No Shirt, No Shoes, No Problem!
by Jeff Foxworthy
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America's favorite Southern-fried, stand-up comedian and TV sitcom star Jeff Foxworthy brings his humor to the page in this riotous laugh-out-loud book. In No Shirt. No Shoes. . . . No Problem!, Foxworthy examines the hilarity of growing up, love, sex, crazy families, roommates, friendship, mooning, having a crush on your cousin, and the real stories behind many of his favorite Redneck jokes. So get ready: You're in for a helluva good time! More than 10 years ago, Jeff Foxworthy decided to show more quit his job as an IBM engineer to work the comedy club circuit. In his first six years on the road, he won the Great Southeastern Laff-Off, the Zanies/Pepsi-Cola Laff-Off, and the Coors Laff-Off. In 1990, he captured the award for "Best Stand-Up Comic" at the American Comedy Awards. After critical acclaim and rave reviews for his first Showtime special, he landed a second, which went on to earn a Cable ACE Award nomination. Rejected six times by Star Search for being "too Southern," Foxworthy is now one of the hottest comedians around, with seven bestselling books and two multi-platinum comedy albums--You Might Be a Redneck If . . . (the biggest-selling comedy album of all time) and Games Rednecks Play. His primetime-TV sitcom, The Jeff Foxworthy Show, airs each week on ABC. A native of Atlanta, Georgia, Foxworthy currently resides in Los Angeles, California, with his wife and two daughters. show lessTags
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Absolutely hysterical! Speaks to some of life's basic truths but in a totally unexpected and funny way... also reveals where Foxworthy came from. Fascinating read for me.
Interesting. A bit boring at times, but he counterbalances that with plenty of amusing anecdotes.
Good for a laugh.
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Jeffrey Marvin "Jeff" Foxworthy (born September 6, 1958) is an American stand-up and television personality. He is the best-selling comedy recording artist of all time. His first two albums were each certified 3×multi-Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. Foxworthy has also written several books based on his redneck jokes, as show more well as an autobiography entitled No Shirt, No Shoes... No Problem! He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and attended Georgia Tech, but did not graduate. In 1995, he starred in The Jeff Foxworthy Show. He is married and has two daughters. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Dedication
- For my uncle Jack--a great guy who owns a mountain of comedy records and let me listen to every one of them | To Gregg and the girls for this and everything else.
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 792.028 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Theater: Plays, Ballet, Opera modified standard subdivisions Techniques, procedures, apparatus, equipment, materials, miscellany Acting and Performance
- LCC
- PN6231 .R38 .F675 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature Wit and humor
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- Reviews
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 7
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