8 Comedians Who Received Serious Death Threats For Their Jokes

2. Trey Parker & Matt Stone

The creators of South Park would happily write your mother into an episode as a giant sea urchin if they knew it would rile you up. In their business, controversy is currency, after all. And they've gotten rich and famous from people who love to hate them. There are very few topics that Trey Parker and Matt Stone haven't lambasted in their cartoon series over the last 19 seasons. And if they've avoided any controversial subjects, it's only because they don't consider them important enough to sink their claws into. Because if they've proved nothing else, it's that they welcome threats of violence against them. Before the airing of a highly publicized episode of a Season 14 episode that was to depict the prophet Muhammad dressed in a bear costume, for reasons that only make sense in the South Park Universe. But following threats from a New York-based Muslim extremist group that they would slash the creators' throats if they went through with the episode, Comedy Central decided to censor all references to Muhammad. The weird thing is that this was the third time Parker and Stone had written the prophet into their show and had never felt this kind of backlash or received any death threats in the first two instances.