WAKE UP UHMERIKA! * EARL PITTS
—EARL PITTS—
“Clinton’s Viewpoint”
WAKE UP UHMERIKA!
Earl Pitts is a fictional character performed by Gary Burbank, a radio personality from Cincinnati, Ohio in 1968.
Pitts, who is almost always referred to as “Earl Pitts, Uhmerikun” (as in “American”) is a stereotype of a redneck from the Southern United States. As such, Pitts presents a daily “editorial,” which always begins with a bugle call of “Assembly”, and the words, “Ya’ know what makes me sick?” followed by another line like, “You know what makes me so angry, ah just want to soak mah butt in a bucket of toxic waste?” Pitts then goes off on a rant, either about some cultural topic of the day as seen from a redneck point of view, or an anecdote about his home life or his job at the local tavern.
His signature ending lines are “Wake Up, Uhmerika!” and “Ah’m Earl Pitts, Uhmerikun. Pitts off!” while The Washington Post march plays in the background.
Burbank says that Pitts is the second-longest running syndicated comedy program ever behind Paul Harvey News and Comment.
(Side note: Gary Burbank was formerly a jock at CKLW in the 1970s.)
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(Source: Earl Pitts; Wikipedia)
