yokel
Noun
Meaning
A country bumpkin.
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A cast member would play some yokel who would have some kind of bad talent, which would almost always end up with the audience booing it; throwing vegetables and the hook operator yanking said act forcibly off the stage.
He chastised the "degraded nonsense which country preachers are ramming and hammering into yokel skulls".
One commercial in this series had Enfield as a yokel refusing a Dime bar—smooth on the outside, crunchy on the inside—because he preferred armadillos —smooth on the inside, crunchy on the outside.
Jealous plebs moaning about your two Jags and grace and favour houses, or some yokel with a bad mullet delivering a well-aimed egg to your chops?
Today, unless the two leading candidates can surmount them - and the evangelical Christian wing of the party that advances them - they may be dead meat for the grinning Mr. Huckabee, the yokel who's no jokel.
"Yokum" was a combination of yokel and hokum, although Capp established a deeper meaning for the name during a series of visits around 1965–1970 with comics historians George E. Turner and Michael H. Price.