of the Pride, Babes, Futurama, Family Guy
- Episodes: Hooked on Monkey Fonics, Spy Girls, Sexual Harassment Panda, Cartman's Mom Is a Dirty Slut, The Impotence of Being Ernest
- Kenneth Joel Hotz (born May 3, 1967) is a Canadian producer and entertainer. Hotz is a former South Park staff writer, "Kenny" of the Comedy Central television series Kenny vs. Spenny, creator of the FX series Testees, and Kenny Hotz's Triumph of the Will. He has received numerous international awards for his film, television, and digital content. Hotz is an award-winning Vice personality. He began his career as a photographer and Gulf War photo-journalist
- Birthplace: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Nationality: Canada
- Series Written: South Park, Testees
- Episodes: Project X, Pill for Men, Vac Attack, Mr. Pain and Danger Lad, Pineapple Shampoo
- Kyle McCulloch (born November 11, 1962) is a Canadian writer for the TV cartoon South Park, and is largely responsible for the show's Canadian culture themes. He will also occasionally provide the voice for one-time use characters, such as one of the Mormon characters in "All About Mormons". He was a story editor and writer on SpongeBob SquarePants. He wrote one episode in season 4 and returned to work on the show in season 9, but left again to work on Lady Dynamite. He was set to make his feature film debut writing and directing The SpongeBob Movie: It's a Wonderful Sponge along with Paul Tibbitt, who was originally set to return to direct the film, but they were later replaced by The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie writer, Tim Hill. Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, McCulloch is also the voice and creator of Mr. Wong in the online cartoon series at icebox.com. The son of retired CBC Radio announcer Tom McCulloch, Kyle McCulloch grew up in Winnipeg and started his career acting in Guy Maddin films such as Archangel, Careful, and Tales from the Gimli Hospital. In 1990 he performed in his own play at the Winnipeg Fringe Festival.
- Birthplace: Regina, Canada
- Nationality: Canada
- Series Written: South Park, SpongeBob SquarePants
- Episodes: Skill Crane, Starvin' Marvin in Space
- Although born in Texas, Matt Stone was raised in Littleton, CO and he attended the University of Colorado at Boulder as a math major. As an undergraduate, he met filmmaker Trey Parker (who reportedly fed him slabs of roast beef) and eventually acted in Parker's first feature "Cannibal! The Musical/Alferd Packer! The Musical!" (1993), a fanciful retelling of the true story of an 19th Century prospector who ate several colleagues. When the film failed to find a berth at Sundance, it was shown at a midnight screening (and reportedly gave birth to the alternative Slamdance Festival). Troma picked up the rights and released the film. After Stone graduated in 1994, he and Parker headed to L.A. and attempted to find work. Commissioned to create a holiday video greeting card by TV executive Brian Graden, the pair fashioned a crudely animated short using construction paper cut-outs. "The Spirit of Christmas" centered on four foul-mouthed kids who witnessed a confrontation between Santa Clause and Jesus Christ over the true meaning of Christmas. The video became an industry hit with celebrities from Tom Cruise to Steven Spielberg obtaining copies. Parker and Stone began to field offers to direct features but finally accepted cable channel Comedy Central's deal to create an animated series. Almost from its debut in August 1997, "South Park" courted controversy. Not only was the animation subversively substandard but the writing was humorous and took on every sacred cow, skewering topics ranging from religion to euthanasia to the cult of celebrity. No one and nothing was immune. The show also pushed the boundaries of language as the four main characters, Kyle (patterned on Stone), Cartman, Stan and Kenny (who invariably gets "killed" in each episode) utter four-letter words, spew vomit and fart. The amazing success of the show spawned the requisite tee-shirts, videos and other products, lent catchphrases like, "Oh my God! They killed Kenny! You bastards!" to popular culture and led to the network's offer of some $15 million to Parker and Stone to guarantee production of new episodes through the year 2000.
- Birthplace: Houston, Texas, USA
- Nationality: United States of America
- Series Written: South Park
- Episodes: Hooked on Monkey Fonics, Sexual Harassment Panda, Major Boobage, Rainforest Shmainforest, The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka
- Nancy Marie Pimental (born May 31, 1965) is an American actress and film and television writer.
- Birthplace: Boston, USA, Massachusetts
- Nationality: United States of America
- Series Written: South Park, Shameless
- Episodes: Summer Sucks, Daddyz Girl, Prehistoric Ice Man, City on the Edge of Forever, The Tooth Fairy Tats 2000
Philip Stark
Philip Stark is an American television and film screenwriter. A native of Houston, Texas, Stark graduated with a degree in Radio-Television-Film (RTF) from The University of Texas at Austin in 1995.He is best known for his film Dude, Where's My Car? from 2000, and he wrote the script for a sequel, Seriously Dude, Where's My Car, which did not make it into production. Prior to this, he was a writer and script editor for That '70s Show and he has also written for South Park. He is also the co-creator of Dog with a Blog. In 2000, along with his friend, animator Graham Robertson, Stark created the online cartoon parody of the Budweiser "Whassup?" commercial featuring clips from the Superfriends.Since June 2003, Stark has been working on the script for video-game comedy Rad Brad, Modern Warrior for New Line Cinema with Jack Black attached as a producer and possible lead.- Birthplace: Houston, Texas
- Nationality: United States of America
- Series Written: South Park, That '70s Show
- Episodes: Eric's Buddy, Whole Lotta Love (a.k.a. The Silent Treatment), Long Away, Cat Fight Club, My Fairy King
- Robert Lopez had a songwriting career that few could ever hope to achieve. Best known as a co-creator of the hit Broadway musicals "The Book of Mormon" (2011) and "Avenue Q" (2003), Lopez also penned the songs of the blockbuster animated Disney film "Frozen" (2013). Lopez found success on multiple fronts and was one of only a handful of people who won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony (colloquially known as "The EGOT").
- Birthplace: New York City, New York, USA
- Nationality: United States of America
- Series Written: Scrubs, South Park
- Episodes: Broadway Bro Down, My Musical
- Occasionally a TV show insinuates itself into popular culture shortly after its premiere, lending itself to parody and punchlines and giving the world catchphrases. Such was the case with "South Park" (Comedy Central, 1997- ), a crude and crudely animated series about four foul-mouthed third-graders in a fictional Colorado town. From its debut, "South Park" courted controversy and was variously described as "'Peanuts' on acid" and "a cartoon from hell." The substandard animation utilizing construction paper cut-outs masked the subversive comedy at the heart of the show. Nothing and no one was sacred; the show took demented glee in being politically incorrect as well as skewering cultural icons (like Barbra Streisand and David Caruso). The series was an offshoot of a short film made by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, "The Spirit of Christmas," which features a confrontation between Santa Claus and Jesus Christ over the holiday's true meaning. The pair also collaborated on the irreverent feature "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut" (1999).
- Birthplace: Conifer, Colorado, USA
- Nationality: United States of America
- Series Written: South Park, Time Warped, That's My Bush!
- Episodes: The Return of Chef, Fun with Veal, The Death of Eric Cartman, Quintuplets 2000, The Snuke
