Could our favorite foul-mouthed fourth graders be coming to Broadway? Well, we’re not exactly sure yet. What we do know is that that Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and Robert Lopez, the composer of Avenue Q, are working on a new musical that will run in August and September at New York Theatre Workshop — the same East Village space that premiered Rent back in 1996.

While we think a staged South Park musical, complete with the Satan worshiping Woodland Critters and a hatred for gingers, is a hilarious idea, we’d also like to see this darkly comedic dream team come up with something new. With a group of guys that have written songs concerning American jingoism, the amount of porn on the Internet, and Helen Keller, we trust that whatever they come up with will be both irreverent and LMAO funny.

Our friends at Boing Boing have an exclusive preview of How’s Your News?, a new MTV show produced by South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker that features reporters with physical and mental disabilities. The documentary news series debuts this Sunday night.

At first we were a little wary of their choice of network, but according to Stone, it was a deliberate decision:

“One of the first things that [director] Arthur Bradford said about doing How’s Your News as a TV show was that he absolutely didn’t want to pitch the show to Lifetime or PBS or anyplace else where you would EXPECT a show like this. He wanted to fly into the center of the sun and have the show on MTV. The How’s Your News crew is about redefining expectations and the show is by far their best work. It is my favorite show on television beside South Park…”

Watch the preview and let us know in the comments what you think. Warning: We got so sucked in that we sat through the entire five-minute clip. If you like what you see, check out a movie from the HYN? gang here that Parker and Stone financed a few years back.

In the current economy, magazines are shutting down, newspapers are going digital and Web sites are turning into TV shows — or at least so it would seem with the just released news that Collegehumor.com will be getting its own behind-the-scenes series on MTV. Also launching are spin-offs of Run’s House and Rob & Big, a news show from Matt Stone and Trey Parker, a Donald Trump reality show that seeks to reform party girls and “a show from Nick Lachey about performing arts students in Cincinnati.” Oy.

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