Matt Stone

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Matt Stone

Birth name	Matthew Richard Stone
Born	May 26, 1971 (age 35) Houston, Texas, USA
Notable roles'	Various in South Park Doug Remer in BASEketball Chris in Team America: World Police

Matthew Richard Stone (born May 26, 1971) is an Emmy-winning American animator, film director, screenwriter, actor and voice actor. Along with Trey Parker, he is one of the creators of the hit animated television series South Park.

1 Early life
2 Bowling for Columbine and Michael Moore feud
3 Musical career
4 Trivia
5 Filmography
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Early life

Stone was born in Houston, Texas, to Gerald Whitney Stone, an Irish Catholic economics professor, and Sheila Lois Belasco, a Jewish homemaker,^[1] (and are the basis for Gerald and Sheila Broflovski). He was raised in the Denver suburb of Littleton, Colorado, though contrary to popular belief, he did not attend Columbine High School but rather Heritage High School in Littleton. He holds degrees in film and mathematics from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

In 1997, Comedy Central debuted South Park, now in its eleventh season, which he and his college friend Trey Parker created. He was said to be the basis for the character of Kyle Broflovski on the show.

[edit] Bowling for Columbine and Michael Moore feud

In 2002, Stone was interviewed for the Michael Moore documentary Bowling for Columbine, where he mostly discusses his experiences growing up in Littleton, and the social alienation that might have driven situations such as the Columbine High School massacre. In the film, there is a short animated segment about the history of guns, presented in a tone and animation style similar to that of South Park.

Stone expressed anger over what he saw as a misleading attempt by Moore to insinuate that he and Trey Parker had produced the animation, when in fact they had actually turned down a request from Moore to contribute a similar short to the film. Subsequently, Stone and Parker portrayed Moore, in their film Team America: World Police, as a suicide bomber who is shown interviewing people outside of Mount Rushmore, and telling them to say bad things about Team America in front of a camera. Stone later stated that he does "not really hate the guy" and feels he has evened the score.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Musical career

Stone is also a member of the band DVDA with Parker, for which he plays drums and bass. DVDA's songs have appeared in South Park. They include "Chewbacca", or "I am Chewbacca", at the end of the episode "Starvin' Marvin in Space", "Montage", during the episode "Asspen", Orgazmo ("Now You're a Man"), BASEketball ("Warts on Your Dick"), South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut ("What Would Brian Boitano Do? Pt. II," "Hell Isn't Good" with lead vocals by James Hetfield of Metallica) and Team America: World Police ("America, Fuck Yeah," "Everyone Has AIDS," "Only A Woman" and a new version of "Montage"). There are also several previously unheard live songs made by them called "Crack" (or "Everybody Loves Crack"), "David Kelley, TV Warrior" and a cover of the Primus song "Sgt. Baker" (in a live recording of this song, Parker notes the reason for the cover is because Primus were the only other band they've opened for). He also appeared as a guest producer on the third track - entitled 'Natural Joe' - of Primus's 1999 album Antipop.

The name for the band comes from a sexual position (double vaginal, double anal), which was mentioned in Parker and Stone's film Orgazmo.

[edit] Trivia

Stone is a Libertarian,[1] but has equivocated about this, as he previously claimed to be a registered Republican.
He claimed to have been on acid with Trey Parker at the time of the 2000 Academy Awards, where they wore dresses popularized by Jennifer Lopez and Gwyneth Paltrow at previous awards shows (and not much else).[2]
Stone is a supporter of skepticism and appeared with Parker at TAM5, a convention exploring skepticism of the media in January 2007.
Stone is a good friend of ER actor, John Stamos.
He said that if he wasn't a cartoonist anymore, he would want Carson Daly's job.
Is semifluent in Spanish.

[edit] Filmography

[edit] Collaborations with Trey Parker

Cannibal! The Musical (1994): actor, co-writer, producer
The Spirit of Christmas (Jesus vs. Santa, 1996; Jesus vs. Frosty, 1992)
Orgazmo (1997): actor, co-writer, producer
South Park (TV series, 1997-present): co-creator, voices, writer, additional music, executive producer
BASEketball (1998): actor
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999): voices, co-writer, producer
"Even If You Don't" by Ween (music video, 2000): director
That's My Bush! (TV series, 2001): co-creator, writer, executive producer
Team America: World Police (2004): co-writer, voices, producer
My All American (TBA 2008)
Giant Monsters Attack Japan (sometime in 2009)