“Final Week Tonight” host John Oliver and actor Will Ferrell partnered for a parody video on what they believed is a greater illustration of America than Lee Greenwood’s music “God Bless The united statesA.”
Whereas closing his present Sunday evening, Oliver mocked using Greenwood’s music at naturalization ceremonies, calling him “a cheesy Bible salesman with views utterly at odds with the whole lot a naturalization ceremony represents.”
“I’m undecided why it’s being performed at ceremonies in any respect, not simply contractually and even musically however as a result of Greenwood’s previous feedback about immigrants have been, to say the least, off-message,” Oliver mentioned.
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“Final Week Tonight” host John Oliver talked about how Lee Greenwood’s music has been utilized in naturalization ceremonies. (Lee Greenwood)
He continued, “All of that is to say, for a number of causes, I might argue Lee Greenwood’s music ought to by no means once more be performed at citizenship ceremonies, as a result of they deserve one genuinely distinctive to this nation. A music that celebrates the nation new Individuals are about to affix, and the method that they have been by way of, whereas additionally not soft-pedaling some exhausting truths about it.”
The present then aired a video happening at a neighborhood bar with Ferrell starting a brand new music.
“You studied exhausting/You probably did your finest/Stuffed out the kinds, and handed the check/Now you are a part of a land that is so God blessed/And beginning immediately, you are American,” Ferrell started.
He continued, “There’s corn canines and apple pie/Fireworks lighting up the sky/Nascar, rodeo, barbecue/That stuff’s American/Now so are you.”
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Actor Will Ferrell dressed up as cowboy in a parody video for “Final Week Tonight.” (John Phillips/Getty Photographs)
He later transitioned to describing the nation’s “flaws” being “an actual large nation with actual large issues.”Â
“Televangelists and fossil fuels/Metallic detectors in all our faculties/Non-public prisons and Mountain Dew/That stuff’s American/Now that’s your drawback too,” Ferrell sang, whereas additionally including, “Ted f—ing Cruz.”
One other verse included, “These days it’s tougher to be free/Laborious to be the nation we should be/You weren’t born right here, you volunteered/To affix your destiny to the nice and simply plain bizarre.”
Earlier than the music ended, a determine dressed because the “QAnon Shaman” Jacob Chansley with a horned costume and an American flag ran behind Ferrell.
“Holy sh-t simply remembered the coup/That stuff’s American,” Ferrell added.
Oliver attacked utilizing Greenwood’s music as an entire at occasions. ((Picture by FilmMagic/FilmMagic for HBO))
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Greenwood’s music gained extra consideration earlier this 12 months after he carried out it on the Republican Nationwide Conference in July.
