An early 1970s sketch from the National Lampoon Radio Hour featuring John Belushi, Harold Ramis, Gilda Radner, Bob Perry, Brian Murray-Doyle and Joe Flaherty. Its a pseudo-documentary about tribes of hillbillies (complete with pre-installed hillbilly accents) at first talking about, then escaping conditions in their respective countries of origin and how they all migrated to the New World... I rate it ★★★★. Wittier than any item ever on SNL, superbly written and subversive as f**k ________________________________________________________ I M M I G R A N T S . . . Who Are They? Where Did They Come From? Why Did They Come? From every direction and continent they came, answering Miss Libertys call. Send me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. She lifts her lamp beside the golden door and from the teeming shores, the wretched refuse came like hungry mosquitoes to the yellow porchlight of freedom! THIS WEEK ON THE IMMIGRANTS: THE HILLBILLIES From every hillside in Europe, discontented hillbillies voice their dissatisfaction with living overseas...
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 04:05:55 +0000
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