'South Park' Thinks a Middle-Aged Man Can Pass for Lorde
The show had a male adult portray the "Royals" singer last night
South Park
has never hesitated to take the piss out of celebrities who deserve to get a firm knuckle-rapping, but has Lorde
ever really done anything all that worthy of drawing the cartoon creators' ire?
Apparently, Trey Parker and Matt Stone seem to think so, which is why in last night's "Gluten Free Ebola" episode of the long-running comedy, the middle-aged Randy Marsh character — who it should be noted, to put this in the utmost context, is an
adult man
— was revealed to be moonlighting as the "Royals" singer in his spare time.
The thing is, for a joke on a show like South Park
to totally land, it has to be something the audience can get behind, like the justified takedown of someone's ego, as the show famously did to Kanye West. Lorde is 17, though, and by all accounts — acceptance speeches and otherwise — seems to be pretty humble, so, cool joke guys? Watch the entire episode below, and fast forward to the 21:00 minute mark to see the
"Yellow Flicker Beat"
singer's "cameo."