Rich Hall's: Dirty South Part 6

Rich Hall sets his keen eye and acerbic wit on his homeland once again as he sifts truth from fiction in Hollywood's version of the southern states of the USA. Using specially shot interviews and featuring archive footage from classic movies such as Gone With The Wind, A Streetcar Named Desire and Deliverance, Rich discovers a South that is about so much more than just rednecks, racism and hillbillies.

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[thedarknesscallingme]

i bet those southerners who cames to James Dickey's aid probably wished they'd have left him to drown after the terrible way he portrayed them in Deliverance.

overall a brilliant documentary, noone other than Rich Hall could have made it so entertaining.

[fritspas]

And how well has Rich Hall done portraying the typical southerner with his character Otis Lee Crenshaw?

[ciaochowbella]

Here's the thing about the south that a lot of folks don't get.....we don't CARE if the rest of the world thinks we're stupid. In the end, we are as smart as anyone else, as successful as anyone else and as happy as anyone else. If it makes the rest of America happy to laugh at us a bit, well, that's okay. Their punishment is that they don't get to live in the south.

[blokey8]

@thedarknesscallingme The river looks good fun, though :) if I ever end up in Georgia I might grab a kayak and head down there

[blokey8]

@thedarknesscallingme speaking as a canoeist, it's bloody embarrassing.

[stammlager5]

Thanks for uploading these. Rich Hall is one of my favorite comedians. He is sadly overlooked here in the states, but I'm happy to hear that he gets the recognition that he deserves in the UK. As for this documentary, it's nice to see someone combat the ignorant hayseed racist yokel stereotype that Hollywood typically paints us to be.

[thedarknesscallingme]

@WalterLiddy

actually i did, the story of deliverance is about modern man going up against the harsh natural wilderness and getting more than they bargained for. the men of the south are simply a part of the savagery of nature itself, not separate individuals from the land in which they inhabit. i was merely making a comedic point about how james Dickey turned a true event on its head as writers often tend to do

[WalterLiddy]

@thedarknesscallingme I guess you didn't pay any attention to Hall's analysis then.

[Daleksaresupreme1]

the irony is Rich uses the souther stereotype in his stand up

[ThaneSton]

Immediately followed by "God's Little Acre". The British sure do love irony, don't they?

[cdaphne]

fucking brilliant...