Jeff Foxworthy Comedy
Friday, July 25th, 2008
Like many a game show host these days, Jeff Foxworthy got his start in the entertainment business as a comedian. He’d previously been a maintenance worker at IBM computer before entering and winning a comedy club contest at the behest of his co-workers. In other words, even before he was a professional comedian, Foxworthy was still a comedian.
His standup act is based very much around the society into which he was born. Most of Foxworthy’s jokes center on redneck culture as he perceives it, and he spares no jabs when discussing the quirks of the rednecks he’s known (probably to a point past credulity, really).
And, like most comedians, much of Foxworthy’s material centers on his family. He loves to poke fun at his family’s foibles and makes light of their shortcomings often enough. Yet all the while there’s an underlying tone of affection in his voice that lets you know he still loves his family despite their shortcomings.
To cap off his comedy sketches Foxworthy often ends his acts with a series of “You might be a Redneck” jokes. In them he gives a set of circumstances that might indicate whether or not you are a redneck. Example:
“If you’ve been married three times and still have the same in-laws, you might be a redneck.”
or:
“If you think safe sex is a padded headboard, you might be a redneck.”
Things like that. Entire comedy albums of his have been made off these redneck jokes.