Jeff Foxworthy

He has never been political. Ever.

He smartly played the cards he was dealt. He was never really a redneck, but had the voice and looks and familiarity with that population to go that direction to huge success. He always seems cool in interviews and it seems like he's widely liked in the industry.

R2 Agreed! He is also funny without making rednecks seem discriminated against.

He’s no Lewis Grizzard.

r3 honestly, this is what sets a good comedian apart from a comedian out for cheap laughs. A good one can get the topic of conversation to laugh along with the joke, or poke a few holes at a topic without making it their entire routine.

Also, cursing, is way overrated. When used correctly, it can cement a punchline, when used liberally, it weighs down the act.

He's absolutely fine, but he's so safe and uninteresting.

Complete trash

If you want everyone on DL to crawl into a hole and die

R7 how is he trashy? I think he is a classy guy- kind, smart, stays out of the tabloids, never marginalizes a group he is poking fun at, and best of all he never uses his "celebrity" as a platform to share his political opinions (I remember it was leaked he voted for, and supports Romney).

R6 I think he is funny. It makes me think of my hometown and some of my family.

If you think Jeff Foxworthy is funny look for something like "100 jokes to read in the bathroom" from a Christian bookstore. You'll break a rib.

[quote] Let's discuss the American comedian Jeff Foxworthy.

Let's not, OP.

If you have to be the "Let's discuss" troll and post dull Wikipedia entries about tepid people to start a thread, at least don't suggest unfunny assholes like this guy.

This is funny

He should play Mike Lindell in Oliver Stone's Trump movie

I'm from Atlanta and Jeff has been a big deal there forever, but as the say timing is everything. I don't think he'd be as successful starting out today now that rednecks are political and closely associated with MAGA. Rednecks were funnier when they were too dumb to vote

[quote]He has written eleven books, two cookbooks, invited a few board games

What did he invite them to?

R16 A rally of some sort

R16 invent, sorry.

He looks hot in R13's thumbnail.

He’s a born again Christian although not of the more obnoxious type and a mainstream Republican who liked Bush and Romney. He’s also over 60 at this point. Make of all that what you will. Probably wants Youngkin in but not Trump.

R20 He didn't like Trump

R21 So he said he voted for Hills or Joe then?

R22 No. He will never share his real views, which is why I like him.

He's no Red Skeleton...I'd like to see Foxworthy do Freddie the Freeloader.

Jeff Foxworthy gives what you describe as universal humor. With the rise of edgy comedians in the 70s, mostly black, more attention has been given to these type of comedians. Not that the Eddie Murphy’s, Richard, Andrew Dice Clays aren’t brilliant but it non family oriented comedians get all the shine from the press. Bill Cosby was also wildly successful doing clean comedy. Foxworthy is the blue collar down south version.

R23 Sounds like he says he is anti-Trump for his entertainment/audience connections but secretly votes for him in the booth.

I always thought he was hot.

He’s no Larry The Cable Guy

One Christmas, my nephew got his grandfather (my old dad) a daily calendar as a gift -- the "you might be a redneck" calendar. We read a couple of them out loud, and I have to admit, the jokes were funny. Then my nephew said, "Yeah, I thought grandpa would like this because we are a family of rednecks."

I think both me and my dad were offended by that comment ... when I was growing up, "redneck" meant the same thing as "poor white trash."

He talked shit about Hillary Clinton in one of his Redneck Comedy Tour shows. Thrre's no way in hell he voted for her, R22. I stopped watching him after that.

Very unfunny, predictable stuff. Owning Redneck-dom (despite being middle class) was his schtick to tell a lot of old jokes.

Great comics tell truths--not necessarily big ones--but they cut through the predictable: Richard Pryor, Robin William (early days), Chris Rock, Mort Sahl, George Carlin, Lenny Bruce before he was crazy. Some people tell truths but just get angry as what happened with Dick Gregory. Foxworthy, though, is just a dick.

R29 white people reclaimed that word in the early aughts. And then rising incomes and moving up social ladder many rednecks were clearly upper middle class. I love it. I just wish so many of them didn’t vote Trump.

R31 Some truths mean two things can be true at the same time. One can be middle class and a redneck. The reason why I speak on that because my dad did wrong growing up. He laid a foundation for us. We were judged by the educated holier than thou black crowd. Not all but many. We were ‘hood rich’, but not rich if you know what that phrase means.. Also growing up in DC there were many of black peers whos parents propelled up the socioeconomic latter through the federal government. Many became upper middle with high paying salaries. The point of the story is never judge a book by its cover. This is America. And I know it’s different for white people who usually follow a more strait laced past.

And Non-white people too

R30 or maybe he ranked on her because she is easy fodder for a comedian. I voted for her of course but the first woman with a viable chance of being president husband cheated on her while president in the White House and she didn’t leave him. And talked shit about her.

R33: Black people stopped sucking up to you and Jeff Foxworthy somehow tells your truth? He's a comfortable guy recycling old jokes and you're a pathetic troll in your PJs ranting at the computer in your basement.

He looks like the genius they call Martin Mull.

In 1990, as a then-unknown young comedian, he was pranked on Candid Camera.

You also have to realize the majority of his fans are Trump supporters.

Nice body in R38.

You just know he has a big dick.

We do?

OP, have you no shame?? I'm embarrassed - for you.

He's no Shelly Berman...

Hot?

For people who think mayonnaise is spicy, maybe.

I like a range of comics. The neurotic Jewish guy/gal, the tell it like it is black guy/gal;, the southern country guy or gal. All can be brilliant.

who the hell starts a thread on jeff foxworthy in 2023?

does he have long covid?

[quote] I think he is a classy guy- kind, smart, stays out of the tabloids, never marginalizes a group he is poking fun at, and best of all he never uses his "celebrity" as a platform to share his political opinions (I remember it was leaked he voted for, and supports Romney).

How is he classy if he supports Romney?

[quote] [R22] No. He will never share his real views, which is why I like him.

Guess what his "real views" are. He voted for Trump, I'm betting.

[quote] who the hell starts a thread on jeff foxworthy in 2023?

The sad "Let's discuss" troll.

R36 sad the lies people make up to justify their existence. I’m black btw.

I don't think he's as hick as his audience is. He knows how to play to them.

R52 his dad was an executive at IBM

R51 Hi Candace Owens!

[quote]If you have to be the "Let's discuss" troll and post dull Wikipedia entries about tepid people to start a thread

She's been doing it for yeaaars. It's exhausting.

And she writes with all the inventiveness and energy of someone's dire tenth-grade book report.

r30, I don't think that's true. He did however make a crack about Obama and seemed to be pro-Trump. He also was very public about his endorsement of Romney. I don't know where the "he's never political" stuff comes from.

[quote]Foxworthy publicly endorsed and campaigned for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in 2012, we found no evidence that he has endorsed 2016 GOP nominee Donald Trump, nor that he said he was "terrified for our nation" if Hillary Clinton should become President.

[quote]About the only bit of truth to this piece was that back in September 2015, in response to a question about whether Trump's style of campaigning was "tapping into American patriotism," Foxworthy made reference to President Obama's mythical "apology tour, saying: "Absolutely, [Trump] is tapping into the American spirit. I think people are fed up with having a commander in chief that does the apology tour around the world.”

[quote]Red Skeleton

Oh, dear.

He said he doesn't like to get political.

His saying Trump is tapping into the "spirit of America" could mean a lot of things. I, not a Trump supporter, think he did tap into the "spirit of America" too.

Of course Foxworthy is a Republican, it is just how much of a Trumper he is. My guess he voted for him but doesn't like him.

WHY ARE WE DISCUSSING THIS HIDEOUS HAS-BEEN????

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST PICK ANYBODY ELSE ON EARTH!!!!!

If you smeared your feces on the walls of the US Capitol, you might be a redneck!

I remembered this clip from "Family Guy." At the time -- which was when I was coming out and saw hidden gay meaning in everything -- I thought the joke was that he was gay and it was an open secret. Since then, I always had it in the back of my mind that he's gay (and because he doesn't come up often, I never questioned it). Any rumors? I figured someone would have mentioned it by now if it were common knowledge, but I figured I'd throw it out there.

[quote]His saying Trump is tapping into the "spirit of America" could mean a lot of things.

He was asked if Trump was tapping into patriotism and he said "Absolutely," then he added that Trump was tapping "into the spirit of America," and then complained about Obama going on a "worldwide apology tour" which NEVER HAPPENED and was rightwing propaganda to begin with.

I think it's pretty clear. I don't know why you're so fucking confused.

That’s disappointing about his pro trump statement. on a practical level, and I’m not making a joke about this, there’s a lot of people, especially entertainers that know that if their audience that their finances depend on is 90% armed in a live show and on the street, they tend to conform. I find it sad personally. That’s the main reason why i don’t go places around that demographic, as a bystander.

He seems like a creative comedian that focuses on a particular subculture. personally, I found his work funny. I think it’s quite sensitive. And it’s interesting to see the observations that he makes. I would say that he understands a subculture similar to the way that a few other successful comedians from the past have done. I think also, what happens is that Foxworthy has such a strong accent that Foxworthy actually uses it to his advantage and that’s what I have found interesting.

So, r62…do you reckon Jeff’s a top or a bottom.

He’s Kenneth, with a mustache.

Ooh, R65, that is a fun game!

If you've sat on more laps than it takes to win the Indy 500... you might be a bottom. If you refer to your backside as your "man cave"... you might be a bottom. If you think the "Lost Cause" was when the water was still not clear by the time he rang your buzzer... you might be a bottom.

R57, unless I hallucinated while I was watching his show, yes, it's true.

^ R30, not R50, sorry I'm a big dumbass, but I still watching him talk shit about Clinton.

Is he cut or uncut?

Wow so I had to google some of his recent stuff. I used to like mid aughts stuff I would catch on Comedy Central. But boy this is rough. This show seems absolutely corny. Good God.

Meant to post the trailer. He might want to consider retirement. And I was singing his praise as a clean comedian back in the day.

I liked Ron White's comedy.

Everyone is a bit gay

White-trash, unfunny, right-wing redneck

He was quite hot in his youth

Alas too young to have known, much less worked with, Eric Porter.

Dayum, R76

R78 Ikr, He was absolutely BAE in youth. You know what they say about how rednecks age though.

He still has that ridiculous mustache? Nuts.

R78 I know—he was a babe. I was kind of surprised.

Foxworthy -- perhaps. But is he SPONGE-worthy?