Matt Stone

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Matthew Richard Stone (born May 26, 1971) is an Emmy-winning American animator, film director, screenwriter, actor and voice actor. He is one of the co-creators along with Trey Parker of the hit animated television series South Park.

1 Pre-Fame
2 Bowling For Columbine and Michael Moore feud
3 Musical career
4 Trivia
5 Filmography
- 5.1 Collaborations with Trey Parker
- 5.2 Voices on South Park
6 External links

[edit] Pre-Fame

Stone was born in Houston, Texas, to Gerald Whitney Stone and Sheila Lois Belasco (Who are the basis for Gerald and Shiela Broflovski), a secular Sephardic Jew. He was raised in the Denver suburb of Littleton, Colorado, though contrary to popular belief, he did not attend Columbine High School but rather Heritage High School in Littleton, a cross-town rival of Columbine. He holds degrees in film and mathematics from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

In 1997, Comedy Central debuted South Park, which he and his friend Trey Parker created. He was said to be the basis for the character of Kyle Broflovski on the show, which is now in its tenth season.

[edit] Bowling For Columbine and Michael Moore feud

In 2002, Stone was interviewed for the Michael Moore documentary Bowling for Columbine, where he mostly discusses his experiences growing up in Littleton, and the social alienation that might have driven situations such as the Columbine High School massacre. In the film, there is a short animated segment about the history of guns, presented in a tone and animation style similar to that of South Park.

Stone expressed anger over what he saw as a misleading attempt by Moore to insinuate that he and Trey Parker had produced the animation, when in fact they had actually turned down a request from Moore to contribute a similar short to the film. Subsequently, Stone and Parker portrayed Moore, in their film Team America: World Police, as a suicide bomber who is revealed to have been made of ham. Stone later stated that he does "not really hate the guy" and feels he has evened the score.

[edit] Musical career

Stone is also a member of the band DVDA with Trey Parker, for which he plays drums and bass. DVDA's songs have appeared in South Park, usually unnoticed. They include: Chewbacca, or I am Chewbacca, at the end of the episode "Starvin Marvin in Space", Orgazmo ("Now You're a Man"), BASEketball ("Warts on Your Dick"), South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut ("What Would Brian Boitano Do? Pt. II," "Hell Isn't Good" with lead vocals by James Hetfield of Metallica) and Team America: World Police ("America, Fuck Yeah," "Everyone Has AIDS," "Only A Woman" and "Montage"). There are also several previously unheard live songs made by them called "Crack" (or "Everybody Loves Crack"), "David Kelley, TV Warrior" and a cover of the Primus song "Sgt. Baker" (In a live recording of this song, Trey Parker notes the reason for the cover is because Primus were the only other band they've opened for). He also appeared as a guest producer on the third track - entitled 'Natural Joe' - of Primus's 1999 album Antipop.

The name for the band comes from a rare sexual position (double vaginal, double anal) mentioned (although not depicted) in Parker and Stone's film Orgazmo.

[edit] Trivia

Stone is a Libertarian [[1]], but has equivocated about this, as he previously claimed to be a registered Republican. ^{[citation needed]}
He claimed to have been on acid with Trey Parker at the time of the 2000 Oscars, where they wore dresses popularized by Jennifer Lopez and Gwyneth Paltrow at previous awards shows (and not much else). [[2]]

[edit] Filmography

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[edit] Collaborations with Trey Parker

My All American (TBA 2007/2008)
Giant Monsters Attack Japan (TBA 2006/2007)
Team America: World Police (2004): co-writer, voices, producer
That's My Bush! (TV series, 2001): co-creator, writer, executive producer
"Even If You Don't" by Ween (music video, 2000): director
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999): voices, co-writer, producer
BASEketball (1998): actor
South Park (TV series, 1997-present): co-creator, voices, writer, additional music, executive producer
Orgazmo (1997): actor, co-writer, producer
The Spirit of Christmas (Jesus vs. Santa, 1996; Jesus vs. Frosty, 1992)
Cannibal! The Musical (1994): actor, co-writer, producer