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Jeff Foxworthy
Jeffrey M. Foxworthy - born in Atlanta, Georgia on September 6, 1958, is a well-known American stand-up comedian, actor and game-show host who is known for his work as a. His jokes include his trademark sentence is "You might be a redneck if... the first child of James Abstance and Carol Linda (Camp) Foxworthy, his grandfather James Marvin Camp remained a Hapeville fireman for more than 30 years.

Foxworthy graduated from Hapeville High School and was a member of the class of 1979 at Georgia Tech in Atlanta and worked for five years in mainframe maintenance at IBM, where his father was an employee. With the opinion of his co-workers, he entered and also, won the Great Southeastern Laugh-off at Atlanta's Punch Line comedy club in 1984.

In 1993, he released You Might Be a Redneck If... which started the "You Might Be a Redneck" trend, topped the comedy album charts, and sold more than three million copies.

In 1995, he starred in The Jeff Foxworthy Show, a sitcom created out of his stand-up comedy guise. It aired on ABC, but was discarded after one season. NBC, then picked up the show, butagain suffered thru the same fate. Foxworthy later commented that the network did not have the proper understanding of marketing his comedy and wit; thinking his routine was "too Southern" for a national network, they based the first season of his sitcom in Bloomington, Indiana. The ABC run of the show can now be seen on Nick at Nite and CMT.

Presently, he is hosting a game show, entitled Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?, broadcasted on FOX on Thursdays. The show is also shown in Canada on Global Television Network and in the Middle East on Dubai TV.

Foxworthy also released an album called Crank It Up: The Music Album. This disc featured snippets of Foxworthy's standup routines set to music, and several of the singles made the Hot Country Songs charts. His albums Totally Committed and Big Funny also featured musical tracks which charted.

In the early 2000s, Foxworthy went through a career renaissance in effect of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, in which he and three other comedians (Larry the Cable Guy, Ron White, and Bill Engvall), specializing in lay-man comedy, toured the country and performed for record crowds. The tour lasted three full years, persistently being extended after an initial run of 20 shows.

In 2004, he launched a new television show called Blue Collar TV on The WB Television Network and Comedy Central. He serves as executive producer, and stars alongside Blue Collar Comedy Tour-mates Larry the Cable Guy and Bill Engvall. (Ron White turned the show down but made occasional guest appearances). The show was more victorious and success-grasping than the wishy-washy performance of the WB's other sitcoms. However, on Larry the Cable Guy's website, he says the show was canceled on October 17, 2005, by the network. Reruns of Blue Collar TV continued until the network merged with UPN to form The CW.

Jeff has revived the Blue Collar TV format entitled Foxworthy's Big Night Out, which airs on Country Music Television (CMT), which began airing in summer of 2006.

Blue Collar Comedy Radio airs on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 103 and is associated with Raw Dog Comedy on Sirius 104

Foxworthy has created several books, including You Might Be a Redneck If... (1989) and related "redneck humor" books-- as well as his autobiography, No Shirt, No Shoes, No Problem! (1996). He also has released a cookbook entitled The Redneck Grill, co-authored with David Boyd, and Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck Dictionary: Words You Thought You Knew the Meaning Of (2005).

Foxworthy also hosts The Foxworthy Countdown, a national weekly radio show featuring country music hits.

In 2005, Jeff Foxworthy was roasted in a TV special called Comedy Central Roast of Jeff Foxworthy.

In his personal life, Foxworthy was a frequent diner at one of Roswell, Georgia's popular watering holes, The Southern Skillet, when he lived there in the '90s.

In 2006, Foxworthy voiced the character Lyle in the Disney movie The Fox and the Hound 2.

Foxworthy rejected a role in the movie RV because he felt that he would be away from his family for too long. The part instead went to Jeff Daniels Foxworthy stars in a new internet short by Don't Be That Guy Films called "Practical Gifts", in which he explains the importance of getting loved ones "gifts they can use" instead of "gifts they want."

Fox has been best friends with fellow comedian Bill Engvall for a long time. On the Comedy Central Roast of Jeff Foxworthy, originally broadcasted on March 20, 2005, both Engvall and Foxworthy mentioned the fact several times.

According to Ron White in "You Can't Fix Stupid", Foxworthy is responsible for "Jumpstarting his stand-up career, as well as introducing him to the woman he will spend the rest of his life with (which I think makes us even).