South Park guys' Trump deepfake spoof Sassy Justice with Fred Sassy was originally envisioned as a movie before the pandemic

The New York Times

Before the pandemic, Trey Parker, Matt Stone and collaborator Peter Serafinowicz had begun work on the independently financed project, hiring about 20 deepfake artists and technicians with hopes of finishing it before the election. But the coronavirus crisis shut down production after preliminary filming. So they opted to turn Sassy Justice into a TV show, which was uploaded to YouTube earlier this week. “Everybody’s like, the Covid thing might delay us a week,” Stone recalled. “And we’re like, how are we going to survive that? We were already up against it.” Parker and Stone began work on the project to become familiar with the world of deepfake videos. “There is something anxiety-producing about it,” Stone said. “You could call it a moral question — we call it a comedy question. Just ripping something off and trying to fool somebody for more than a second, we have no interest in that.”