Writing Advice from Matt Stone & Trey Parker @ NYU | MTVU's "Stand In"

[0:04]Just hold right here. Don't move. Please welcome the Emmy Award winning and Tony. I'm nervous, I don't know why. creators of South Park, Matt Stone and Trey Parker. You think I'm kidding, right? I thought I was right.

[0:21]You guys in here?

[0:24]our whole South Park writer's room, one whole wall is is one of these. And we've got it split up into three acts. We have different color markers just like here too, look at it. Yep. We have that. And I walk around with the markers like this and we'll go, okay, we do a show about this. This is our writer's room. Okay, okay, well somewhere, okay, this would be a funny scene if we had this. Each individual scene has to work as a kind of funny sketch. You don't

[1:44]application to that. And there's so many scripts we read from new writers and and and things that we see. I see movies Yeah, yeah, you see movies that you're just watching and it's like this happened and then this happens and then this happens. That's when you're in a movie just going what the am I watching this movie for? just like this happened and then this happened and this happened that's not a movie, you know, that's not a story. Like Trey said, it's those those two butt because therefore that gives you the causation between each beat and that makes that that's a story.