Isaac Hayes: Hypocrite?

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Originally Posted by Sarah Hall of Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/eo/20060313/en_tv_eo/18557)
Isaac Hayes, who has voiced the highly sexed cafeteria employee on the irreverent series since 1997, issued a statement Monday indicating that he has requested to be released from his contract due to what he called the show's "inappropriate ridicule of religious communities."

"There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins," the soul legend said. "Religious beliefs are sacred to people and at all times should be respected and honored. As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices."

Though Hayes, a devout Scientologist, made no reference to specific episodes that he felt crossed the line, series creator Matt Stone had little doubt that Hayes' decision was triggered by the November 2005 episode "Trapped in the Closet," which satirized the religion's beliefs and practices and featured "cameos" by animated versions of Tom Cruise and John Travolta.

"This is 100 percent having to do with his faith of Scientology," Stone told the Associated Press. "He has no problem—and he's cashed plenty of checks—with our show making fun of Christians."
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Past episodes of South Park have skewered Catholics, Jews and Mormons, among others. However, according to Stone, he and Parker "never heard a peep out of Isaac in any way until we did Scientology.

"He wants a different standard for religions other than his own, and to me, that is where intolerance and bigotry begin," Stone told the Associated Press.
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In January 2006, Hayes told the New York Daily News that he loved the "humor in it, the audacity of Matt and Trey."

"Nobody is exempt from their humor," he said. "They're equal-opportunity offenders. Don't be offended by it. If you take it too seriously, you have problems."

It seems the silky-voiced crooner may have neglected to take his own advice.I really liked Chef and (assuming they don't get a replacement for him) I will miss seeing him on the show. But Hayes' departure just reeks of hypocritical bullshït—something I've grown to be accustomed to when dealing with Hollywood's Scientologists.

[wendybeth]

I have to admit, I was surprised by Hayes' earlier comments regarding 'equal-opportunity offenders', and not at all surprised by his latest actions. He probably got called in for an audit, and no doubt realised he was not being a proper defender of the faith. :rolleyes:

[Moonliner]

Can't say I've ever watched South Park, but I do find myself wondering...

Have they ever taken a shot at Alla and/or Islam in general?

[Ghoulish Delight]

Lame. Shortly after that episode aired, I learned that he was a Scientologist and wondered what his reaction was. Too bad this was my answer.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Have they ever taken a shot at Alla and/or Islam in general?Yes.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

:mad: What a fvcktard. He should return all the money they've made him. Too bad the publicity he got from the show can't be taken away. His career was dead as a doornail when they dug him up.

[Gemini Cricket]

I think his departure is lame. I have to agree with Stone's quote here:
"In ten years and over 150 episodes of 'South Park,' Isaac never had a problem with the show making fun of Christians, Muslim, Mormons or Jews," Stone said in a statement issued by the Comedy Central network.
"He got a sudden case of religious sensitivity when it was his religion featured on the show."

Source (http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/03/13/south.park.hayes.reut/index.html)

I'm dying to find out what's to become of Chef. Replace his voice or kill him off. Should be interesting. You never know what they'll do next. I mean, these guys killed off Jesus in a Christmas episode for Christsake.
:D

[Scrooge McSam]

HE KILLED CHEF

YOU, BASTARD!!!

[wendybeth]

Lol, Scrooge!:snap:

He could be abducted by Scientology extremists, who subject him to ruthless auditing sessions until he runs out of money. Then, Kenny could run him over with his bike.

[Motorboat Cruiser]

I have a feeling his departure from the show was forced on him from the powers that be at the Church. Still very lame news.

[SacTown Chronic]

Say everybody have you seen my balls
they're big and salty and brown.
If you ever need a quick pick me up
just stick my balls in your mouth.

Oooo suck on my chocolate salted balls
stick em in your mouth, and suck em!
Suck on my chocolate salted balls,
they're packed full of vitamins, and good for you.
So suck on my balls.

[Kevy Baby]

So how long until there is an episode bashing Issac Hayes?

[Gemini Cricket]

So how long until there is an episode bashing Issac Hayes?
I'm thinking the 22nd. That's the day the first ep of this season premieres. They have time to fiddle with it. They'll probably address it right away.

[scaeagles]

Plot thickens a bit -

http://www.variety.com/VR1117939918.html

Apparently Comedy Central is being pressured not to air the schedules repeat of this episode.

[Gemini Cricket]

http://www.variety.com/VR1117939918.html
"So, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun! Temporarily anozinizing our episode will NOT stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies. Curses and drat! You have obstructed us for now, but your feeble bid to save humanity will fail! Hail Xenu!!!"

The duo signed the statement "Trey Parker and Matt Stone, servants of the dark lord Xenu."

:D :snap:

[wendybeth]

I knew they'd have fun with this.:D

[FEJ]

I really like Trey and Matt.

:D

"May I call you pigfvcker?"
No. Only my friends can call me Pigfvcker"

[Prudence]

Have I ever mentioned how much I think Scientology is like Manicheanism? Ah, glorious history repeats itself again.

[Kevy Baby]

How do I give Mojo to Matt & Trey?

[FEJ]

How do I give Mojo to Matt & Trey?

Just go To their profile (http://www.loungeoftomorrow.com/LoT/member.php?u=219)


:D

[Kevy Baby]

Just go To their profile (http://www.loungeoftomorrow.com/LoT/member.php?u=219)


:DLOL!

But that still won't let me give them Mojo.





And how is it that they, as member #219 have a join date of January 10, 2005 when member #s as low as 62 joined on January 11? *







* I'm such a geek

[Matt and Trey]

Mojo, don't you have to mojo a post?

[FEJ]

LOL!

But that still won't let me give them Mojo.



See post above you...




And how is it that they, as member #219 have a join date of January 10, 2005 when member #s as low as 62 joined on January 11? *







* I'm such a geek




It is called "Vulgar Abuse of Admin Power" :D

(I was hoping someone would catch that..did it on purpose)



Note:By the way, this will not be a regular practice, the sock puppet just fit the joke/thread too well. I hope the powers that be won't flog me too bad

[€uroMeinke]

Note:By the way, this will not be a regular practice, the sock puppet just fit the joke/thread too well. I hope the powers that be won't flog me too bad

As an admin, I'm afraid you will be required to flog yourself

[CoasterMatt]

I think flogging yourself is an entirely different thread altogether

[Kevy Baby]

Mojo, don't you have to mojo a post?How much mojo can a poster with only one post earn?

[Not Afraid]

As an admin, I'm afraid you will be required to flog yourself

Yes, and fellow admins get to watch.




Such a GEEK!

[€uroMeinke]

How much mojo can a poster with only one post earn?

When admins are invovlved anything is possible...

[Kevy Baby]

When admins are invovlved anything is possible...All I know is that they already have more than Übergeek

But then again, who doesn't

[wendybeth]

Oh, Uber's been mojo'd plenty.

He's just in denial.

[Gemini Cricket]

So Chef is starring in tomorrow's episode.
"While Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman are thrilled to have their old friend back, they notice that something about Chef seems different. When Chef's strange behavior starts getting him in trouble, the boys pull out all the stops to save him."
Source (http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=2006-03-21T003203Z_01_N20282496_RTRUKOC_0_US-LEISURE-SOUTHPARK.xml&archived=False)

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Interesting. I had a feeling that they would take this route and I'm happy they did.

[Gemini Cricket]

I'm wondering who the new voice will be. I'm hoping it's not one of Trey Parker's generic voices...
:)

[Cadaverous Pallor]

This is what I get for listening to crappy radio morning show "reporting". I can't find anything online to corroborate, but...

I heard something saying that Isaac Hayes' family denies that he quit the show on the grounds of Scientology. Hayes had a stroke in January and that's why he's been MIA. They also claimed that the Closet episode would be shown on Comedy Central again either tonight or tomorrow night.

This all sounds like BS, especially after reading the online articles, but I thought I'd throw it out there.

I can't wait to watch them rip him a new one. :evil:

[BarTopDancer]

This is what I get for listening to crappy radio morning show "reporting". I can't find anything online to corroborate, but...

I heard something saying that Isaac Hayes' family denies that he quit the show on the grounds of Scientology. Hayes had a stroke in January and that's why he's been MIA. They also claimed that the Closet episode would be shown on Comedy Central again either tonight or tomorrow night.


I'll corroborate that you wern't imagining hearing it ;). I heard that on KROQ this morning.

[Motorboat Cruiser]

I'm wondering who the new voice will be. I'm hoping it's not one of Trey Parker's generic voices...
:)


Who's voice would you like to hear? Who would make a good chef?

I'm thinking Emeril would be fun. Or perhaps, Gilbert Godfrey. :)

[Ghoulish Delight]

Robert Evans.

[Gemini Cricket]

Who's voice would you like to hear? Who would make a good chef?

I'm thinking Emeril would be fun. Or perhaps, Gilbert Godfrey. :)
I'm thinking it should be someone completely unexpected. Yes, kind of like Gilbert Godfrey. That would be hysterical.
:D

[Motorboat Cruiser]

I'm thinking it should be someone completely unexpected. Yes, kind of like Gilbert Godfrey. That would be hysterical.
:D

I guess Travolta is out of the question.

:)

[Scrooge McSam]

I guess Travolta is out of the question.

:)

ROFL I'm thinking so!

[Gemini Cricket]

I just watched the season premiere episode...
Meh. :shrug:

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Yeah, I thought the opening and closing were strong and very funny. The rest, not so much.

[Snowflake]

The timing on this is amazing, curious to see if this (http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=622&Lot_No=20273) will result in a good price?

[FEJ]

I thought they handled it well. Let their feelings be known without being to rough.

the funeral speech was great.

[tracilicious]

So they killed him off?

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Sort of.

Have you seen the Star Wars films?

[Gemini Cricket]

So they killed him off?
Let's see, they burned him, dropped him off of a cliff, had him hit several rocks as he fell, impaled him with a tree, had him attacked by a mountain lion, had his face and limbs torn off by a bear... let's see, I think that's it. Oh, that's right, he sh!t himself as he 'died'. :D

[Hades]

I wonder if Kenny's ghost got pissed that Chef was stealing his act!:p ;)

[scaeagles]

To resurrect this thread rather than starting a new one on Southpark....well, I guess this applies more to comedy central than to Southpark.

Matt and Trey are equal opportunity offenders, so I hold nothing against them. However, Comedy Central finds it necessary to black out the cartoonish Mohammed, but it's OK to have Jesus defacating on several things in the same episode.

I did not witness this, I have only read/heard about it. Is this truly what happened? I have never actually watched Southpark, so I really don't know.

[SacTown Chronic]

Using Jesus to highlight the pussyosity and hypocrisy of Comedy Central was genius.

Maybe you Christians need to become violent in order to get the respect you deserve.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Matt and Trey are equal opportunity offenders, so I hold nothing against them. However, Comedy Central finds it necessary to black out the cartoonish Mohammed, but it's OK to have Jesus defacating on several things in the same episode.

I did not witness this, I have only read/heard about it. Is this truly what happened?Yup, sure is.

Which was the whole point of the episode. M&T's claim (as voiced by Kyle in the episode) is that either everything is okay to make of, or nothing is.

[Not Afraid]

Yeah, I don't understand why they would censor some and not other offending stuff. Fear perhaps. I would hope that Christians have gotten enough ridicult lately to be able to take a joke. Maybe the Muslims' sense of humor is on the fritz.

[FEJ]

Using Jesus to highlight the pussyosity and hypocrisy of Comedy Central was genius.

Maybe you Christians need to become violent in order to get the respect you deserve.


Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition..

[Ghoulish Delight]

I'm pretty sure that "Comedy Central refueses to show it" thing was part of the joke, folks.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

I'm pretty sure that "Comedy Central refueses to show it" thing was part of the joke, folks.That's not the impression I got from reading these:
story 1 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/13/AR2006041302212.html)
story 2 (http://volokh.com/posts/1144984968.shtml)

South Park Studios (http://www.southparkstudios.com/)

[Ghoulish Delight]

Interesting. If it's true, that's just sickening...but I'm a bit suspicious, only because I've seen the Scientology episode since CS supposedly pulled it.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

I'm not sure the "pulling" of the Scientology episode (Trapped in the Closet (http://www.southparkstudios.com/show/display_episode.php?season=9&id1=912&id2=141)) was quite the same as the pulling of the "stigmata" episode (Bloody Mary (http://www.southparkstudios.com/show/display_episode.php?season=9&id1=914&id2=143)). My impression is that Bloody Mary was pulled from future broadcasts specifically because of protests from Catholics (the producers/CC have said as much) whereas Trapped in the Closet's missing repeat the same week of Hayes' departure was just to let temperatures cool down for a bit. I don't recall reading anything about an official protest over TitC, other than rumors of Tom Cruise's alleged refusal to promote Mission Impossible 3 if it wasn't pulled. Do I think Cruise is capable of such shenanigans? Hell yes! But until I hear something from Matt & Trey confirming the rumors, I'm not going to jump to that conclusion.

[Not Afraid]

Why don't you send the guys a PM?

http://www.loungeoftomorrow.com/LoT/member.php?u=219


:evil: