Biography

Trey Parker, or Randolph Parker III, was born in Conifer , Colorado in the USA on the 19th of October 1969. He grew up with his dad Randy, mum Sharon and his sister Shelly. Trey based most of the characters on South Park from people he knew/met when he was growing up:

His dad Randy is a Government Geologist like Stan's dad

He has a sister Shelly like Stan

Mr Mackey was his High School Councillor, Mr Lackey and like in South Park they made fun of his voice and he never noticed it

Like Cartman's mum, Trey's mum comforted him with food

Mr Hankey is something Trey's dad made up to make him flush the toilet when he was little, but this Mr Hankey wasn't a nice piece of poo, Trey's dad told him that if he didn't flush the toilet, Mr Hankey would jump out of the toilet and kill him, so of course not knowing any different Trey flushed about 20 times everytime he went

Chef was a fat black guy Trey and Matt saw when they were high on acid, during the making of Cannibal The Musical. He kept saying, "Watch the children, y'all gotta watch the children"

Mr Garrison was a College teacher who was gay, and Mr Hat was a puppet from kindergarten, the teacher used him to avoid teaching by playing a record player and moving the puppet about

Trey attended West Jefferson Junior High and Evergreen High at Evergreen, Colorado, where he first started drawing Mr Hankey

When Trey was growing up he took acting lessons and in the 6th grade he participated in a talent show, in a skit called The Dentist, in which he shoved a drill into a kids neck and had fake blood spurt out everywhere. After the skit was over he had to tell everyone it was ok to go to the dentist. Trey won the talent show.

After school Trey attended Berklee College of Music, to study Music Theory (because he sings and plays the piano), but after one semester he changed his mind and decided to study film at the University of Colorado, where he met Matt Stone. Trey made his first animation film at the uni which was called American History, where he had his japanese room mate say all he knew about american history , then done the animation to it afterwards. The animation wasn't drawn but was made using cardboard cutouts because Trey said he isn't good at drawing and left it to the last minute. American History won a Student Academy Award, silver medal.

Trey got kicked out of uni because he spent to much time on making the film Cannibal The Musical instead of studying. For a story on the making of Cannibal, go to www.cracrapcrap.com (trust me it's worth reading)

After all that, Trey and Matt moved to California where they shared an apartment with Dian Bachar. This was about the time they were approached by, at the time Fox Executive Brian Graden. He paid Trey and Matt to do a video christmas card for him. The animation they done was The Spirit of Christmas - Jesus vs Santa Claus.

In this animation is 4 third graders, which would later be the boys from South Park, but they look all queer and demented, NOT THAT IM SAYING ITS NOT COOL BECAUSE IT IS.....ok..

The animation got passed around and copied and gained quite a few fans quickly, Fox asked them to do a show based on The Spirit of Christmas, but Trey and Matt had ideas that clashed with Fox's, so Fox turned them down, but the people at Comedy Central had seen the animation and loved it so they signed them up.