History Creator / JeffFoxworthy

** In the same bit, Larry raises his hand somewhat reluctantly regarding an incident where he wound up wearing a dress, to which Jeff responds "Think about that and try to sleep tonight."

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A self-proclaimed redneck and recognized master of redneck humor, Jeffrey Marshall Foxworthy (born September 6, 1958 in Atlanta, Georgia) is a stand-up comedian and actor who has been ranked as the best-selling comedy recording artist of all time. He is the author of several humor books, many of them compilations of his "You Might Be A Redneck If..." one-liners, the star of the eponymous ''[[Series/TheJeffFoxworthyShow Jeff Foxworthy Show]]'' (which lasted a total of two seasons across two networks), and one-quarter of the stand-up troupe for ''The Series/BlueCollarComedy Tour''. He hosted the quiz show ''Series/AreYouSmarterThanAFifthGrader'' (2007-2009) and in 2012 became the host of ''The American Bible Challenge'' on the Game Show Network.

* FunWithAcronyms: According to one skit, "single" stands for "Stay Intoxicated Nightly, Get Laid Every Day."

** ''You Might Be a Redneck If...'' is his only album where the "you might be a redneck" jokes appear as BookEnds (although it seems that the epilogue was unintended). All subsequent albums have them as the closer except for ''Have Your Loved Ones Spayed or Neutered'', which went for SomethingCompletelyDifferent.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent:
** Producer Scott Rouse sampled Jeff Foxworthy's "redneck" jokes with a musical backing and released it as a single called "Redneck Stomp". After it was a success in both single sales and music video popularity, Rouse took some of Jeff's other material and gave it a musical backing, often adding an appropriately themed chorus sung by a popular country artist. (For instance, "Party All Night" takes a skit on single people partying from his first album and adds a chorus sung by Little Texas, while "Games Rednecks Play" takes snippets from the title album's routine about the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and adds a chorus sung by Music/AlanJackson.) Many of these "songs" were compiled into ''Crank It Up: The Music Album'', which also included a couple regular standup routines and the "Redneck 12 Days of Christmas".
** Instead of the redneck jokes, Jeff ended the ''Have Your Loved Ones Spayed or Neutered'' album with a skit called "I Believe", featuring Larry the Cable Guy (also a trademark of the Blue Collar Comedy routines).

* YouDoNotWantToKnow: One of his routines in ''Games Rednecks Play'' involves him as a teenager trying to sneak home from a late night out. When his mother catches him, she initially {{invert|ed}}s it by saying she ''didn't'' want to know want to know where he was, what he was doing, or who he was doing it with. Jeff then says, "That's good, because [[NoodleIncident the details are kinda fuzzy to me at this point!]" His mother then goes back on it and asks anyway. But, she [[TooMuchInformation quickly regrets it]], though [[AllMenArePerverts his dad wants to know more]] as the last thing he remembers was being in a hot tub with "ten nekkid women".

* YouDoNotWantToKnow:
** One of his routines in ''Games Rednecks Play'' involves him as a teenager trying to sneak home from a late night out. When his mother catches him, she initially {{invert|ed}}s it by saying she ''didn't'' want to know what he was doing, then goes back on it and asks anyway. She [[TooMuchInformation quickly regrets it]], though [[AllMenArePerverts his dad wants to know more]].
** Inverted in another sketch, about coming home to his wife, who angrily declares that she ''does not'' want to know where he was, what he was doing, or who he was doing it with. Jeff then says, "That's good, because [[NoodleIncident the details are kinda fuzzy to me at this point!]]"

* AlohaHawaii: A skit on ''Games Rednecks Play'' is about his family vacationing in Hawaii. As one might expect of a family of self-described rednecks, they were totally out of their element for the entire trip. His musical album adapted it into a song called "Howdy from Maui" featuring Music/TheBeachBoys and Los Straitjackets.

A recognized master of redneck humor, Jeffrey Marshall Foxworthy (born September 6, 1958 in Atlanta, Georgia) is a stand-up comedian and actor who has been ranked as the best-selling comedy recording artist of all time. He is the author of several humor books, many of them compilations of his "You Might Be A Redneck If..." one-liners, the star of the eponymous ''[[Series/TheJeffFoxworthyShow Jeff Foxworthy Show]]'' (which lasted a total of two seasons across two networks), and one-quarter of the stand-up troupe for ''The Series/BlueCollarComedy Tour''. He hosted the quiz show ''Series/AreYouSmarterThanAFifthGrader'' (2007-2009) and in 2012 became the host of ''The American Bible Challenge'' on the Game Show Network.

* NotSoDifferent: The premise of one sketch was how gay people and married people aren't so different after all: if you're sleeping on a bed with eight pillows and a dust ruffle, if you've ever been antique shopping during a big football game, if you can't remember the last time you had sex with a ''woman''... you're either gay or married!

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: As Jeff himself once said, he doesn't have to come up with a lot of material; he just needs to write it down when it happens.
** In his early days, Jeff told a story of a friend who saw his dog running around the yard with his neighbor's pet rabbit in the dog's mouth, with the rabbit clearly dead. The friend took the rabbit away, washed it off, and snuck it back to his neighbor's house under cover of darkness. In a conversation with the neighbor a few days later, she complained how weird it was that after their pet rabbit had died, somebody dug him up and put him back in his cage.
** Jeff told a story of his daughter making him a "sandwich" of two Ritz crackers. After he'd already eaten it, Jeff's daughter said she made it by chewing up peanuts and raisins, then spitting them onto the crackers. Cue Jeff almost throwing up.

* {{Bowdlerize}}: Some issues of his Laughing Hyena albums snip out the more profane parts... ''very'' awkwardly and poorly.

** Subverted earlier on the same album, when he makes reference to his hypochondriac wife, who he says always has whatever newfound disease they discuss on the news: "You do ''not'' have testicular cancer. You don't even have testiculars!"

* WeCantHaveNiceThings: In a routine on ''Games Rednecks Play'', Jeff talks about how he and his brother once wrestled each other in the living room and broke his dad's Jack Daniel's Elvis decanter. His mom's reaction: "We just can't have nice things!".

-->'''Jeff''': If you've ever used a bar stool as a walker...\\

---> '''Larry:''' This is one of Disney World's least favorite characters: Fruity.

* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Discussed. Jeff says that if you ever broke into his house, he'd shoot you. Jeff's wife would shoot you, and then spend thirty minutes telling you why she shot you.

-->"We've all made mistakes. You forget to rewind the video before you take it back to Blockbuster, that's a mistake. But if you can be married to someone for 22 years and not know what gender they are, you have skedaddled past 'mistake.' You have slammed headlong into 'faux pas.'"

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: "If you think ''Theatre/TheNutcracker'' is [[GroinAttack something you did off the high dive]]" is present in "Redneck 12 Days of Christmas".

* WeCantHaveNiceThings: In a routine on ''Games Rednecks Play'', Jeff talks about how he and his brother once wrestled each other in the living room and broke his dad's Jack Daniel Elvis set. His mom's reaction: "We just can't have nice things!".

* ToiletHumor: He had a bit that mentioned how, when he turned 50, he had to have his first colonoscopy, and how the prep for the procedure is to take a sizable amount of laxatives in order to clean out your system for the camera. Since he was goofing off during the consultation, he didn't hear the doctor say you're supposed to take them over a period of four hours, and instead took them in less than ten minutes. He said his gut started to sound like the house in ''The Amityville Horror.''

* ARareSentence: In a skit where he was told of a guy who had his nipple bitten off by a beaver,Jeff mentions that it would probably be the only time that you could have the words "nipple" and "beaver" in a newspaper without anyone getting offended.

* OneHitWonder:[[invoked]]He had a top 20 country hit with "Redneck 12 Days of Christmas", and the song re-entered the country top 40 ''four times'' after that before ''Billboard'' altered the rules so that Christmas songs could only chart once. The song's #18 peak on Hot Country Songs set a record for the highest charting Christmas song, later tied in 2005 by Jimmy Wayne's "Paper Angels".

* AllMenArePerverts: One of Jeff's bits from ''Totally Committed'' deals with the differences between Men and Women, more specifically about women, since they're complicated, they think men are too and always wonder what 'he's really thinking.'
-->Ladies I will tell you what we are really thinking. We're thinking, "I want a beer and I want ta see some'in nekkid."

--> In my life, I have driven some crappy vehicles. But I have never been so desperate for a vehicle that I wanted a used rental car. Buying a used rental car is kind of like going to a house of ill repute looking for a wife. Anything that's been driven that hard by that many people, you really don't want to put your key in it. My grandma's the most careful, safe driver in the world. You put her in a rental car, and she's doing doughnuts in the K-Mart parking lot!

* AsianStoreOwner: In a very early skit, he ponders if the Middle East has Americans working in their 7-Elevens.

* BlackIsBiggerInBed: ''[[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness Way]]'' [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness back in the day,]] his material was much filthier. One joke was about guys hanging a washcloth on "nature's coat hook" and asking their wives if they knew where said towel went... whereas black guys would ask about ''the bedspread''.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: After he became famous, a small label called Laughing Hyena issued some of his late-80s standup on cheap compilations. Foxworthy was a lot more profane and bigoted in his early years, and had somewhat less of an emphasis on his now-trademark Southern humor. ''Very'' early albums didn't even have the "you might be a redneck" jokes — instead, his signature sketch was a story that worked in every letter of the alphabet: "A there, dudes! I'm gonna tell you a story you might not B-lieve. 'Cause you C, it's about this friend of mine, he's from D-troit…"
** To show how less profane he got: the Laughing Hyena albums that don't snip out the profanity leave in "fuck" and "shit" repeatedly. He used "shit" [[PrecisionFStrike twice]] on ''You Might Be a Redneck If…'' and once on ''Games Rednecks Play'', and has been pretty much PG rated ever since.

* EightiesHair: One of the more famous mullets this side of Billy Ray Cyrus.

* HalfWittedHillbilly: Foxworthy's perennial "You Might Be A Redneck" jokes are largely riffing on this trope.

** Not exactly a prank, but he had a bit that mentioned how, when he turned 50, he had to have his first colonoscopy, and how the prep for the procedure is to take a sizable amount of laxatives in order to clean out your system for the camera. Since he was goofing off during the consultation, he didn't hear the doctor say you're supposed to take them over a period of four hours, and instead took them in less than ten minutes. He said his gut started to sound like the house in ''The Amityville Horror.''

-->"Wasn't mooning a great sport? Nobody ever got hurt, you didn't have to be in shape to play... Hell, the fatter you were, the more you brought to the window!"

* OneHitWonder:[[invoked]]He had a top 20 country hit with "Redneck 12 Days of Christmas", and the song re-entered the country top 40 ''four times'' after that. He also charted several other "songs" that interspersed his comedy sketches with a chorus sung by a popular country music artist, or were just him narrating. "Redneck 12 Days of Christmas" also held a chart record for the highest peak achieved by a Christmas song on the Hot Country Songs charts, later tied by Jimmy Wayne's "Paper Angels".

-->"Free home-delivered catalogs of women in their underwear? God bless America! Well, think about it. We never got anything like that when we were growing up and ''needed'' it! Hell, all we ever got was the Sears catalog. Had those old high waisted granny panties, and those bras you could measure first downs with."

** Producer Scott Rouse sampled Jeff Foxworthy's "redneck" jokes with a musical backing and released it as a single called "Redneck Stomp". After it was a success in both single sales and music video popularity, Rouse took some of Jeff's other material and gave it a musical backing, often adding an appropriately themed chorus sung by a popular country artist. (For instance, "Party All Night" takes a skit on single people partying from his first album and dubs in a chorus sung by Little Texas, while "Games Rednecks Play" takes snippets from the title album's routine about the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and adds a chorus sung by Music/AlanJackson.) Many of these "songs" were compiled into ''Crank It Up: The Music Album'', which also included a couple regular standup routines and the "Redneck 12 Days of Christmas". Rouse also sampled Creator/BillEngvall's work in similar fashion in later years.

--> '''Doctor:''' A'right, now what we gon' do is saw the top o' yo head off, root around in 'ere with a stick and see if we can't find that dad-burned clot.\\

* ThrowItIn: The reason behind ''You Might Be a Redneck If...'' featuring the "You might be a redneck" one-liners as BookEnds. The closing track opens with an audience member shouting "Redneck!" and Jeff clearly struggles for a few seconds before offering one. This may also be why later albums feature the "redneck" one-liners at the end.

* AntiChristmasSong: "The Redneck 12 Days of Christmas". It's the traditional Christmas carol, just with redneck gives in mind (pro wrestling ticket, Copenhagen, flannel shirts, etc).

A recognized master of redneck humor, Jeffrey Marshall Foxworthy (born September 6, 1958) is a stand-up comedian and actor who has been ranked as the best-selling comedy recording artist of all time. He is the author of several humor books, many of them compilations of his "You Might Be A Redneck If..." one-liners, the star of the eponymous ''[[Series/TheJeffFoxworthyShow Jeff Foxworthy Show]]'' (which lasted a total of two seasons across two networks), and one-quarter of the stand-up troupe for ''The Series/BlueCollarComedy Tour''. He hosted the quiz show ''Series/AreYouSmarterThanAFifthGrader'' (2007-2009) and in 2012 became the host of ''The American Bible Challenge'' on the Game Show Network.