Larry the Cable Guy

Biography

The person who added the catch phrases “Git-R-Done” and “Lord, I AM SORRY” towards the American lexicon and drew fans from the pickup truckload to his shows became probably one of the most successful comics of the first 2000s. Dan Whitney, known better as Larry the Wire Guy, promises he was created in the rear of an Un Camino throughout a Foghat concert. His drawl may audio Southern, but Larry grew up on the pig plantation in Pawnee Town, NE. His upbringing was conventional, traditional, and churchgoing. That didn’t imply that remove bars were unthinkable when Larry reached 18 (probably even a small earlier). Fascinated with this redneck lifestyle — “redneck” being truly a term he’s not only great with, but endorses — and often looking to touch upon it, Larry utilized his funny observations to captivate his close friends, who dared him to try his hands at standup. He do in 1986 as well as the fans’ a reaction to his gradual, approachable style got him hooked. 2 yrs afterwards, he relinquished his name as funniest bellhop on the Ramada Inn and lay out for a profession in humor. His one-liner-filled work soon captured word-of-mouth fire within the South and brought him to the eye of television. Performances on Evening on the Improv and Comic Remove Live elevated his group of fans previous rural America, nonetheless it was in the nationally syndicated Bob and Tom Present on radio that Larry got probably the most publicity. His achievement with radio continuing when he became a normal on Jeff Foxworthy’s Nation Countdown Present and Larry shortly began syndicating his “commentaries” to 14 marketplaces in the united states. In 2000 Foxworthy asked the comic to become listed on his Blue Training collar Comedy Tour, alongside Costs Engvall. The effective tour grossed $15 million, marketed a lot more than 1 million copies when released on Dvd movie, and changed Larry right into a superstar. His debut Compact disc, Lord, I AM SORRY, made an appearance in 2001 and became the Dark Aspect of the Moon from the humor graphs — sticking in the very best 20 for just two years working. In 2002, a Humor Central airing of Blue Training collar Humor Tour: The Film became the network’s highest-rated film in its 12-season history, despite having the Dvd and blu-ray accessible. Larry the Wire Man: Git-R-Done became his 1st solo Dvd and blu-ray in 2003, along with a 12 months later on Larry, Foxworthy, and Engvall changed their tour in to the highly rated tv program Blue Collar Television. Putting on his redneckness being a badge of honor while hating politics correctness and racism similarly made Larry a difficult focus on for detractors, but he produced news using a 2004 appearance in the morning hours talk present The Watch. Clay Aiken supporters bombarded the present and the comic with hate email once the comic announced, “I’m in the Clay Aiken diet plan. That is where you play a Clay Aiken Compact disc and make an effort to maintain meals down.” Ignoring the “controversy,” Larry spread vacation cheer by the end of the entire year with his brand-new Compact disc, AN EXTREMELY Larry Xmas, and made an appearance on Blue Collar Comedy Tour Trips Again. THE PROPER to Bare Hands made an appearance in March another season. The entire year 2006 was committed mainly to film, with Larry starring in his very own feature film, Larry the Wire Guy: Wellness Inspector, and providing the tone of voice of Mater within the cartoon Disney/Pixar film Vehicles. He also made an appearance on the Disc Blue Collar Humor Tour: One for the street that season, before time for his solo profession in early 2007 using the record Morning hours Constitutions. By the finish of 2007 his second vacation work, Christmastime in Larryland, strike the shelves.

Quick Facts

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#	Fact
1	Dr. Chad Price at Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children in Orlando, Florida helped cure Larry's son, Wyatt, of hip dysplasia, while Wyatt was an infant. Following this, Larry and his Git-R-Done foundation donated $5 million to the International Hip Dysplasia Institute at the hospital in September, 2010.
2	Son of Tom Whitney and Shirley Whitney.
3	In 2007, Forbes Magazine estimated his earnings for the year at $20 million.
4	Son, Wyatt, born August 2006.
5	Daughter, Reagan, born 29 October 2007.
6	Well before hitting it big with the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, he contributed short, daily commentaries for the rock station 101.1 WJRR, which broadcasts out of Maitland, Florida. He also had put in a short stint with another Orlando-area rock station (100.3 WDIZ) before they abruptly changed formats, prior to his work with WJRR.
7	While Larry's stand-up act contains a great deal of raunchy material he does not use four-letter words.
8	One of his closest friends is fellow comic Lewis Black, who is pretty much his opposite when it comes to political views, background, and performance material.
9	Larry is a huge University of Nebraska fan (mostly football). Although he's lived in Florida for 27 years, he still calls Nebraska home. His accent is a combination of Pawnee City, NE, and his current home near Orlando, FL. He's lived there since he was 16. He's bought a second home south of Lincoln, watches as many games as he can, and recently bought one of the new (2006) sky boxes in the North end-zone. He also tries to wear some article of clothing (usually a hat) that says "Nebraska" or "Huskers" during every performance.
10	His favorite comedians are Steve Martin, Don Rickles, Milton Berle, and Henny Youngman. He has met Henny Youngman. Larry says that he's in the comedy business because of those guys, and a friend named Nick Di Paolo, who used to do stuff on Comedy Central.
11	Is expecting first child with wife Cara Whitney, due August 2006. If it's a girl, they plan on naming the baby Reagan (he says because Ronald Reagan was the greatest president, ever), or Colton if it's a boy, because he says it's a good cowboy name and he likes cowboys.
12	He is a member of the Blue Collar Comedy group, a group of "rednecks" who do stand-up and sketch comedy, together. The other members are his friends: Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall and Ron White.



Actor

Actor

Title	Year	Status	Character
Cars 3	2017	filming	Mater (voice)
Disney Infinity 3.0	2015	Video Game	Mater (voice)
CMT Artists of the Year 2014	2014	TV Movie	Host
Jingle All the Way 2	2014	Video	Larry
Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes	2014	Video Game	Mater (voice)
Tales from Radiator Springs	2014	TV Series	Mater
A Madea Christmas	2013		Buddy
Disney Infinity	2013	Video Game	Mater (voice)
Bounty Hunters	2013	TV Series	Larry
Kinect Fun Labs: Kinect Rush - A Disney Pixar Adventures: Snapshot	2012	Video Game	Mater (English version, voice)
Mater's Tall Tales	2008-2012	TV Mini-Series	Mater Tow Mater
Tooth Fairy 2	2012	Video	Larry Guthrie
Cars 2: The Video Game	2011	Video Game	Mater (voice)
Cars 2	2011		Mater (voice)
Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales	2010	Video	Mater (voice)
Larry the Cable Guy's Hula-Palooza Christmas Luau	2009	TV Movie
Cars Race-O-Rama	2009	Video Game	Mater (voice)
Big Dog Daddy	2009	Short	Possum Boy
Tokyo Mater	2008	Short	Mater (voice)
Witless Protection	2008		Deputy Larry Stalder
Larry the Cable Guy's Christmas Spectacular	2007	TV Movie
Cars Mater-National	2007	Video Game	Mater (voice)
Delta Farce	2007		Larry
Mater and the Ghostlight	2006	Video short	Mater (voice)
Blue Collar TV	2004-2006	TV Series	Various / Various Characters
Cars	2006	Video Game	Mater (voice)
Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector	2006		Larry
Cars	2006		Mater (voice)

Producer

Producer

Title	Year	Status	Character
Only in America with Larry the Cable Guy	2011-2013	TV Series documentary executive producer - 30 episodes
Bounty Hunters	2013	TV Series executive producer - 8 episodes
Larry the Cable Guy: Tailgate Party	2010	TV Movie executive producer
Larry the Cable Guy's Hula-Palooza Christmas Luau	2009	TV Movie executive producer
Comedy Central Roast of Larry the Cable Guy	2009	TV Special documentary executive producer
Larry the Cable Guy's Star-Studded Christmas Extravaganza	2008	TV Special executive producer
Larry the Cable Guy's Christmas Spectacular	2007	TV Movie executive producer
Larry the Cable Guy: Morning Constitutions	2007	TV Movie executive producer

Writer

Writer

Title	Year	Status	Character
Official Tooth Fairy Video: 'Why Do We Lose Our Baby Teeth?'	2012	Video short creator - as Larry
Larry the Cable Guy's Christmas Spectacular	2007	TV Movie
Larry the Cable Guy: Morning Constitutions	2007	TV Movie
Blue Collar Comedy Tour: One for the Road	2006	TV Special documentary
Blue Collar Comedy Tour Rides Again	2004	TV Special documentary
Larry the Cable Guy: Git-R-Done	2004	TV Special documentary
Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie	2003	Documentary writer

Director

Director

Title	Year	Status	Character
Official Tooth Fairy Video: 'Why Do We Lose Our Baby Teeth?'	2012	Video short as Larry

Cinematographer

Cinematographer

Title	Year	Status	Character
Official Tooth Fairy Video: 'Why Do We Lose Our Baby Teeth?'	2012	Video short as Larry

Editor

Editor

Title	Year	Status	Character
Official Tooth Fairy Video: 'Why Do We Lose Our Baby Teeth?'	2012	Video short as Larry

Soundtrack

Soundtrack

Title	Year	Status	Character
Mater's Tall Tales	2010	TV Mini-Series performer - 1 episode

Thanks

Thanks

Title	Year	Status	Character
Larry, the Hairy Fairy	2012	Video documentary short special thanks
Return to Fairyland: Making 'Tooth Fairy 2'	2012	Video documentary short special thanks
Tooth Fairy 2: Introducing Crusher the Pig	2012	Video documentary short special thanks
Larry's Use of the Analogy	2008	Video short special thanks
Making Witless: The Cast on the Cast	2008	Video short special thanks
All the Way to... LA?	2007	Video short special thanks
Hacienda Confidential	2007	Video short special thanks

Self

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
Jeff Foxworthy & Larry the Cable Guy: We've Been Thinking	2016	TV Movie	Himself
Live with Kelly and Michael	2007-2014	TV Series	Himself / Himself - Jingle All the Way 2 / Himself - Guest / ...
WWE Tribute to the Troops	2014	TV Special	Himself
WWE Raw	2014	TV Series	Himself
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno	2005-2014	TV Series	Himself / Himself - Guest
Made in Hollywood	2011-2013	TV Series	Himself
Hannity	2009-2013	TV Series	Himself
Only in America with Larry the Cable Guy	2011-2013	TV Series documentary	Himself - Host / Himself
Through These Gates	2013	Documentary	Larry the Cable Guy
2013 CMT Music Awards	2013	TV Special	Himself
Sidewalks Entertainment	2013	TV Series	Himself - Guest
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson	2007-2013	TV Series	Himself
Larry King Now	2013	TV Series	Himself - Guest
Blake Shelton's Not So Family Christmas	2012	TV Special	Himself (voice)
Them Idiots Whirled Tour	2012	TV Special documentary	Himself - Comic
Larry, the Hairy Fairy	2012	Video documentary short	Himself / Larry Guthrie
Official Tooth Fairy Video: 'Why Do We Lose Our Baby Teeth?'	2012	Video short	Himself - Host (as Larry)
Rachael Ray	2008-2012	TV Series	Himself
Return to Fairyland: Making 'Tooth Fairy 2'	2012	Video documentary short	Himself / Larry Guthrie
Tooth Fairy 2: Introducing Crusher the Pig	2012	Video documentary short	Himself / Larry Guthrie
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon	2011-2012	TV Series	Himself
Art Car: The Movie	2012	Documentary	Himself
Lopez Tonight	2011	TV Series	Himself - Guest
Conan	2011	TV Series	Himself - Guest
Blue Collar Comedy: Ten Years of Funny	2010	TV Movie	Himself
CMT Insider	2008-2010	TV Series	Himself
Larry the Cable Guy: Tailgate Party	2010	TV Movie	Himself
The Bonnie Hunt Show	2009	TV Series	Himself
The Jay Leno Show	2009	TV Series	Himself
Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?	2009	TV Series	Himself
Comedy Central Roast of Larry the Cable Guy	2009	TV Special documentary	Himself - Roastee
Biography	2009	TV Series documentary	Himself
Larry the Cable Guy's Star-Studded Christmas Extravaganza	2008	TV Special	Himself
Celebrity Family Feud	2008	TV Series	Himself
Larry's Use of the Analogy	2008	Video short	Himself
Making Witless: The Cast on the Cast	2008	Video short	Himself
Up Close with Carrie Keagan	2008	TV Series	Himself
Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show	2008	TV Series	Himself
Late Night with Conan O'Brien	2007-2008	TV Series	Himself
All the Way to... LA?	2007	Video short	Himself
Hacienda Confidential	2007	Video short	Himself
The Men of Delta Farce Salute the Troops	2007	Short	Himself
Larry the Cable Guy: Morning Constitutions	2007	TV Movie	Himself
Stars of the Rodeo	2006	TV Movie	Himself
60 Minutes	2006	TV Series documentary	Himself - Comedian (segment "The King of Comedy")
The Road to Cars	2006	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Forbes Celebrity 100: Who Made Bank?	2006	TV Movie	Himself
Henry Cho: Whats That Clickin' Noise?	2006	TV Movie	Himself
Blue Collar Comedy Tour: One for the Road	2006	TV Special documentary	Himself
Jimmy Kimmel Live!	2004-2006	TV Series	Himself
CMT: Greatest Men 2005	2005	TV Movie	Himself
The 2005 Billboard Music Awards	2005	TV Special	Himself
The Ron White Show	2005	TV Movie	Himself
The CMT Music Awards	2005	TV Special	Himself - Presenter
Comedy Central Roast of Jeff Foxworthy	2005	TV Special documentary	Himself
Blue Collar Comedy Tour Rides Again	2004	TV Special documentary	Himself
The View	2004	TV Series	Himself
Larry the Cable Guy: Git-R-Done	2004	TV Special documentary	Himself
Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie	2003	Documentary	Himself
Caroline's Comedy Hour	1993	TV Series	Himself

Archive Footage

Archive Footage

Title	Year	Status	Character
CMT's Biggest Laughs	2012	TV Movie	Himself - Comic
Give It Up for Greg Giraldo	2011	TV Movie documentary	Himself
CMT Insider	2009	TV Series	Himself
Best of CMT Music Awards	2009	TV Special	Himself
60 Minutes	2007	TV Series documentary	Himself - Comedian (segment "The King of Comedy")
Jeff Foxworthy's Comedy Classics	2000	Video documentary

Won awards

Won awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie	Award shared with
2007	VES Award	Visual Effects Society Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Animated Character in an Animated Motion Picture	Cars (2006)	· Michael Krummhoefener · Tom Sanocki · Nancy Kato

Nominated awards

Nominated awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie	Award shared with
2014	Razzie Award	Razzie Awards	Worst Supporting Actor	A Madea Christmas (2013)
2014	Razzie Award	Razzie Awards	Worst Screen Combo	A Madea Christmas (2013)	· Tyler Perry
2009	Razzie Award	Razzie Awards	Worst Actor	Witless Protection (2008)
2009	Razzie Award	Razzie Awards	Worst Screen Couple	Witless Protection (2008)	· Jenny McCarthy
2007	Grammy	Grammy Awards	Best Comedy Album	Blue Collar Comedy Tour: One for the Road (2006)	· Bill Engvall · Ron White · Jeff Foxworthy
2007	OFTA Film Award	Online Film & Television Association	Best Voice-Over Performance	Cars (2006)
2007	Razzie Award	Razzie Awards	Worst Actor	Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector (2006)
2006	Grammy	Grammy Awards	Best Comedy Album	For the album "The Right to Bare Arms."



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#	Quote
1	What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk like that because it makes me laugh, and because I know a couple of people that talk like that. They're really that Southern. And they do funny things. I love 'em; they're awesome. They're good people.
2	The only reason I'm ever in character as 'Larry The Cable Guy' is because that's what I'm hired to do. In my movies, obviously they hired 'Larry The Cable Guy' to be 'Larry The Cable Guy.' When I do my shows, I'm 'Larry The Cable Guy.' When I do Jay Leno, it's: 'Please welcome 'Larry The Cable Guy.''
3	The thing that's changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I hadn't done, but in the past, you can't have it back.
4	Tony Orlando is one of the nicest guys I have ever met - bar none - in my entire life. I was always a fan when I was a kid - you know, huge fan. Who wasn't a fan of Tony Orlando?
5	We try to make the name longer and longer every year. First, it was 'Larry the Cable Guy's Christmas Spectacular.' Then it was 'It's a Very Larry Christmas.' Now it's 'Larry the Cable Guy's Hula-palooza Christmas Luau.' I'll tell you what it is: It's funny. That's what it is. Who cares what the name of it is? It is a funny special.
6	What a piece of garbage this smart car is. There's a commercial - the smart car has zero percent interest for six years. Well, good, I got zero percent in six years in buying this smart car. I'll tell you that much. I mean, it's ridiculous. My buddy has a smart car, totaled it. He hit a deer tick.
7	I think probably one of the coolest things was when I went to play basketball at Rucker Park in Harlem. First of all, who would think that Larry the Cable Guy would go to Harlem to play basketball? And I was received like a rock star. It was amazing! There were people everywhere. There were guys walking by yelling, 'Git 'r done!'
8	I was always a fan of the old-style comics. I loved vaudeville. I loved Milton Berle, Dick Shawn, Phyllis Diller, Don Rickles, Charlie Callas, all those guys. Hilarious. I love the Bing Crosby and Bob Hope movies, and Abbott & Costello. My television influences were 'Monty Python's Flying Circus,' 'Benny Hill,' and 'Hee Haw.'
9	I'm a huge NASCAR fan, but I'm not a gearhead. I've never been into fixing cars. It's not because I don't like it. I would love to know more. It's just my dad never taught me that stuff because my dad wasn't a mechanic.
10	It's nice if people can finally loosen up a little bit and just go out laugh at silliness. I mean, people take themselves way too seriously sometimes.
11	One of my little girls is named Reagan. Her first words were, 'Mr. Larry, tear down this crib.' That was her first words, it was very sweet. My first words were, 'Are you going to finish that sandwich?'
12	I don't judge people by their accent, or how they word things, or how grammatically correct their speech is. Some of the smartest men in the world couldn't spell. I judge a person by their character.
13	I don't really get to see a lot of other comedians, because I work with the same people all the time. The guy I really like is Nick DiPaulo. I love Nick DiPaulo, but again, he's a buddy of mine. But I liked him for a long time. I liked him before he was a buddy of mine.
14	I just developed my act way back in the late '80s. I went to college in Georgia, so I picked up the Southern accent. I talked like that with my friends all the time, because it was fun. It was funny... All my friends were real Southern. We're buddies, so I'd say stuff to make them laugh. So that was pretty much it.
15	I love food: biscuits and gravy, cheese grits, spaghetti and meatballs, chicken-fried steak with white gravy... but my favorite dish is my wife's beanie weenie cornbread casserole. It's so good. It sounds stupid, but if you eat it, it's heaven. Of course, it's only something you can eat if you've got a lot of money.
16	I saw a sign one time that said 'hemorrhoids awareness week' at the doctor's office. Let me tell you, if you got hemorrhoids, I'm sure you are aware of it. You don't need a sign to tell anybody about it.
17	I don't even see it as cable TV anymore. I've been called 'Larry the Cable Guy' for so long, I don't even think about it being about cable. I don't know anything about cable.
18	As a comedian, I don't know if they're laughing because it's funny or if they're laughing at me because I'm not funny. And I'm thinking, 'Who cares? They're laughing.' If you go on stage, and they're laughing at you full-on for 60 minutes? You know, whatever puts them in the seats.
19	'Cars' has been a godsend. I mean, I get paid to talk into a mic. Honestly, I had no idea it would become as big as it did. When I first got the part of Mater, it was actually a small part. I did the voicing for it, though, and the animators liked it so much they rewrote the original script so that Mater could be in it more.
20	Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you don't have kids. When you have kids, things change in your life.
21	Even before I did stand-up, I've always been the kind of guy - and I talk about it on stage - who says I like people and I always look for the good in people. I say, 'Every person has something good about them, if you can just find it.'
22	I've never judged anybody by how they look or how they dress. I basically judge them on their character. And that's how I lead my own life.
23	I've only been to these foreign countries: Canada, L.A. and Miami.
24	Our whole wedding cost 180 bucks. Afterward, we re-heated lasagna for everyone and set off fireworks.
25	We're homebodies. I've gotten to see my kids' first steps, first smiles, first words. Every day is a weekend.
26	When Pixar calls and says, 'Hey, you wanna be in a Pixar movie?' you don't do a lot of contemplating!
27	Every July, I look forward to taping a Christmas show - in July in Nashville. In 98-degree weather. I love it.
28	I'm not a party guy, and I'm not a Hollywood guy, either.
29	I'm saying, Come on, the global warming thing? How did the ice melt during the ice ages? Was the dinosaurs driving SUVs around back then?
30	I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.
31	I've always felt that if you've been blessed, you should try to help as many people as you can. I just think that's the right thing to do.



#	Trademark
1	The voice of Mater in Cars (2006)
2	Baseball cap with a fish hook on it
3	Sleeveless shirts
4	Thick Southern accent
5	His catchphrase, "Git-R-Done!"



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