oh noes issac hayes(chef) leaves south park - Tuner-Junction

chris_s14 · #1 (**permalink**) March 14th, 2006, 02:06 AM

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Soul singer Isaac Hayes quits "South Park"
Monday March 13 7:14 PM ET

Veteran soul singer Isaac Hayes, voice of the libidinous character "Chef" on the satiric cable TV cartoon "South Park," said on Monday he was quitting the show, citing its "inappropriate ridicule" of religion.

"There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs ... begins," Hayes said in a statement.

Hayes, 63, a devoted follower of the Church of Scientology, did not mention a "South Park" episode that aired last fall poking fun at Scientology and some of its celebrity adherents, including actor Tom Cruise.

Rather, Hayes said the show's parody of religion is part of what he saw as a "growing insensitivity toward personal spiritual beliefs" in the media generally, including the recent controversy over cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad.

The singer, who became the first black composer to win an Oscar for best song with his theme to the film "Shaft," said he formally asked to be released from his contract with "South Park," on the Comedy Central cable channel.

A spokesman for the Viacom Inc.-owned network said producers of the show and its creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, had agreed not to "enforce" Hayes' contract.

"Obviously, Matt and Trey are disappointed that he's not going to be part of the show, but they're not going to make him do something he doesn't want to do," the spokesman, Tony Fox, told Reuters.

However, he said Stone and Parker "feel that it's a bit disingenuous (for Hayes) to cite religious intolerance as a reason for him pulling out of the show" because the series has lampooned religion since its start, taking shots at Catholics, Jews, Muslims and Mormons, among others.

The series grew out of two short films by Parker and Stone, "Jesus vs. Frosty" and "The Spirit of Christmas," the latter featuring a martial-arts duel between Jesus and Santa Claus over the true meaning of Christmas.

"Their premise is as long as you can make fun of everybody, then everybody is a potential target," Fox said. "The minute you start pulling punches, then the show's reason for being sort of gets compromised."

The crudely animated cartoon, heading into its 10th season next week as one of Comedy Central's biggest hits, centers on the antics of four foul-mouthed fourth graders in the town of South Park, Colorado.

Hayes joined the show in 1997, supplying the baritone voice of Jerome "Chef" McElroy, the rotund school cafeteria cook whom the boys often seek out for advice.

In an episode last fall, one of the gang, Stan, scores so high on a Scientology test that church followers think he is the next L. Ron Hubbard, the late science-fiction writer who founded the religion. Hayes did not take part in that episode.

In an interview with Reuters late last year, Hayes talked about a foundation he formed to bring Scientology-based study techniques to disadvantaged inner-city schools, in partnership with fellow devotee Lisa Marie Presley.

"But it's not religious," he said then. "It's just something that people need."

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/va/20060313/114231080300.html

oh noes

loon · #2 (**permalink**) March 14th, 2006, 02:08 AM

his nigga ass got arrested.

Tony_Bolony · #3 (**permalink**) March 14th, 2006, 02:22 AM

you bastard i was just gonna post that lol o well.

it was ok for them to make fun of jews, christians, catholics, buddhists etc, but when they talked about scientologists, he got offended. he will truly be missed on that show, but o well. i think it'll do ok without him.

loon · #4 (**permalink**) March 14th, 2006, 02:24 AM

he was barely on it anyways, got damn lazy naggers

Tony_Bolony · #5 (**permalink**) March 14th, 2006, 03:03 AM

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Originally Posted by loon

he was barely on it anyways, got damn lazy naggers

gawd damn mongorians!

NegroDamus · #6 (**permalink**) March 14th, 2006, 11:53 AM

Bitch ass nigga, im sure he got shit from his Scientology friends about that episode and had to quit.

JaySlide · #7 (**permalink**) March 14th, 2006, 01:23 PM

eh well, time to introduce a cooler character

Tony_Bolony · #8 (**permalink**) March 14th, 2006, 09:57 PM

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Originally Posted by JaySlide

eh well, time to introduce a cooler character

liiiike?

loon · #9 (**permalink**) March 14th, 2006, 10:17 PM

an asian who speaks black, was up ma niccuh.

suicide_pinai · #10 (**permalink**) March 21st, 2006, 08:53 AM

This is the Scientology episode on South Park that Tom Cruise tried to get taken off the air and why Isaac Hayes quit playing the voice of Chef.

Don't forget to watch the credits at the end lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSj9gc36Bw8&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fthesuperfici al%2Ecom%2F

s2kpr · #11 (**permalink**) March 21st, 2006, 09:45 AM

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Originally Posted by loon

an asian who speaks black, was up ma niccuh.

Type_R_Mike · #12 (**permalink**) March 22nd, 2006, 10:30 PM

wow, it just ended and i wanted to see anyonelses response, if they saw it

and is anyone watching mind of mencia?

Ricky · #13 (**permalink**) March 22nd, 2006, 10:36 PM

moved to tv forum

Type_R_Mike · #14 (**permalink**) March 22nd, 2006, 10:36 PM

thank you, i noticed that right after i posted, i apologize

Johnlude85 · #15 (**permalink**) March 22nd, 2006, 10:39 PM

i didnt see it, what was it about.

is your sig from requium?

Type_R_Mike · #16 (**permalink**) March 22nd, 2006, 10:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Johnlude85

i didnt see it, what was it about.

is your sig from requium?

well you heard issac hayes left because tom cruze got pissed about the scientology episode? and issac is a scientologist, so he left, and they pretty much cut and pasted a bunch of words of his together, and it was really f__ked up

and yes it is from requiem

Johnlude85 · #17 (**permalink**) March 22nd, 2006, 10:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Type_R_Mike

well you heard issac hayes left because tom cruze got pissed about the scientology episode? and issac is a scientologist, so he left, and they pretty much cut and pasted a bunch of words of his together, and it was really f__ked up

and yes it is from requiem

damn, if i knew it was on i woulda watched. i forgot.

Tony_Bolony · #18 (**permalink**) March 22nd, 2006, 10:52 PM

i have actually not read this yet, since it is only 752 out here. i got 2 more hours to go so hopefully its a good one.

Type_R_Mike · #19 (**permalink**) March 22nd, 2006, 10:52 PM

idk if they are gona show it again, they probably will, but i bet there will be a whole bunch of s#!t about it. especialy from issac hayes and tom cruze lol

Type_R_Mike · #20 (**permalink**) March 22nd, 2006, 10:54 PM

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Originally Posted by ALtronX

i have actually not read this yet, since it is only 752 out here. i got 2 more hours to go so hopefully its a good one.

if you heard about the whole chef thing, and know about what they did, then this will be really funny, if not, read the old post in this section