Jeff Foxworthy

He married Pamela Gregg in 1985, and has two daughters with her.

He is closely involved with the Duke University Children’s Hospital in Durham, which specializes in treating children with cancer. He helps the hospital in raising money for cancer treatment.

Jeff was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on September 6, 1958, as the first child of Jimmy Abstance Foxworthy and Carole Linda. His father held a high profile job at IBM and the family lived in an affluent neighborhood.

He attended Hapeville High School where he was the class clown, and loved making his classmates laugh with his funny antics. He listened to the recordings of the comedians Bob Newhart, Flip Wilson, and Bill Cosby during his leisure time.

He attended Georgia Tech in Atlanta to study computer technology.

He began his professional career at IBM where he worked in mainframe computer maintenance. Even though he held that job for five years, he derived more pleasure from making his co-workers laugh than by working with computers.

When Atlanta’s 'Punchline' comedy club announced the 'Great Southeastern Laugh-off' in 1984, his co-workers urged him to participate. He did and won the competition. Inspired by this win he decided to quit his job and devote his life to comedy.

He developed a unique comedic style through which he made fun of rednecks—village people believed to be unsophisticated by the urban ones—through a series of hilarious one-liners. He released a comedy album ‘You Might Be a Redneck If…’ in 1993 which peaked at No.38 on the Billboard 200 chart.

In the 1990s, he released three more comedy albums: ‘Games Rednecks Play’ (1995), ‘Crank It Up: The Music Album’ (1996), and ‘Totally Committed’ (1998). All these albums were a commercial success.

In 1995, he appeared in ‘The Jeff Foxworthy Show,’ which was a sitcom based on his comedy routines. The show ran for just one season before being cancelled. The show was aired by NBC in the next season, but it was cancelled again.

He is best known as a member of the 'Blue Collar Comedy Tour,' which performed in front of sold-out audiences across the U.S., and its success also spawned a highly popular television series and three DVD movies.