Larry
The Cable Guy
The man who added the catch phrases
"Git-R-Done" and "Lord, I Apologize" to the American
lexicon and drew fans by the pickup truckload to his shows proved to
be one of the most successful comics of the early 2000s. Dan Whitney,
known better as Larry the Cable Guy, claims he was born in the back
of an El Camino during a Foghat concert. His drawl may sound Southern,
but Larry was raised on a pig farm in Pawnee City, NE. Fascinated by
this redneck life and always looking to comment on it, Larry used his
humorous observations to captivate his friends, who dared him to try
his hand at standup. He did in 1986 and the fans' reaction to his slow,
approachable style had him hooked.
His one-liner-filled act soon caught word-of-mouth fire in the South
and brought him to the attention of television. Appearances on Evening
at the Improv and Comic Strip Live increased his fan base past rural
America, but it was on the nationally syndicated Bob and Tom Show on
radio that Larry got the most exposure. His success with radio continued
when he became a regular on Jeff Foxworthy's Country Countdown Show
and Larry soon started syndicating his "commentaries" to 14
markets across the country. In 2000 Foxworthy invited the comic to join
his Blue Collar Comedy Tour, along with Bill Engvall. The successful
tour grossed $15 million, sold more than 1 million copies when released
on DVD, and turned Larry into a superstar. His debut CD, Lord, I Apologize,
appeared in 2001 and became the Dark Side of the Moon of the comedy
charts -- sticking in the Top 20 for two years running.
In 2002, a Comedy Central airing of Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie
became the network's highest-rated movie in its 12-year history, even
with the DVD widely available. Larry the Cable Guy: Git-R-Done became
his first solo DVD in 2003, and a year later Larry, Foxworthy, and Engvall
turned their tour into the highly rated television show Blue Collar
TV.
Larry spread holiday cheer at the end of the year with his new CD, A
Very Larry Christmas, and appeared on Blue Collar Comedy Tour Rides
Again. The Right to Bare Arms appeared in March the next year. The year
2006 was devoted mostly to film, with Larry starring in his own feature
film, Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector, and supplying the voice
of Mater in the animated Disney/Pixar film Cars. He also appeared on
the CD and DVD Blue Collar Comedy Tour: One for the Road that year,
before returning to his solo career in early 2007 with the album Morning
Constitutions. By the end of 2007 his second holiday effort, Christmastime
in Larryland, hit the shelves.
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