Charlie Kirk would have wanted the South Park episode mocking him to continue airing, one of his show's executive producers has said.
Kirk, 31, was shot in the neck and killed at Utah Valley University on September 10. Tyler Robinson has been charged with aggravated murder in connection with the attack.
After Kirk’s assassination, Comedy Central quietly pulled the episode from its broadcast lineup, with the episode ‘Got a Nut’ removed from the rerun schedule on September 11.
Highlights
- Charlie Kirk was parodied in a South Park episode that was pulled shortly after his assassination on September 10, 2025.
- Andrew Kolvet, Kirk’s show producer, urged Comedy Central to reinstate the episode, saying Kirk loved and supported it.
- Kirk publicly praised the episode before his death, calling it hilarious and a sign of cultural impact.
- The episode features Cartman as a ‘master debater’ who mocks college students, with Kirk’s persona satirized throughout.
Andrew Kolvet said Charlie Kirk would want the South Park episode to air
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Online critics had even called for South Park to be cancelled in response to the episode.
But Kirk’s close friend and executive producer of The Charlie Kirk Show, Andrew Kolvet, has called for the episode to continue airing and says Kirk loved it.
“Hey @paramountplus, as someone who can speak with some authority on this, Charlie loved that he was featured in South Park. He told me many times. He would want the episode back up,” Kolvet wrote on X.
In the episode, Kirk is parodied by character Eric Cartman, a “master debater” who attends a college campus to debate with students.
One scene shows Cartman arguing with a female student about abortion rights, before the camera pulls back to show him sitting on a toilet seat.
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“I’m getting really good at this! I have my arguments down rock-solid, these young college girls are totally unprepared so I can just destroy them and, also, edit out all the ones who actually argue back well,” Cartman says at one point.
Kirk had publicly commented on the episode before his death and did not have an issue with the parody, describing the episode as hilarious.
He even changed the profile photo on The Charlie Kirk Show social media accounts to an image of Cartman portraying him.
Kirk said that the episode showed the “viral cultural domination” of the right was “so important and so impactful” that South Park was highlighting it.
The Turning Point USA co-founder also shared several posts about the episode on X, with one reading “Not bad, Cartman,” while another shared a Kalshi market about what Cartman would say while portraying him.
In a TikTok video, he shared snippets of the episode, which aired on August 6, and talked his viewers through the clips.
“We got our own award show as part of South Park, I was told going in ‘Charlie they say your name, that’s a big win’, well apparently there’s the Charlie Kirk award,” Kirk said.
Kirk then shared a clip of South Park’s mockup of the “Charlie Kirk Award for Young Masterdebaters.”
“There’s going to be a lot said about this, but we need to have a good spirit about being made fun of,” Kirk said in the video.
“This is all a success, this is all a win. We as conservatives, we have thick skin, not thin skin, and you can make fun of us, it doesn’t matter.
“Until next time, I hope all of you also become master debaters for truth.”