The current series of South Park (which is now serialised, as opposed to its usual episodic nature) is proof that directors Matt Stone and Trey Parker still have the ability to send-up America like no other satirists. The show, now in its 19th season, has so far taken on PC culture, Caitlin Jenner, and gentrification in its first seven episodes, expertly nailing the US's growing moral bankruptcy. Of course, they have form in doing this, the best example of it comic here, in Team America: World Police, their pull-no-punches puppet film from 2004, which took on everyone from North Korea to the Taliban to Matt Damon. A searing attack on US foreign policy and the idea of America as a world-saving global superpower, Team America might be the funniest cult film ever made. Space limits me to listing only a couple of moments which make the film a cult masterpiece, and here they are: the sex-scene, one which had to be cut numerous times despite containing no actual humans (imagine that, a film parodying censorship that has its most audacious scene censored, how perfect), and the theme song, "America, F*ck Yeah", a hilarious, spot on parody song for the ages.
