Any other non-"Larry the Cable Guy" fans out there?

[Brigid]

He's just too juvenile for me. Ron White is hilarious, though. :)

[ceile]

1. Can't stand him!

Ron White is the man!

[CBGLuthier]

2. He is like a cross between Junior Samples and Jerry Clower, only dumber.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeDX6ESys10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AX9QoFhEhI

[Brigid]

7. These clips are great!

I had never heard of Jerry Clower before.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

3. I used to love the low-brow humor of "Hee Haw"...

...primarily in its early seasons, while Junior Samples was alive and a member of the cast. After that, it was just a matter of cranking out show after show based on one tired formula.

But Junior could do everything "Larry" does, only better. He had a dry wit and you always knew that no matter how hard you laughed at HIM, in HIS mind, YOU were the joke.

Really miss the guy. Junior, you were the BEST.



:toast:

[Brigid]

4. He looks like Larry.

Poor Junior. :(

[Richardo]

9. Well said.

Hee Haw was a classic, and genuinely funny. They weren't trying to be ironic, or patronizing, or cynical. They just brought the corny.

[Lars39]

21. Clean jokes, too.

Not like Larry talking about prostitutes on the Grand Ole Opry stage.:blush:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

22. And Grady the preacher was funny, too.

He'd tell clean jokes about Sunday school.

I watched Hee Haw so I could see Roy Clark play.

[Arkansas Granny]

28. I saw the Time LIfe ad for the Hee Haw collection not long ago and

I still laughed at the jokes. It was a fun program even if it was hokey.

[gmoney]

5. Can't stand "Larry" big stupid fake act...

This is him before he found his schtick... pure yuppie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIWO5LgUZ28

But I guess the same people who like "Larry" also thought George W. Bush was a lot like them, and they'd want to sit down and have a beer with him.

[Brigid]

6. That's Larry?

:wow:

Never would have recognized him.

[gmoney]

10. Well, "Daniel Whitney"

Look closely at the face, and it's definitely him.

Fool some of the people all of the time...

[deutsey]

25. Yeah, I just had a guy tell me the other day what a "down-to-earth" guy Bush is

:eyes:

That's the first time I've seen "Larry's" previous incarnation, although I had heard about it. I don't know which persona rubs me the wrong way more...

[Tabasco_Dave]

26. I don't like Andrew Dice Clay

but at least he isn't phony like "Larry".

[Richardo]

8. I can't stand either one...

Two guys trying WAY too hard for a hook, and failing miserably.

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. Totally unfunny. Well, maybe not totally - I have laughed a few times.

But he's not creative, and not interesting.

But as you say, Ron White is hilarious! I saw him a month or so ago and laughed my ass off.

[MrCoffee]

12. Agree on both counts

[hippywife]

13. I don't like him, either.

And Ron White is a disgusting example of the redneck male attitude towards women. A misogynist in the extreme.

What? You asked. :rofl:

:hi:


Edited because I mis-read the thread title. :eyes:

[guitar man]

14. He was funny for about a minute and a half

Then he bored me to tears.

I agree about Ron white, he has made me injure myself laughing at his drunk ass :rofl:

[one_voice]

15. I like

Ron White...is he the "tater salad" guy? I think he's the one that did "you can't fix stupid".

[JTG of the PRB]

16. I laugh a bit when I watch him, but I feel stupider and stupider every time I do.

Does that count? :P

[Skittles]

18. counts enough for me to schedule you for ass kicking

yes INDEED

[TK421]

17. I don't laugh when I watch him n/t

[Missy Vixen]

19. Not funny. Not even close to being funny.

Racist, homophobe, misogynist? No, thanks.

Ron White, on the other hand -- hilarious. "Larry the Cable Guy" wishes he were even in the galaxy of funny in comparison to White.

[Bryan]

20. David Cross is a notable member of that group

http://www.bobanddavid.com/2007/10/an_open_letter_to_larry_the_ca.html

"In response to the Rolling Stone article, 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. And they're simple. And please don't mistake this as coming from a place of bitterness because I didn't 'make it' there or, I'm not as successful as you because that's not it at all. Since I was a kid I've always been a little over sensitive to the glorification and rewarding of dumb. The 'salt of the earth, regular, every day folk' (or lowest common denominator) who see the world, and the people like me in it, as on some sort of secular mission to take away their flag lapels and plaster-of-paris jesus television adornments strike me as childishly paranoid."

[rrneck]

23. Ron White

is a pleasure to watch just for his timing.

[underpants]

24. Actually "Delta Farce" was very funny

not what I expected.

[Arkansas Granny]

27. "Larry" was kind of funny the first time I saw him, but he got less funny with time.

Ron White, OTOH, never fails to make me laugh.

[seabeyond]

29. i do enjoy ron white. he lived up by here in fritch tx. larry... doesnt do a damn thing for me

his humor is exactly the type of humor i dont like.

[mikeytherat]

30. He was cute as Mater in the movie "Cars,"

but his inflicting the phrase "git-er-done" on the populace more than offsets that.

mikey_the_rat

[Initech]

31. I don't think of him as a comedian, more like an actor playing the ignorant redneck stereotype.

[Mopar151]

32. The Larry carachter is pretty well over with.

It never was mainstream, and trying to drag it there wore it out. When a comedian has to tell you what's funny, it's not funny any more. He was good as 'Mater in Cars - he should broaden his repretory.

[MajorChode]

33. Not for the ignorant ass rednecks

...and that's probably the funniest joke of it all.