1. Jeffrey Marshall Foxworthy was born on September 6,1958 and is an American comedian, actor, writer, and radio and television host.
32 Facts About Jeff Foxworthy
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Jeff Foxworthy is a member of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, with Larry the Cable Guy, Bill Engvall, and formerly Ron White.
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Jeff Foxworthy has written several books based on his redneck jokes, as well as an autobiography entitled No Shirt, No Shoes.
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Jeff Foxworthy has appeared alongside Engvall and Larry the Cable Guy in several Blue Collar television specials, including Blue Collar TV for The WB.
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Jeffrey Marshall Foxworthy was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on September 6,1958, the first of three children of Carole Linda and IBM executive Jimmy Abstance Foxworthy.
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Jeff Foxworthy's parents were both of English descent, with his roots lying in the county of Essex.
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Jeff Foxworthy's grandfather, James Marvin Camp, was a Hapeville firefighter for over three decades.
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Jeff Foxworthy has two younger siblings, Jay Foxworthy and Jennifer Foxworthy.
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Jeff Foxworthy attended Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, but left just before graduating.
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Jeff Foxworthy worked for five years in mainframe computer maintenance at IBM, where his father worked.
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At the urging of IBM co-workers, Jeff Foxworthy entered and won the Great Southeastern Laugh-off at Atlanta's Punchline comedy club in 1984.
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In 2001, Jeff Foxworthy received a nomination for Best Spoken Comedy Album for the 43rd Annual Grammys.
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In 1995, Foxworthy starred in The Jeff Foxworthy Show, a sitcom created out of his stand-up comedy persona.
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Jeff Foxworthy appeared in Alan Jackson's video for "I Don't Even Know Your Name" in 1995.
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Jeff Foxworthy hosted Country Weekly's "TNN Music City News Country Awards" show for 1998,1999, and 2000.
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In 1998, Jeff Foxworthy appeared on the mock talk show Space Ghost Coast to Coast, where he attempts to explain his famous "You might be a Redneck" joke to Space Ghost, yet fails entirely.
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Jeff Foxworthy hosted the syndicated version of the series from September 21,2009, until its cancellation on March 24,2011.
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Jeff Foxworthy was the subject of a Comedy Central Roast in 2005.
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Since August 2012, Jeff Foxworthy has been the host and a producer of the GSN biblical-themed game show The American Bible Challenge, which has aired two seasons.
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Jeff Foxworthy is the host of the food reality competition series The American Baking Competition, which aired its first season in summer 2013.
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Jeff Foxworthy has appeared as host and featured guest on several programs on the Outdoor Channel and Versus.
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In February 2019, Jeff Foxworthy was announced as a judge for NBC's comedy competition series Bring the Funny.
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Jeff Foxworthy served as executive producer and starred alongside Blue Collar Comedy Tour-mates Larry the Cable Guy and Bill Engvall.
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In 2006, Jeff Foxworthy resurrected the Blue Collar TV format on Country Music Television with Jeff Foxworthy's Big Night Out.
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Jeff Foxworthy has authored several books, including You Might Be a Redneck If.
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Jeff Foxworthy has released a cookbook entitled The Redneck Grill, co-authored with Newnan, Georgia, artist R David Boyd, and "Redneck Extreme Mobile Home Makeover", a book with some of his redneck jokes.
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In February 2008, Jeff Foxworthy released his first children's book Dirt On My Shirt.
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In May 2008, Jeff Foxworthy released How to Really Stink at Golf, with co-author Brian Hartt and illustrations by Layron DeJarnette.
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In 2017 Jeff Foxworthy created the card game Relative Insanity, a game similar to Cards Against Humanity with a family theme.
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Jeff Foxworthy met his wife Pamela Gregg at the Punchline in Atlanta, Georgia, and they married on September 18,1985.
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Jeff Foxworthy is a noted hunting enthusiast, beginning when he was a teen hunting on his father's farm property in Central Georgia.
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In 2012, Jeff Foxworthy endorsed Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, and later stated that Donald Trump is "tapping into the American spirit".