Swift and South Park

I do in the next Place complain of my own great Want of Judgement, in being prevailed upon by the Intreaties and false Reasonings of you and some others, very much against mine own Opinion, to suffer my Travels to be published. P. 29, Letter from Gulliver to Sympson

I carefully preserved them [the huge wasp stingers] all, and having since shewn them with some other Curiosities in several Parts of Europe; upon my Return to England I gave three of them to Gresham College, and kept the fourth for my self. p. 113

That nothing could now pass which was not extraordinary; wherein I doubted, some Authors less consulted Truth than their own Vanity or Interest, or the Diversion of ignorant Readers. P. 145

I think it's safe to say this is the funnest read of the semester so far - whether it's the meta-commentary Swift/Gulliver keeps giving, the ludicrousness of Gulliver being entangled in a sex scandal in Lilliputia, or the vulgarity of him pissing (I think that's the appropriate term here) out a fire in an imperial palace. I would like to talk about the reader-reaction that Swift is trying to impose throughout the book - he's constantly telling us to check the facts, as well as giving us regularly reminding us of the narrator's veracity. How does Swift present his message differently than South Park, The Daily Show, and The Colbert Report? 

 While South Park may seem like a vulgar step down for a "Great Books" Seminar, I have to imagine this book was considered pretty raunchy for its time. Both were very popular, and both offer biting critiques of the modern life. South Park does not pretend to present solutions for modern problems, but does Swift? He oh so sarcastically decries the Brobdingnag laws for being too naive, while the narrator doesn't come out and say "We should accept the Liliputian laws." Does Swift think that the foreign laws could actually be implemented in Britain, or are "the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth (132)" an incurable lot?