Posted on 07/09/2012 2:50:15 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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.
In reality there are few rednecks left due to urbanization of all society including in the South. However, the video I have is of two rednecks in a low budget movie with terrible acting. Their redneck accents are notable plus the fact they definitely have redneck mannerisms. The video is both funny and strangely disturbing. Overall quite bizarre but the rednecks are definitely authentic. I just don't think you see many rednecks like this anymore.
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.
I have a 1957 video that has a bizarre scene of two rednecks. It is supposed to be a comedic scene but comes off as creepily menacing. I figure both rednecks to have been in their late 40s so they were brought up before television and maybe didn't even have electricity at home. When you're a kid growing up with TV, the Internet, and video games, you are way too urbanized to be a real redneck, few of whom actually exist anymore.
You could argue with me on the latter point but after you see my video of REAL rednecks, you would be hard pressed to think of anybody you know who acts like that anymore.
p.s. Junior Samples was REAL Redneck.
Um... He was born in Nebraska and raised in West Palm Beach. I lived in West Palm as well for awhile and, believe me, you could go a very LONG time without spotting a redneck. In fact, the nearest rednecks would probably be in Belle Glade or Okeechobee...miles away.
Redneck isn’t really a southern thing. There are native Alaskan and Canadian rednecks and everywhere in between.
He was raised from age nine in West Palm Beach. Not exactly Red Neck country.
Must’ve misheard. Maybe he said living in Maryland. Hannity usually doesn’t have my full attention.
You’ve got me on the edge of my seat. Seriesly. You gonna post it?
As for “real” rednecks, I know some and a person can’t make better, more loyal friends. If they like you, they’ll die for you. If they don’t, well... watch out for the stew. “That thar ain’t no varmint meat.” :-)
Anyway. You ever watch the tv shows about gator hunters down in Louisiana? You know, the ones where you have to read what they’re saying? Well, I can turn my back, close my eyes, not watch their lips move while they’re speaking and fluently interpret to English. I impress loads of folks with that trick on the weekends around here.
Now, come on! Where’s the vid? Is it on da utoob?
Maybe I should post my video so you can see authentic southern rednecks. You just don't see them in Alaska or Canada.
Larry is a fraud with a good shtick.
Jerry Clower’s story “A New Bull” is a real classic.
You’re talking about an accent, I’m talking about an attitude and philosophy.
Are you gonna post the video already or do we have to wait 24 business hours?
As I said, I was raised in the south. We lived on a dirt road in what could best be described as the swamps of Northern Florida/Southern Georgia. Of 8 kids, the eldest 4 were born in the house and the youngest 4 were fortunate enough to have been born in a hospital. We got our first TV in 1966. I knew what they were as I had seen one before at a neighbors. We didn’t have a phone until then also. We chopped wood for heat and eat, drank and bathed in sulfur water. I would imagine there are few southerners who live today the way we did back then but I have been back there many times and have never seen one. In the south in the 60s, everyone was a redneck.
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...
“Turtleman” is pretty close.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cAVTvc89ME&feature=relmfu
I live in ‘redneck country’....and PROUD of it! I get tickled watching ‘Swamp People’ because they put subtitles on it for the ‘city folk’. *snort*
I grew up listening to Jerry Clower and coon hunting. The guy we used to sell hides to was a Georgia redneck near Munith Michigan. When we walked into there it was like stepping into central Georgia with all the cousins and nephews he had working for him.
Jerry was a dear friend of mine, and I can tell you for a fact that he was as genuine as the day was long. You couldn’t find a truer friend, a better Christian, or a funnier man.
When my father was diagnosed with terminal cancer, Jerry sat down and taped an entire routine just for him, starting off, “Rev. Clews, this here is Jerry Clower ...” and then launching into some of his most hilarious material.
What a wonderful man. What treasured memories.
He’s too sophisticated and eloquent to be a redneck.
My wife was born, and spent the first three years of her life, in the far west corner of rural Virginia. She then spent the rest of her childhood growing up in West Palm Beach, Florida.
To this day, there's no mistaking her accent. She'll never lose that twang.
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.
“In the south in the 60s, everyone was a redneck.”
Boy Howdy. We had that whole Scots-Irish redneck thing going on up in Tennessee.
“I get tickled watching ‘Swamp People’ because they put subtitles on it for the ‘city folk’. *snort*”
That show rankles me. I hate to see Southern people made fun of when there are just as many low-IQ, booger-pickin’, uni-brows up North.
Yes, Jerry was a good man, when he was a fertilizer salesman, he would eat at our house or we would all go to Doe’s Eat Place.
I grew up about 40 miles straight west of Pawnee City. His accent (on the video) is exactly the same as mine which is no accent. You Chicago guys, now that’s an accent!!(kidding)
Larry (or Dan or whatever) lives down in Lincoln now most of the time. He donates multi millions of dollars to charity and alot to the Husker athletic department so he is a pretty popular guy. I haven’t met him personally but used to go see him in the local comedy club before he hit it big with the Blue Collar Comedy tour. He used to call into radio shows and do comedy bits as Larry the Cable Guy back in the late 90’s and it just kind of blossomed from there I think. Many of his comedy bits on the radio shows were very conservative and not making fun us, either. His tagline on these rants was “what the hell is this, Russia?” even before git r done.
I have some friends from central Georgia. The father and 6 uncles were all ministers who all “got the spirit” at the same time in a tent revival back in the 50s.
Good people who held to a few simple rules. Don’t curse around the womenfolk, A handshake is a contact, and a favor done without without being asked is one that will be repaid the same way.
I had a flat tire one time and my friend’s dad said he would pick me up so I could get it fixed. Two hours later I was wondering where he was and he showed up with 4 good used tired all mounted and ready to go on my truck. I spent the rest of that summer checking in with he and his wife to see if they needed any help with things.
On the other hand there are plenty of good folks here from the north who are the same way. One of the old timers in my home town showed up and gave a car to a friend of mine. Said he got a good deal on it and couldn’t pass it up but didn’t need it. He told my friend he could pay back the $500 when he could.
So, you have some of the great old memories of him as well. Most people don’t realize that he started out selling fertilizer. He told me, that’s where he first started telling his Ledbetter stories.
So, you have some of the great old memories of him as well. Most people don’t realize that he started out selling fertilizer. He told me, that’s where he first started telling his Ledbetter stories.
Thanks for sharing those memories. Sounds like a lot of the same kind of folks I grew up around in the Fifties. As Lonesome George Gobel used to say, “They don’t hardly make them kind no more.”
Hard to believe that’s Larry the Cable Guy.
I took all I could of it but forced myself to watch the part around the 42’ mark. Probably going to see a psychiatrist tomorrow and I won’t be mentioning you in my prayers tonight. ;-)
(Thanks for the lighthearted thread, PJ. They’re desperately needed these days, and some of the replies were heartwarming.)
Best Regards,
SC
One of my favorites is “A Rat Killing.”
“In reality there are few rednecks left due to urbanization of all society including in the South.”
Nonsense. If your bowling alley has valet parking, you might be a....
I spent a day working for an old guy near Cadillac Michigan back about 93. At the end of the day the old man handed me $12. It irritated me fr obvious reasons but I thanked him and went on my way considering it a lesson leaned.
The next day he showed up at my house pulling a flatbed trailer stacked with aluminum siding and copper wire. He said that he had some guys tear down a couple of old house trailers but didn’t want the hassle of stripping the wire. I figured he couldn’t rip me off there so I told him I’d take it. A couple hours of stripping wire and I made more than $1500.
The next day I took his trailer back and he asked how much I made and said that it was about what he figured. It was then that I realized that he wasn’t being a jerk by paying me $12, it just happened to be all the cash he had in his pocket when he paid me.
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