Last weekend Jeff Foxworthy included a little spiel about why he loves country music into his CMT Award-show schtick. Supposed country music is about the important things, God,country, love, broken hearts, family, cheating etc., and that’s why he loves it. He said that it is not about violent thuggishness, or taking political sides (a little swipe at the Dixie Chicks and Hip-hop there). Foxworthy made his money entertaining retards with humor that is the very opposite of edgy or enlightening. His humor, the patented, repetitive routine, like that of Carrot-top, Pauly Shore or Gallagher, marks is fans as those of lesser intelligence. They like him because one joke is the same as the next, no variation means no thought, no need to try to understand, you can laugh on cue. Simple, unoriginal humor for simple unoriginal people.
Ron White, in an interview said that Foxworthy was better than Pryor or Cosby since his album sales have been greater than both Pryor’s and Cosby’s combined. Ron White is a brown-nosing hanger-on with an equally limited set of jokes that he repeats endlessly. Note that the humor of the aforementioned black comedians was more complex, full of nuance and depending on actual life-experience. A certain amount of sophistication is needed to appreciate Pryor/Cosby comedy, especially for white people who need to be familiar with speech and lifestyle that differs from their own. Jeff Foxworthy caters to the lowest intellectual class of white America. Note this
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