What happened to Larry the Cable Guy?

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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  David Cross wrote an open letter to Larry at the height of his career. It’s too long for Lemmy to paste it in, but here’s a link to it.

  …wordpress.com/…/david-cross-an-open-letter-to-la…

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  • BanjoShepard@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What a wonderful read.

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  • 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What an unmissable sign-off line

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  • Godric@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What a fantastic read, I’m sitting here cackling reading it

    but first let me say this; you are very mistaken if you think that I don’t know your audience.

    Hell, I could’ve been heckled by the parents of some of the very people that come see you now. I grew up in Roswell, Georgia (near the Funny Bone and not far from The Punch Line). The very first time I went on stage was at The Punch Line in Sandy Springs in 1982 when I was 17. I cut my teeth in the south and my first road gigs ever were in Augusta, Charleston, Baton Rouge, and Louisville. I remember them very well, specifically because of the audience. I remember thinking (occasionally, not all the time) “what a bunch of dumb redneck, easily entertained, ignorant motherfuckers. I can’t believe the stupid shit they think is funny.” So, yes, I do know your audience, and they suck.

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• jewbacca117@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Don’t really care about Larry, Ron White was the only funny one

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  • AstralPath@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Eh. Larry was often tiresome but he had some really good jokes every once in a while. I didn’t care much for Engvall. Foxworthy had the occasional zinger too. Ron White was funny as hell though.

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    • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I loved the way he blended his comedy into pseudo-lectures. Very dry, unlike his liver

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    • jewbacca117@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I forgot all about Engvall, but I agree. Larry and Foxworthy got old for me. White’s bit on homophobia is one of my favorites.

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  • TheBraveSirRobbin@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m at an age where I know who the guy is but don’t know much of his work. No clue who Ron White is, only reason Larry came to mind for me is this clip that isn’t even him m.youtube.com/watch?v=l9Jblh5ssrw

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    • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You may know him as “Tater Salad”

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  • figjam@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No shit! Off to find out what Ron is up to these days.

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• Cruxifux@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  He runs commercials for his Sirius xm show all the time so unfortunately no, he is still around.

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  • TheBraveSirRobbin@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    He has a Sirius XM show? Wild, never thought I’d see the day

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    • Cruxifux@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah him and Jeff Foxworthy. It sounds like something you put on when you’re going on a date with your sister from the ads.

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• sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  He made enough money from voicing Mater in “Cars” and its sequels that he doesn’t really ever need to work anymore. He talks about it in an interview and he actually tears up at how kind John Lasseter was.

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