HBO’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” targeted on immigration Sunday evening, and ended with a hilarious, high-production music video making enjoyable of Lee Greenwood’s corny track “God Bless the USA.”
The rousing new anthem has patriotic pop stylings just like Greenwood’s well-known ditty—however the lyrics supply an sincere twist. The video encompasses a cowboy hat-wearing Will Ferrell strolling out of a gasoline station diner right into a rugged American panorama.
“You studied arduous. You probably did your finest. Stuffed out the kinds and handed the checks,” Ferrell sings. “Now you’re part of a land that’s so God blessed, and starting today, you’re American.”
He proceeds to the touch on a few of the good issues about America—“and some of the real big problems; we’re kind of hoping you could help us solve them.”
Issues like: “scholar debt and CTE. The conflict on medication and Scientology. Boeing airways and Ted-fucking-Cruz. They’re all American! Now, so are you.”
The England-born Oliver recalled his personal expertise changing into an American citizen, which included a ultimate ceremony the place Greenwood’s uber-patriotic anthem was performed. He did some digging and discovered that the track has been performed at citizenship ceremonies for no less than a decade now, and Greenwood receives $700 a 12 months from the federal government in trade.
The comic then argued that Greenwood’s Trump help, weird Bible gross sales, and makes an attempt to trademark the phrase “God Bless the USA” have grow to be too problematic to proceed this custom. Oliver proposed “a song that celebrates the nation new Americans are about to join, and the process that they’ve been through, while also not soft-pedaling some hard truths about it.”
Enlisting beloved comedic actor Ferrell to deliver it to life, Oliver provided to pay the U.S. authorities $701 to make use of their new track as an alternative of Greenwood’s.
