Larry the Cable Guy represents everything wrong with America today. He embodies the racism, intolerance, crudity, immaturity, and generally unpleasant nature of a lot of people. He's an unfunny bigot -- but more than that, he's a fraud. He claims to be from the south -- and indeed has built his entire comedy career on this -- but he actually grew up in the mid-west and his name is Dan Whitney. He doesn't actually speak with a southern twang accent -- it's all a persona he fits into to make money. There are some rare video clips of him out there where he speaks without an accent, any redneck "Git-R-Done" fans should check them out for a shock.
I was watching an interview with "Larry" on CMT a few nights ago and he said he doesn't pay attention to the detractors because he "does this for the fans." He admitted that most of his fans are 14-year-old boys and therein lies the problem: Larry appeals to young teenage boys, and his entire comedy routine is the equivalent of visiting a random teenage boy's home and eavesdropping on his conversations with friends.
Larry does something that another annoying loudmouth fraud, Carlos Mencia (real name: Ned), does: if you don't laugh at his jokes, he says you don't understand them. Or he talks down to you.
When people don't laugh at his crude toilet humor, Larry says, "I don't care who ya are, that's funny right there." Right. Maybe for those of us who lived near nuclear plants as children.
Larry spews wonderfully humorous one-liners, such as, "You ever tuck your weeny in between your legs and look in the mirror to see what it'd be like if you were a girl?" Yeah. Great stuff, Larry.
A very prescient, witty and insightful comedian. He's the next Lenny Bruce.
I was watching an interview with "Larry" on CMT a few nights ago and he said he doesn't pay attention to the detractors because he "does this for the fans." He admitted that most of his fans are 14-year-old boys and therein lies the problem: Larry appeals to young teenage boys, and his entire comedy routine is the equivalent of visiting a random teenage boy's home and eavesdropping on his conversations with friends.
Larry does something that another annoying loudmouth fraud, Carlos Mencia (real name: Ned), does: if you don't laugh at his jokes, he says you don't understand them. Or he talks down to you.
When people don't laugh at his crude toilet humor, Larry says, "I don't care who ya are, that's funny right there." Right. Maybe for those of us who lived near nuclear plants as children.
Larry spews wonderfully humorous one-liners, such as, "You ever tuck your weeny in between your legs and look in the mirror to see what it'd be like if you were a girl?" Yeah. Great stuff, Larry.
A very prescient, witty and insightful comedian. He's the next Lenny Bruce.