Name: There Would Be No "Avenue Q" Without You Guys - Robert Lopez To Trey Parker And Matt Stone
Uploaded: 2026-03-17T16:59:10.000Z
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Give it up for Louis Cato, the Late Show Band, the big beautiful Joy machine.

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Folks, 15 years ago, my first guest debuted their new musical, the Book of Mormon.

They won nine Tony Awards and changed Broadway.

Please welcome to the Late Show, Robert Lopez, Trey Parker and Matt St. Wow, look at that.

We got off a special couch for you and everything.

Well, listen, Trey and Matt, everybody knows you guys are the Emmy and Peabody award winning creators of South Park.

Bobby, you co created the hit musical Avenue Q and also co wrote a song that parents have heard many times.

Let it go with my wife who's in the audience.

And you're also the only two time EGOT winner.

So two Emmys, two Grammys, two Oscars, two Tonys.

You ever just call up Rita Moreno and taunt her?

And together you made 15 years ago a show that, as I said, won nine Tonys and.

But before all that success, what, what was the music you were listening to growing up?

Trey, what were you listening to growing up?

Matt, were you, what were you listening to?

Now, but Matt, did you write music when you were younger?

I was just lucky enough to know these two guys who did okay growing up.

So what kind of music did you guys do growing up?

I actually, yeah, I started writing music actually after I saw Spinal Tap for the first time because I just, I think I was like, I was like 12 or 13 when that came out and I was just like, funny songs.

And I started just that, that became my thing was, I was the funny song guy.

One of my first songs was called you'd suck.

And it was actually I played it at a talent show at school.

And the school called me, they were gonn and they said, you know, you said, you can't say that.

And they said, you know, you're in big trouble.

And my dad, who's basically Randy on South park, you know, my dad goes.

He goes, you're gonna expel my son for being talented?

I had a piano teacher that made me write songs.

And when I was six years old, I wrote a song called Oy Vey what a Day, which makes sense.

Being Filipino and Irish, you guys were a creative team starting in college.

And here we got a picture of you guys all working together.

I don't know why I'm holding up a picture of the three of you together when you're sitting right there, but

Trey and I were doing a movie called Team America.

we were so sure that, like, this was such a great idea, like a puppet movie.

And so our producer told us that, like, hey, there's a puppet show on Broadway.

And we thought, oh, my God, somebody's got our idea.

You know, they're doing the marionette thing.

And so Trey and I went to Avenue Q one night.

And it's not marionettes, it's more of a Sesame street kind of thing.

But we were just as paranoid that someone was gonna steal our idea.

And we were looking at the Playbill, and the Playbill.

And it was actually a special thanks to me and Matt.

Because there would be no Avenue Q without you guys.

I mean, it was definitely written as of us seeing South Park.

It really was like, one of those things where we just.

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There Would Be No "Avenue Q" Without You Guys - Robert Lopez To Trey Parker And Matt Stone

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