'South Park' has fun with Kanye West's ego

For the second time in four weeks, the boys at "South Park" have had some fun with our pop-music icons. After mocking the Jonas Brothers' empire, this week it was Kanye West and his alleged over-sized ego that was under attack.

The episode, available in its entirety online, came complete with a send-up of West's emotional "808s & Heartbreak," boasting a finale that derided that electronically enhanced Auto-Tune vocals that permeate the album. More fun, however, was the above clip from earlier in the episode, when West tried to tap into his "genius" superpowers to solve a schoolyard joke.

Entitled "Fishsticks," the episode's plot is based entirely around West's inability to get a joke. When West fails to see the humor, his natural assumption is that he was the target of the elementary school prank. This, despite the fact that the joke is sweeping the nation.

West hasn't reacted to the episode yet on his blog, although he did a post a piece of art he's fond of this morning. The drawing? An illustration of West's face, naturally.

-- Todd Martens

Comments

[kevin]

That episode was absolutely hilarious. The ending had me in stitches.

[John]

You might want to warn readers that the clip above is uncensored.

[Brad Neal]

Brilliant writing again and again. I would pay big bucks to see big ego no talent West's reaction to this one. He had it coming. The South Park show is one of the few sources of honest information. They always tell it like it is.

[JournalRhythm]

there's a cartoon South Park it's ornery
and last night it laid the smack down on Kanye
funny thing is it actually made him twitch
and he'll prolly think about it next time he eats fishsticks

wrote about it in a blog post today
how's he's trying not to be a douchebag per se
pointed out the difference between rap and real life
and how people like Little Wayne are so nice

to listen to me rap my full opinion, visit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXIyy3wJCfg