

The show launched on 13 August 1997 with a Leo Sun opposition Jupiter in Aquarius with a showbizzy Mars in last degree Libra square Neptune and Neptune square Saturn – to give it an edge of cruelty and sting to the barbs. Russell Crowe on the other hand took his pasting with good humour. The Tom Cruise episode Trapped in the Closet sees Cruise, John Travolta and R Kelly spend much of the show in the closet. Celebrities by the yard are insulted and torn apart. South Park launched in 1997 and responds ‘at speed to gossip and global events with timely filth and fury.’ Everything from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine which essentially argues that an ageing Putin declared war over his failure to get an erection to Kanye West’s newfound anti-Semitism. Not only are their faux pleas for privacy mocked so are the audience who proclaim them boring while demanding more information constantly. ‘The Dumb Prince and His Stupid Wife’, represented as nightmare celebrity neighbours, are on a Worldwide Privacy Tour, featuring his autobiography Waaagh. South Park, the US take-no-hostages animated satire show has skewered the Sussexes.
