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HBO’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” focused on immigration Sunday night, and ended with a hilarious, high-production music video making fun of Lee Greenwood’s corny song “God Bless the USA.”
The rousing new anthem has patriotic pop stylings similar to Greenwood’s well-known ditty—but the lyrics offer an honest twist. The video features a cowboy hat-wearing Will Ferrell walking out of a gas station diner into a rugged American landscape.
"You studied hard. You did your best. Filled out the forms and passed the tests,” Ferrell sings. “Now you're part of a land that's so God blessed, and starting today, you're American.”
He proceeds to touch on some of the good things about America—“and some of the real big problems; we're kind of hoping you could help us solve them.”
Problems like: “student debt and CTE. The war on drugs and Scientology. Boeing airlines and Ted-fucking-Cruz. They're all American! Now, so are you."
