10 Most Controversial Comedies Of All Time

Trey Parker and Matt Stone were no strangers to controversy by the time they released this delightfully offensive action movie. The team's second film, Orgazmo, which tells that time-honoured tale of a Mormon missionary who reluctantly finds his way into the porn industry, was unfairly shafted with an NC-17 rating. And South Park has, at one time or another, offended just about everyone with a pulse over its 20-year run.

But there was something different about Team America. Something meaner, if that's even possible.

It's not just in the way they slash into the political landscape, either (though the overarching haymakers directed toward Kim Jong-il and America's failed "war on terror" are as antagonistic as they are brilliant.) They also stab more viciously at every actor who's ever used their soapbox to express their pacifism.

This, naturally, didn't sit well with many of the liberal-leaning actors they skewered, nor most "serious" film critics. The first teaser trailers for the film noted the potential fallout in the tagline: "Alec Baldwin, George Clooney, Janeane Garofalo, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Sean Penn, Michael Moore, George W. Bush, John Kerry, Kim Jong-Il .... will all HATE this movie!"

Rather amazingly, Team America seemed to stir more controversy at home than it did abroad, with nary a peep coming from North Korea. Still, all the puppet sex and overall nihilism created plenty of dissension stateside.