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South Park Wins Coveted Peabody Award

With Jon Stewart hosting and "South Park" as one of the honorees, the 65th annual Peabody Awards ceremony Monday had a comedic bent.

Stewart called the ceremony at the Waldorf-Astoria "less entertaining than the Emmys," and said the honorees were "good, but not Latin Grammys good." He also quipped that he didn’t want to see the statuettes being handed out ending up on eBay.

The biggest cheers went to Trey Parker and Matt Stone, co-creators of Comedy Central’s "South Park." In introducing them, Stewart said he marveled at "at their ability to keep the show fresh and hilarious" after nearly 10 years on the air. The two, though, kept their remarks brief and irreverent, with Parker throwing a swear word into a joke about their "artistic responsibility" and Stone spending his time praising fellow honorees "Battlestar Galactica."

posted by Fergie @ 6/05/2006 07:30:00 PM