Jeff Foxworthy Biography

Jeff Foxworthy was born in 1958 in Atlanta, Georgia, and is best known for his unique, “redneck” brand of comedy. After attending Georgia Tech, he worked in the field of computers before his career in comedy began to take off. After performing at a number of local comedy clubs, including Atlanta’s Punchline, he began to develop a following in the mid 1980’s and embarked on a career in comedy.

By the early 1990’s, Foxworthy had been recognized by the American Comedy Awards as Best Stand-up Comic, and his smash-hit release You Might Be a Redneck If…. (1993) sold more than three million copies and topped the charts. Games Rednecks Play followed in 1995 and earned him a Grammy nomination. Totally Committed followed in 1998, and then came Jeff Foxworthy’s own HBO special, which was enormously successful, and the corresponding CD of the performance earned him another Grammy nod in 1999. The Jeff Foxworthy Show launched in the mid 1990’s, and although it was cancelled after only one season, it aired later on CMT and the Nickelodeon channel in 2005. 

In the new millennium, Jeff Foxworthy launched his Blue Collar Comedy Tour alongside Ron White, Larry the Cable Guy, and Bill Engvall. The comedy tour ran for three years and was enormously successful. During this time, Foxworthy also provided voice for the films Racing Stripes (2005), The Fox and the Hound 2 (2006), and The Smurfs (2011.) Most recently, however, Jeff Foxworthy is most frequently associated with the show Are You Smarter Than a 5^th Grader, which he hosted from 2009 to 2011.

In addition to his stand-up and his work in television and film, Jeff Foxworthy has written several best-selling books, including You Might Be a Redneck If… (1989), No Shirt, No Shoes, No Problem! (1996), Rednecks in College (2011), and his Redneck Dictionary Series (editions I, II, and II releasing in 2005, 2006, and 2011.) He has also hosted the radio show Foxworthy Countdown, which ran from 1999 to 2009, and then Blue Collar Radio, which still airs today.