BTW, if you want to hear REAL rednecks speaking, I have a truly bizarre video from 1957 which I can post upon request. When you hear the real rednecks speaking you will understand it is very hard to imitate. And, like I said, the video is VERY bizarre.
Anybody out there need fainting salts to recuperate from the shock of hearing the REAL accent of Larry the Cable Guy?
Post the real thing, please. I love rednecks. Hell, I am one.
You are over reacting. It wasn’t that bad. where is the redneck/hick video?
I like his positive attitude towards America. Hope it’s not just for show, like his accent. On one of his shows he runs into an man who modified a car in honor of our Vets and Larry got all choked up with a tear in his eye. It wasn’t contrived, either.
He may not be a hillbilly but the tape sounds a bit fast which raises the tone a few octaves.
He has a redneck heart though. You just can’t fake that.
I have heard him speak about his past and his work in the tech industry.
This is not shocking at all. I was raised in the south and I know a real southern drawl when I hear one. Daniel Lawrence Whitney’s entire persona and southern accent seems completely contrived. This video proves that it is.
Good thang Larry found his niche or is that necke?
I can just imagine some comedian giving him advice:
Dan, (his real name is Dan Whitney) I got some advice for you. Rip off your sleeves, grow a beard, and talk like a hick. You’ll make millions.
I will be the first to say it...looks and talks like a phaggot in that video.
He had a mix of northeast accents there.....checking wiki (yeah, I know) he was born and grew up in Nebraska and did a lot of radio gigs in the 90’s - including in New England - probably picked up this accent for the skits on those stations....and kept in character for this one on the video
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_the_Cable_Guy
He’s from a small town in southeast Nebraska (not far from my first parish). They’re small town/rural folk out that way, with a mild twang but not a full-blown redneck accent. (Me, I’m a northern-urban-accented Chicago guy).
He said during a Hannity interview that he was from Maryland. I figured it was the southern part.
Larry is a fraud with a good shtick.
It makes me laugh to think that there are so many people who think “Larry the Cable Guy” is a real person. It is a character, just like “Red Green” is a character.
The fact that so many easily swallow these characters as being real helps explain why so many slimy leftist politicians can make people believe their public personas (characters) are real.
Gullible people: The U.S. has got ‘em.
I saw him do his “normal” act at McCurdys Comedy Club in Sarasota FL back in early 90’s..forget when exactly. He was just getting to be known as “Larry The Cable guy” via weekly spots on the Ron-and-Ron radio show when he would call in as Larry. My wife was a waitress at the club, so I’d dropped in every once and a while when getting a babysitter was warranted. He did about the first 60% of the show with his “normal” act like the clip shows, but everyone started chanting “Larry, Larry, Larry..”, so he gave in and did the rest of the show as we all know him today..lol Ah memories of the old days...
I remember he would call up the talk radio stations in Omaha/Lincoln back in the 90's with some jokes and do his version of Christmas carol songs.
Big Nebraska Cornhusker fan.
Hard to believe that’s Larry the Cable Guy.
He’s definitely funnier as Larry the cable guy.
As for the 1957 movie, I’ve been around east Tennessee Appalachian types that would make those guys sound like city slickers.
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