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artmorris
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Posted: Mon Mar 10th, 2008 03:11 am |
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OK, so here's a question to ponder.
Can you draw a line from the "country comedians" of the past like Stringbean, Minnie Pearl and the like to Larry the Cable Guy?
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AdamWest
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Posted: Mon Mar 10th, 2008 03:49 am |
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How about a direct line via the Grand Ole Opry?
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Wesley Wallace
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Posted: Mon Mar 10th, 2008 01:12 pm |
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No. I feel that the comedians of the past that you mentioned were clean and didn't need "off-color" humor to make people laugh. Larry the Cable Guy is a substitute for the real thing. What really bothers me about him is he has this ability to say the nastiest things and get away with it. Because of him using his "country green" accent, he can say the foulest thing as long as he uses that accent and no one seems to mind. Not even parents!
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Turner the burner
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Posted: Tue Mar 11th, 2008 12:33 pm |
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That line would have to go through the cornfield of Hee Ha on which String and Minnie both appeared. Hee Ha also had the scantily clad hee ha honeys and some fairly risque humor with lots of sexual innuendo. Jeff Foxworthy is pretty "clean" but the voice and southern draw are about the same. Then there was (the name escapes me) that southern comedian who was a regular on Ralph Emery's Nashville Now...he too had mostly g-rated humor.
I would like to add that country music has always been full of sex and cheating songs and songs by Conway and others that I enjoyed in the past are somewhat uncomfortable for me to listen too nowadays with the grandson in the car.
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artmorris
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Posted: Tue Mar 11th, 2008 12:50 pm |
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Setting aside the 'raunch' factor for the moment...
What I like about Larry the Cable Guy is that he honed his character on RADIO. Dan Whitney was a struggling comic without an identity until the starting selling his "Larry" character to morning radio shows. He also did some radio himself.
Next thing you know, Dan's rich, and nationally famous.
"Larry" often credits morning radio as the foundation for his success.
Here's a link to Dan Whitney before the developed the "larry" character.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VROn7ZvVoW8
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Desdinova the Super Villain of the Ozark
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Posted: Tue Mar 11th, 2008 08:19 pm |
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Turner the burner wrote: That line would have to go through the cornfield of Hee Ha on which String and Minnie both appeared. Hee Ha also had the scantily clad hee ha honeys and some fairly risque humor with lots of sexual innuendo. Jeff Foxworthy is pretty "clean" but the voice and southern draw are about the same. Then there was (the name escapes me) that southern comedian who was a regular on Ralph Emery's Nashville Now...he too had mostly g-rated humor.
I would like to add that country music has always been full of sex and cheating songs and songs by Conway and others that I enjoyed in the past are somewhat uncomfortable for me to listen too nowadays with the grandson in the car.
One name comes to my mind as the missing link to Larry: Junior Samples. He also started on radio as a sidekick. With both of these guys you don't know where the character begins or ends. They seem to be natural in their delievery so you think you are listening to some guy off the street.
While not a "country" act, there is a lot of Johnathan Winter's Elroy character in Larry.
"Son, stop doing that to the dog. That why he ain't been walking right."
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Posted: Fri Mar 14th, 2008 11:02 pm |
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| Don't DOUBT Jerry Clower, he was THE hot country comedian in the 70's and early 80's.
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