South Park is an Emmy Award-winning American animated television comedy series created, written, and voiced in part by Matt Stone and Trey Parker. Distributed by and airing on Comedy Central since 1997, it follows the adventures of 4 grade school boys who live in the small town of South Park, Colorado. The show emulates stop-motion cardboard animation, which was the original form of animation for the show but has since been replaced by computers. South Park satirizes (sometimes surreally) many aspects of American culture and current events, and challenges deep-seated convictions and taboos, usually employing parody and black humor.