Trey Parker

Trey Parker, born in Colorado in 1969, didn't just make cartoons; he weaponized them. Meeting Matt Stone at the University of Colorado Boulder ignited a partnership built on musical comedy and a shared disdain for propriety. Their first feature, a raucous musical about a cannibal, was a hint of the anarchy to come. In 1997, they unleashed 'South Park,' a show that looked like a child's art project but cut with the precision of a satirical scalpel. Parker, providing voices and co-writing frenzied episodes often in a matter of days, became the engine of a machine that held nothing—religion, politics, celebrity—beyond critique. He then proved his musical genius wasn't limited to cartoon songs by co-creating 'The Book of Mormon,' a Broadway smash that was both hilariously irreverent and strangely heartfelt, cementing his status as a master of subversive entertainment.