Jeff Foxworthy is the largest selling comedy-recording artist in history. Widely known for his redneck jokes, his act goes well beyond that to explore the humor in everyday family interactions and human nature.
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Jeff Foxworthy is one of the most respected and successful comedians in the country. He is the largest selling comedy-recording artist in history, a multiple Grammy Award® nominee, and best-selling author of more than 26 books. In 2014, he was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. Widely known for his redneck jokes, his act goes well beyond that to explore the humor in everyday family interactions and human nature, a style that has been compared to Mark Twain’s.
Jeff’s comedy specials The Good Old Days, his first solo special in 24 years, and We’ve Been Thinking, with Larry the Cable Guy, are streaming on Netflix. Jeff hosted the live auction show What’s It Worth? for A&E in 2020. He was one of the judges on the NBC comedy competition show Bring The Funny, which premiered in 2019 and was one of summer’s hit shows. He has his own comedy channel Jeff and Larry’s Comedy Roundup on SIRIUSXM, which showcases the best in great American comedy. He created multiple family games including Relative Insanity, Relative Insanity 2nd Generation, and See What I Mean.
Jeff hosted the FOX television game show Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader for several seasons. He hosted three seasons of The American Bible Challenge for GSN, had an animated series Bounty Hunters on CMT, hosted the reality series The American Baking Competition for CBS Television Network, and narrated the Lifetime reality show The Week the Women Left. Jeff also executive produced and starred in Foxworthy’s Big Night Out and the television series Blue Collar TV, which he created for the WB network. In addition, he continues his live performances across the country.
Blue Collar TV came about due to the success of Blue Collar Comedy Tour, The Movie and the concert tour of the same name. The movie premiered on Comedy Central and was the highest rated movie in the channel’s history. To date the movie has sold more than four million units. The soundtrack for this movie has been RIAA certified gold (more than 500,000 units).
Blue Collar Comedy Tour Rides Again, the sequel to the first film has sold more than three million units since its release on December 7, 2004. It premiered on Comedy Central February 13, 2005, and was the third most watched telecast ever leading the channel to its most watched day, weekend, and week in network history.
In March of 2006, the Blue Collar boys reunited to shoot Blue Collar Comedy Tour-One For The Road in Washington, D.C., at the Warner Theater. The movie had its world premiere on Comedy Central on June 4, 2006, and was one of the highest rated shows on Comedy Central for 2006. The soundtrack was released on June 6, 2006, and was nominated for a 2006 Grammy Award®. He also filmed a comedy special for CMT in 2012 with Bill Engvall and Larry the Cable Guy titled Them Idiots Whirled Tour .
Jeff’s book The Redneck Dictionary was released on October 18, 2005. The book is based on the popular words of the south Jeff recounts in his stand up act. Due to their popularity, the redneck words became a regular sketch on Blue Collar TV. The book went as high as number two on The New York Times Bestseller List. The Redneck Dictionary II was released October 24, 2006, and was also a New York Times Bestseller. The Redneck Dictionary III was released in October of 2007. Jeff also released the New York Times Bestseller, How to Really Stink at Golf, which shares his invaluable tips for a lifetime of horrible drives and putts. The follow up to that book How to Really Stink at Work was released in May of 2009.
Jeff also wrote a children’s book, Dirt On My Shirt, which has become a New York Times Bestseller. The book is collection of poems inspired by Jeff’s family and friends. The poems are funny, witty, filled with sly humor, and always affectionate, capturing the very essence of being a kid. His second children’s book Silly Street was released on February 24, 2009. Jeff’s third children’s book Hide!!! was a New York Times Bestseller and won a 2011 Mom’s Choice Award for illustrated children’s books. He once again teamed with illustrator Steve Bjorkman to tell the story of a neighborhood game of hide and seek and invites the read to join in the search.
Jeff has voiced numerous characters in different animated films, including Handy Smurf in The Smurfs and Smurfs 2. He was the voice of Reggie the Rooster in the Warner Bros. film Racing Stripes, Lyle in the Disney movie Fox and The Hound II, Lindberg in the Aviators, and Charlie Horse in Hatched.
July 6, 2004, marked the release of Jeff’s final solo comedy CD titled Have Your Loved Ones Spayed or Neutered. The CD contains all new material. It debuted at number one on the Billboard Comedy Charts and was Jeff’s second highest-selling album debut.
In April 1999, The Foxworthy Countdown, a weekly syndicated four-hour radio show, debuted featuring Jeff bringing fans the current Top 30 country hits as well as interviews with stars. The show ran for 10 years and was carried in over 220 markets across the United States. Jeff received a CMA nomination in 2001 for Broadcast Personality of the Year.
Jeff also has an HBO special and two Showtime specials to his credit. With critical acclaim and rave reviews from the first special, Jeff landed his second Showtime special, which earned a Cable ACE Award nomination. Jeff has also been bestowed with a People’s Choice Award as “Favorite Male Newcomer” for The Jeff Foxworthy Show.
Jeff started his own outdoor company, Foxworthy Outdoors, which has a line products related to outdoor living. He has a line of You Might Be A Redneck If… calendars through Andrews McMeel Publishing, which has sold millions of copies.
“Foxworthy is especially virtuosic in his physical comedy, his flights of fancy and lightning shifts of tone and mood, he blends all these elements effortlessly. He may define being redneck as possessing ‘a glorious lack of sophistication,’ but the truth is that Foxworthy, for all his regular-guy image, is a decidedly sophisticated artist.”
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