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33-735: The Blue Collar Comedy Tour was an American comedy troupe, featuring Jeff Foxworthy with three of his comedian friends, Bill Engvall , Ron White , and Larry the Cable Guy , who had replaced fellow comedian Craig Hawksley, who performed in the first 26 shows on the tour. The troupe toured together for six years beginning in January 2000 in Omaha , before finishing in 2006 at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D.C. The troupe also created

66-636: A cookbook entitled The Redneck Grill , co-authored with Newnan, Georgia , artist R. David Boyd, and " Redneck Extreme Mobile Home Makeover " (2005), a book with some of his redneck jokes. In February 2008, Foxworthy released his first children's book Dirt On My Shirt . This was followed by Silly Street in 2009 and Hide!!! in 2010, both of which were illustrated by Steve Bjorkman. In May 2008, Foxworthy released How to Really Stink at Golf , with co-author Brian Hartt and illustrations by Layron DeJarnette . In May 2009, he released How to Really Stink at Work, A Guide to Making Yourself Fire-Proof While Having

99-537: A 1996 Grammy nomination for Best Spoken Comedy Album . Totally Committed was released in May 1998. In conjunction with the album was a one-hour HBO stand-up special by the same name. The album reached "gold" status and received a 1999 Grammy Award nomination. The video for the Totally Committed song featured frequent references to then- Atlanta Braves pitcher , Greg Maddux as well as an appearance at

132-536: A duplicate music channel after the merger. Updated as of 1 November 2024 (Lineups on this list may differed for the Canadian markets) XL – Channels that aired uncut/uncensored, which contained explicit profane language or mature programming that may be offensive to some listeners. Listeners can opt to subscribe Family Friendly plans via their Listener Care hotline. In addition to the below-listed sports channels, Sports Play-by-Play are additionally available on

165-692: A game similar to Cards Against Humanity with a family theme. Family Game Shelf praised the game, saying "it will have you laughing until your sides hurt". Foxworthy met his wife Pamela Gregg at the Punchline in Atlanta , Georgia, and they married on September 18, 1985. They have two daughters, Jordan and Julianne. He is a noted hunting enthusiast, beginning when he was a teen hunting on his father's farm property in Central Georgia. Foxworthy claims to keep his jokes apolitical and has criticized

198-511: A guest “Shark” for two episodes of ABC 's second season of Shark Tank . Since August 2012, Foxworthy has been the host and a producer of the GSN biblical-themed game show The American Bible Challenge , which has aired two seasons. He is also the host of the food reality competition series The American Baking Competition , which aired its first season in summer 2013. Foxworthy has appeared as host and featured guest on several programs on

231-630: A similar channel lineup, with a few differences based on whether the individual has a Sirius, XM, or SiriusXM radio. For technical reasons, separate radios continue to be manufactured for the separate services despite the programming lineups having since been merged. The Lynx and Edge radios are on the SiriusXM platform, the Onyx and XM3pi radios are on the XM platform, and the Sportster and Starmate radios are on

264-695: Is a member of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour , with Larry the Cable Guy , Bill Engvall , and formerly Ron White . Known for his "You might be a redneck " one-liners, Foxworthy has released six major-label comedy albums. His first two albums were each certified triple Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America . He has written several books based on his redneck jokes, as well as an autobiography entitled No Shirt, No Shoes... No Problem! Foxworthy has also made several ventures into television, starting in

297-460: The NBC version of The Jeff Foxworthy Show , White was brought on as his comedy is based around personal experiences retold in his smoking, drinking Southern United States persona, as well as being a former opener for Foxworthy. According to White, when he was presented with the original tour concept, he admitted that he thought the idea "was retarded." Originally, Craig Hawksley was the fourth member of

330-517: The Outdoor Channel and Versus . In February 2019, Foxworthy was announced as a judge for NBC's comedy competition series Bring the Funny . In 2020, a new episode of Ellen's Game of Games featured Jeff Foxworthy on a game of Stink Tank. In the early 2000s, Foxworthy had a career resurgence as a result of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour , in which he and three other comedians ( Larry

363-648: The memes circulating on social media that appear to show him making jokes at the expense of liberals in his stand-up. Despite this, he donated to the presidential campaign of George W. Bush , as well as the Republican National Committee in the 2000s. In 2012, Foxworthy endorsed Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney , and later stated that Donald Trump is "tapping into the American spirit". List of Sirius XM Radio channels#Comedy Since 2008, Sirius XM Radio has had

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396-607: The 2009 year-end countdown, aired the weekend of December 27, 2009. In 2006, Sirius Satellite Radio launched the Blue Collar Comedy channel, which featured stand-up comedy centered around the Blue Collar group. In 2015, now under the SiriusXM banner, the station rebranded as Jeff & Larry's Comedy Roundup , which featured similar programming to the previous channel with an enhanced focus on Foxworthy and Larry

429-580: The CMT show Bounty Hunters . Jeff Foxworthy had already established himself as a well known, Grammy Award -winning comedian, best known for his jokes and stories about life as a redneck . According to Foxworthy, he got inspired to make the tour when he read a review for the movie The Original Kings of Comedy , and noting that the review considered the movie appealing to more of an "urban, hip" audience, which Foxworthy felt left out his usual demographic of rural audiences. Foxworthy had cast best friend Engvall in

462-408: The Cable Guy , Ron White , and Bill Engvall ), specializing in common-man comedy, toured the country and performed for record crowds. The tour lasted three full years, constantly being extended after an initial run of 20 shows. In 2004, he launched a new television series called Blue Collar TV on The WB . He served as executive producer and starred alongside Blue Collar Comedy Tour-mates Larry

495-489: The Cable Guy and Bill Engvall. (Ron White made occasional guest appearances.) On Larry the Cable Guy's website, he posted that the show was canceled on October 17, 2005, by The WB. Reruns of Blue Collar TV continued until the network merged with UPN to form The CW . In 2006, Foxworthy resurrected the Blue Collar TV format on Country Music Television (CMT) with Foxworthy's Big Night Out . The show began airing in

528-432: The Cable Guy. In August 2011, Foxworthy launched Foxworthy Outdoors, a website carrying an assortment of Foxworthy-brand hunting and outdoors products. On the site, he also hosts a web series called Jeff Foxworthy: Inside & Out , featuring some of his friends as they document hunting trips, fishing outings, and land conservation on his Georgia farm. In 2017 Foxworthy created the card game Relative Insanity ,

561-542: The Most Fun Possible . This book was also co-authored with Hartt and illustrations by DeJarnette . In April 1999, Foxworthy began The Foxworthy Countdown , a nationally syndicated , weekly radio show , which featured the top 30 country hits of the week, as reported by Mediabase . In 2001, he received a Country Music Association nomination for "Broadcast Personality of the Year". The program's last broadcast,

594-463: The Road . By 2006, each of the comedians had become so popular, that they became too busy with their own individual comedy specials and other media to keep the tour going. After the success of the tour, album and live DVD, the comedians recorded a second live DVD called Blue Collar Comedy Tour Rides Again and a series on The WB called Blue Collar TV . Ron White was on the second DVD, and although he

627-492: The Sirius platform. The following is a list of channels on Sirius XM and Sirius XM Canada . There are over 150 full-time channels on Sirius XM, over 140 of which are on Sirius XM Canada. Not included are channels that are specifically used for live sports programming (most of the listed channels, mainly on News and Talk/Comedy, are usually preemptive for sports play-by-play), as well as former music channels that were merged with

660-543: The comedians had more equal length sets. The tour that featured these four "good ole boys" proved to be such a hit that they recorded a live album in November 2001 and the first DVD called Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie in the spring of 2003. The movie underperformed at the box office, but gained high ratings when aired on Comedy Central . The movie would spawn two direct-to-video sequels: The Blue Collar Comedy Tour Rides Again , and The Blue Collar Comedy Tour: One For

693-492: The fall and was canceled after one season of 12 episodes. Foxworthy has authored several books, including You Might Be a Redneck If... (1989), as well as his autobiography, No Shirt, No Shoes, No Problem! (1996). Artist Layron DeJarnette provided illustrations for the Redneck Dictionary books. R. David Boyd has been the exclusive illustrator for most of Foxworthy's books and album covers. He also has released

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726-452: The four comedians would gather together, sitting on stools on stage, doing varying comedy routines and jokes (such as Engvall's "Here's Your Sign" jokes and Foxworthy's "You Might Be A Redneck" routine) to close the show. Foxworthy, due to his high popularity at the time, was always the last performer. By 2004, with Larry's popularity growing, the order was shifted to Engvall, followed by White, followed by Foxworthy, then Larry, though now all of

759-488: The four members but various acts from other working class-esque comedians such as Brian Regan , Rodney Carrington , Kathleen Madigan , John Caponera , Rodney Dangerfield , Ray Romano , and others as well. When Sirius Satellite Radio merged with XM Satellite Radio , this brought more coverage of the channel. Now known as Jeff & Larry's Comedy Roundup , it can be heard on Sirius XM 97. As of 2011, Foxworthy, Engvall and Larry still do comedy tours together under

792-419: The mid-1990s with his own sitcom called The Jeff Foxworthy Show . He has also appeared alongside Engvall and Larry the Cable Guy in several Blue Collar television specials, including Blue Collar TV for The WB . In addition, he hosted the game shows Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? and The American Bible Challenge , as well as the radio program The Foxworthy Countdown . Jeffrey Marshall Foxworthy

825-549: The mock talk show Space Ghost Coast to Coast , where he attempts to explain his famous "You might be a Redneck" joke to Space Ghost , yet fails entirely. Throughout the episode, Space Ghost, Zorak , and Moltar are taking the Ghost Planet to the US , with plans to make it the 51st state. By the end of the episode Foxworthy is sent to "The Box". He hosted Are You Smarter than A 5th Grader? on Fox in prime time . He hosted

858-690: The network did not understand how to properly market his humor; thinking his routine was "too Southern" for a national network ("Has anyone heard me talk?", he commented in one of his stand-up routines), they based the first season of his sitcom in Bloomington, Indiana . Later, the series aired on Nick at Nite and CMT in 2005 and 2006. He also appeared in Alan Jackson 's video for " I Don't Even Know Your Name " in 1995. Foxworthy hosted Country Weekly's " TNN Music City News Country Awards" show for 1998, 1999, and 2000. In 1998, Foxworthy appeared on

891-493: The syndicated version of the series from September 21, 2009, until its cancellation on March 24, 2011. In 2015 it was announced that Foxworthy would return as host of Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? In addition, he is a host on The Bucks of Tecomate which airs on the NBC Sports Network with Alabama native David Morris. He was the subject of a Comedy Central Roast in 2005. In 2011, Foxworthy appeared as

924-604: The title Them Idiots Whirled Tour . This is keeping true to their claim that One for the Road was the last Blue Collar tour, thus respecting the fact that Ron White is not part of it. A CD and DVD of the new show from the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania was released on March 13, 2012. Jeff Foxworthy Jeffrey Marshall Foxworthy (born September 6, 1958) is an American comedian, actor, author, radio and television host, and writer. He

957-411: The tour, but after the original tour, was uncomfortable about performing in front of large audiences and chose to leave the tour. Foxworthy then asked Larry, who he had featured on his nationally syndicated, weekly, country radio show The Foxworthy Countdown , to join. Each show initially featured White and Larry each doing 15-minute sets, followed by Engvall and Foxworthy each doing 30-minute sets, then

990-538: The urging of IBM co-workers, Foxworthy entered and won the Great Southeastern Laugh-off at Atlanta's Punchline comedy club in 1984. In 1993, he released You Might Be a Redneck If… , which topped the comedy albums chart and started the "You Might Be a Redneck " fad . The album went gold in 1994, platinum by 1995, and 3× platinum by 1996, which is more than three million copies. Foxworthy's July 1995 release Games Rednecks Play received

1023-520: The very end by Maddux himself (along with teammate John Smoltz ). In 2001, Foxworthy received a nomination for Best Spoken Comedy Album for the 43rd Annual Grammys. In 1995, Foxworthy starred in The Jeff Foxworthy Show , a sitcom created out of his stand-up comedy persona. It aired on ABC , but was canceled after one season. NBC subsequently picked up the show, but it was again canceled after one season. Later, he remarked that

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1056-762: Was born in Atlanta, Georgia , on September 6, 1958, the first of three children of Carole Linda ( née Camp) and IBM executive Jimmy Abstance Foxworthy. His parents were both of English descent, with his roots lying in the county of Essex . His grandfather, James Marvin Camp, was a Hapeville firefighter for over three decades. He has two younger siblings, Jay Foxworthy and Jennifer Foxworthy. Foxworthy graduated from Hapeville High School . He attended Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, but left just before graduating. He worked for five years in mainframe computer maintenance at IBM, where his father also worked. At

1089-575: Was not a regular on the TV show, he did make guest appearances. A third Blue Collar movie was produced for Comedy Central titled Blue Collar Comedy Tour: One for the Road , which premiered on the channel in June 2006. Blue Collar Comedy Tour: One for The Road was released on DVD in June 2006. In March 2006, the group started a Blue Collar Comedy channel on Sirius Satellite Radio titled Blue Collar Radio . The station features not only various stand-up acts from

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