"Charlie Kirk Show" Producer Says Late Commentator 'Loved' Being in "South Park", Would Want Rerun Back on Comedy Central Carson BlackwelderSeptember 19, 2025 at 7:08 AM 21 Comedy Central; Nordin Catic/Getty Eric Cartman in 'South Park'; Charlie Kirk Andrew Kolvet, an executive producer for The Char...
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Carson BlackwelderSeptember 19, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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Andrew Kolvet, an executive producer for The Charlie Kirk Show and a Turning Point USA spokesperson, is calling on Paramount to reinstate reruns of the South Park episode paraodying Kirk
The episode originally aired Aug. 6 but Comedy Central took down reruns from the network's linear rotation following Kirk's death on Sept. 10, PEOPLE previously confirmed
In a statement on X on Sept. 18, Kolvet said Kirk "loved" that he was featured on South Park and "would want the episode back up"
At least one person close to Charlie Kirk is calling on Paramount to reverse its decision to pull the recent episode of South Park featuring the right-wing commentator after his death.
Andrew Kolvet, an executive producer for The Charlie Kirk Show and a spokesperson for Turning Point USA, Kirk's nonprofit that advocates for conservative politics on high school, college and university campuses, took to X on Thursday, Sept. 18, to explain why he believes the episode should be reinstated.
"Hey @paramountplus, as someone who can speak with some authority on this, Charlie loved that he was featured in South Park. He told me many times," Kolvet wrote. "He would want the episode back up."
The episode in question is the second episode of season 27, which originally aired Aug. 6 and is titled "Got a Nut."
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Eric Cartman on 'South Park'
In the episode, Eric Cartman takes issue with classmate Clyde Donovan and accuses him of "stealing my shtick" for starting a right-wing podcast and "masterdebating" those who don't agree with his beliefs. Cartman adopts Kirk's real-life hairstyle and starts his own competing and successful podcast, but Clyde ultimately wins the "Charlie Kirk Award for Young Masterdebaters" — and a vacation to Mar-a-Lago — over him.
After it aired, Kirk shared a TikTok in which he called the episode "hilarious" and claimed it acknowledged the "viral, cultural domination" of the ideals he stood for.
"There's gonna be a lot said about this, but we need to have a good spirit about being made fun of," he said on Aug. 7. "This is all a success. This is all a win. We, as conservatives, we have thick skin. Not thin skin. You can make fun of us. It doesn't matter. Until next time, I hope all of you become 'masterdebaters' for truth."
Kirk was shot and killed while speaking at an event at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10. He was 31.
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Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah on Sept. 10, 2025
Following Kirk's death, PEOPLE confirmed that Comedy Central would not air the episode as reruns in its linear rotation. However, the episode remained available to stream on Paramount+ and CC On Demand.
Though Kolvet asked for the South Park episode featuring Kirk to be reinstated, he has been celebrating ABC's decision to pull Jimmy Kimmel Live! "indefinitely" from the air.
"Kimmel out 'indefinitely' at ABC after falsely claiming the assassin was part of MAGA. This was a bottom up revolt from affiliates and ABC folded," he wrote on X shortly after the news broke on Wednesday, Sept. 17. "Good. He's now free to start a podcast where no one can fire him for saying deranged nonsense."
"The firing of Jimmy Kimmel is not an attack on free speech, it's conservatives finally using ours," he added in another X post on Wednesday, Sept. 17.
On Thursday, Sept. 18, Kolvet posted on X, writing, "Jimmy Kimmel is not a martyr. Charlie is."
Kolvet's post referenced broadcast companies Nexstar and Sinclair pulling Kimmel's show off the air on affiliate ABC networks following the host's recent remarks about Kirk.
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Jimmy Kimmel (L); Charlie Kirk (R)
During the comedian's opening monologue on the Monday, Sept. 15, episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, he spoke of Kirk and Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old who has been charged with aggravated murder in connection with Kirk's death.
"We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it," he said. "In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving."
Kimmel then showed clips of President Donald Trump being asked about Kirk's death, with one reporter offering him their condolences and asking how he's holding up.
"I think very good, and by the way, right there where you see all the trucks, they just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House," Trump replied, adding the new ballroom at the White House will "be a beauty."
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Jimmy Kimmel on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live'
"Yes," Kimmel said as the camera cut back to him, "he's at the fourth stage of grief: construction."
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In the wake of Kirk's murder, Kimmel took to social media to offer condolences to Kirk's family.
"Instead of the angry finger-pointing, can we just for one day agree that it is horrible and monstrous to shoot another human?" he wrote at the time. "On behalf of my family, we send love to the Kirks and to all the children, parents and innocents who fall victim to senseless gun violence."
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