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‘South Park’ Will Continue Dumping on Trump (Literally!) With Season 29 Premiere Date

Trey Parker and Matt Stone confirmed the show would return in September, with new episodes running through late November

‘South Park’ Will Continue Dumping on Trump (Literally!) With Season 29 Premiere Date

Satan and Donald Trump in a Season 28 episode of ‘South Park.’

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By Jon BlisteinMay 19, 2026
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After a blockbuster 28th season, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone revealed that the long-running animated series would return for Season 29 in September.

The duo announced the Sept. 16 premiere date during an appearance Jimmy Kimmel Live! Monday. Comedy Central confirmed the news in a press release, revealing that additional episodes would air Sept. 30, Oct. 14, Oct. 28, Nov. 11, and Nov. 25.

In classic South Park fashion, the news was accompanied by a 10-second promo that featured Cartman sitting on a toilet, trying to shit, insisting, “Hang on, hang on,” before the release was finally revealed.

While previous seasons of South Park have comprised between 10 to 15 episodes, and sometimes more, in recent years, Parker and Stone have whittled the number down to about five or six. Despite this decrease, the show has never been more popular and pointed, its famously off-the-cuff production schedule allowing Parker and Stone to respond to, and satirize, the world in nearly real time.

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For instance, Season 28 of South Park, which aired last fall, regularly roped in contemporaneous events, from ongoing ICE raids to Kimmel’s brief suspension from ABC following a joke he made about the man accused of killing Charlie Kirk. There was also a season-long storyline involving Donald Trump in a dysfunctional relationship with Satan, while they made J.D. Vance into the second coming of Tattoo from Fantasy Island.


On Kimmel last night, Parker spoke about the show’s longevity and how much care they still put into it. “We still do everything ourselves the way that we did,” he said. “When we’re doing a new season, it’s like we’re the band going in to make another album. We don’t know what’s going to come out. And after, like, 30 years, a lot of the same people that we’ve done the show with are still there doing it with us. We should have, two years in, hired writers and collected a check, but we still have to go in.”

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