MATT STONE

'Matthew Richard "Matt" Stone' (born May 26, 1971) is an American animator, screenwriter, film director, voice actor and actor. Along with Trey Parker, he is one of the creators of the critically-acclaimed animated television series, ''South Park''.

Contents

Biography

Early life

Career

''Bowling for Columbine''

Filmography

Collaborations with Trey Parker

Other films

References

External links

Biography

Early life

Stone was born in Houston, Texas, to Gerald Whitney Stone, an economics professor, and Sheila Lois Belasco, a homemaker. Stone's mother is Jewish, his father is of Irish extraction,^[1] and Stone "grew up agnostic"^[2] Stone was raised in the Denver suburb of Littleton, Colorado. He lived near, but did not attend Columbine High School, contrary to popular belief. He holds a degree in mathematics from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Career

In 1997, Comedy Central debuted ''South Park'', now in its eleventh season, which he and his college friend Trey Parker created. Stone was said to be the basis for the character of Kyle Broflovski on the show.
Stone is also a member of the band DVDA with Parker, for which he plays drums and bass. DVDA's songs have appeared in ''South Park''. They include "Chewbacca", or "I Am Chewbacca", at the end of the episode "Starvin' Marvin in Space", "Montage", during the episode "Asspen", ''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 a new version of "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, Parker notes the reason for the cover is because Primus was the only other band they'd opened for).
He also appeared as a guest producer on the third track - entitled 'Natural Joe' - of Primus's 1999 album ''Antipop''.
Stone claimed to have been on acid with Trey Parker at the time of the 2000 Academy Awards, where they wore dresses popularized by Jennifer Lopez and Gwyneth Paltrow at previous awards shows. ^[3]

''Bowling for Columbine''

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 '', as a suicide bomber who is shown interviewing people outside of Mount Rushmore, and telling them to say bad things about Team America in front of a camera. When asked about the conflict in an interview, Stone clarified, "I don't really hate the guy. I disagree with him politically about as strong as you can."^[4].

Filmography

Collaborations with Trey Parker

★ ''Cannibal! The Musical'' (1994): actor, co-writer, producer

★ ''The Spirit of Christmas'' (''Jesus vs. Santa'', 1995; ''Jesus vs. Frosty'', 1992)

★ ''Orgazmo'' (1997): actor, co-writer, producer

★ ''South Park'' (TV series, 1997-present): co-creator, voices, writer, additional music, executive producer

★ ''BASEketball'' (1998): actor

★ '' (1999): voices, co-writer, producer

★ "Even If You Don't" by Ween (music video, 2000): director

★ ''That's My Bush!'' (TV series, 2001): co-creator, writer, executive producer

★ '' (2004): co-writer, voices, producer

★ ''My All American'' (TBA 2008)

★ ''Giant Monsters Attack Japan!'' (sometime in 2009)

Other films

★ Bowling for Columbine (2003): Guest Appearance

★ (to be released 2007): Tom "the taper"

★ This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006): Interviewed
===Voices on "South Park"===


★ Kyle and his father, Gerald

★ Kenny and his father, Stuart

★ Jimbo Kern

★ Jesus

★ Butters

★ Saddam Hussein

★ Big Gay Al

★ Pip

★ Terrance

★ Tweek

★ Jimmy's father

★ Priest Maxi

★ Kevin

★ Mr. Adler the shop teacher

★ Various others

References

1. http://www.jewishaz.com/jewishnews/980522/kyle.shtml
2. http://www.southparkstudios.com/fans/staffchats.php
3. Interview: Trey Parker and Matt Stone
4. "Team America: World Police — Matt Stone Q&A." ''IndieLondon''

External links

★ Matt Stone at the Official South Park Website

★

★ mattstone.info

★ Fresh Air Interview [1]