"South Park" is backing off President Donald Trump, not because the creators of the satirical adult animated series like him but because they say they can't keep up with him.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone told current events show "7.30" that American politics have been "much funnier than anything we could come up with," reported the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
"It's tricky now because satire has become reality," said Parker. "It's really hard to make fun of and in the last season of 'South Park,' which just ended a month and a half ago, we were really trying to make fun of what was going on, but we couldn't keep up."
"And what was actually happening was much funnier than anything we could come up with. So we decided to kind of back off and let them do their comedy and we'll do ours."
"People say to us all the time, 'Oh, you guys are getting all this good material,' like we're happy about some of this stuff that's happening," said Stone. "But I don't know if that's true. It doesn't feel that way."
"South Park" has parodied Trump numerous times before, noted Rolling Stone magazine, including after the November election when the series mocked Trump and former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
In another episode last September, the character Mr. Garrison led a campaign against Canadian legal immigrants, poking fun at Trump's stance on illegal immigrant during the presidential campaign.
"South Park" has poked fun at celebrities and cultural issues since 1997 on Comedy Central.
Parker and Stone have experienced their share of controversy with the Emmy Award-winning series. In 2010, an episode of series that portrayed the Islamic prophet Muhammad in a bear costume was censored by Comedy Central after an extremist Muslim group allegedly issued a death threat, according to The Guardian.
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