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American comedian, actor, host, and writer

Jeffrey Marshall Foxworthy (born September 6, 1958) is an American comedian, actor, author, radio and television host, and writer. He is a member of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, with Larry the Cable Guy, Bill Engvall, and formerly Ron White. Known for his "You might be a redneck" one liners, Foxworthy has released six major label comedy albums. His first two albums were each certified triple Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. He has written several books based on his redneck jokes, as well as an autobiography entitled No Shirt, No Shoes No Problem! Foxworthy has also made several ventures into television, starting in the mid 1990s with his own sitcom called The Jeff Foxworthy Show. He has also appeared alongside Engvall and Larry the Cable Guy in several Blue Collar television specials, including Blue Collar TV for The WB. In addition, he hosted the game shows Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? and The American Bible Challenge, as well as the radio program The Foxworthy Countdown.

Jeffrey Marshall Foxworthy was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on September 6, 1958, the first of three children of Carole Linda (née Camp) and IBM executive Jimmy Abstance Foxworthy. His parents were both of English descent, with his roots lying in the county of Essex. Foxworthy graduated from Hapeville High School. He attended Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, but left just before graduating. He worked for five years in mainframe computer maintenance at IBM, where his father also worked. At the urging of IBM co workers, Foxworthy entered and won the Great Southeastern Laugh off at Atlanta's Punchline comedy club in 1984.

In 1993, he released You Might Be a Redneck If , which topped the comedy albums chart and started the "You Might Be a Redneck" fad. The album went gold in 1994, platinum by 1995, and 3× platinum by 1996, which is more than three million copies. Foxworthy's July 1995 release Games Rednecks Play received a 1996 Grammy nomination for Best Spoken Comedy Album. Totally Committed was released in May 1998. In conjunction with the album was a one hour HBO stand up special by the same name. The album reached "gold" status and received a 1999 Grammy Award nomination. The video for the Totally Committed song featured frequent references to then Atlanta Braves pitcher, Greg Maddux as well as an appearance at the very end by Maddux himself (along with teammate John Smoltz). In 2001, Foxworthy received a nomination for Best Spoken Comedy Album for the 43rd Annual Grammys.

In 1995, Foxworthy starred in The Jeff Foxworthy Show, a sitcom created out of his stand up comedy persona. It aired on ABC, but was canceled after one season. NBC subsequently picked up the show, but it was again canceled after one season. Later, he remarked that the network did not understand how to properly market his humor; thinking his routine was "too Southern" for a national network ("Has anyone heard me talk? ", he commented in one of his stand up routines), they based the first season of his sitcom in Bloomington, Indiana. Later, the series aired on Nick at Nite and CMT in 2005 and 2006. He also appeared in Alan Jackson's video for "I Don't Even Know Your Name" in 1995. Foxworthy hosted Country Weekly's "TNN Music City News Country Awards" show for 1998, 1999, and 2000. In 1998, Foxworthy appeared on the mock talk show Space Ghost Coast to Coast, where he attempts to explain his famous "You might be a Redneck" joke to Space Ghost, yet fails entirely. Throughout the episode, Space Ghost, Zorak, and Moltar are taking the Ghost Planet to the US, with plans to make it the 51st state. By the end of the episode Foxworthy is sent to "The Box". He hosted Are You Smarter than A 5th Grader? on Fox in prime time. He hosted the syndicated version of the series from September 21, 2009, until its cancellation on March 24, 2011. In 2015 it was announced that Foxworthy would return as host of Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? In addition, he is a host on The Bucks of Tecomate which airs on the NBC Sports Network with Alabama native David Morris. He was the subject of a Comedy Central Roast in 2005. In 2011, Foxworthy appeared as a guest “Shark” for two episodes of ABC's second season of Shark Tank. Since August 2012, Foxworthy has been the host and a producer of the GSN biblical themed game show The American Bible Challenge, which has aired two seasons. He is also the host of the food reality competition series The American Baking Competition, which aired its first season in summer 2013. Foxworthy has appeared as host and featured guest on several programs on the Outdoor Channel and Versus. In February 2019, Foxworthy was announced as a judge for NBC's comedy competition series Bring the Funny. In 2020, a new episode of Ellen's Game of Games featured Jeff Foxworthy on a game of Stink Tank.

In the early 2000s, Foxworthy had a career resurgence as a result of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, in which he and three other comedians (Larry the Cable Guy, Ron White, and Bill Engvall), specializing in common man comedy, toured the country and performed for record crowds. The tour lasted three full years, constantly being extended after an initial run of 20 shows. In 2004, he launched a new television series called Blue Collar TV on The WB, Comedy Central, and Comedy Network (2007). He served as executive producer and starred alongside Blue Collar Comedy Tour mates Larry the Cable Guy and Bill Engvall. (Ron White made occasional guest appearances.) On Larry the Cable Guy's website, he posted that the show was canceled on October 17, 2005, by The WB. Reruns of Blue Collar TV continued until the network merged with UPN to form The CW. In 2006, Foxworthy resurrected the Blue Collar TV format on Country Music Television (CMT) with Foxworthy's Big Night Out. The show began airing in the fall and was canceled after one season of 12 episodes.

In April 1999, Foxworthy began The Foxworthy Countdown, a nationally syndicated, weekly radio show, which featured the top 30 country hits of the week, as reported by Mediabase. In 2001, he received a Country Music Association nomination for "Broadcast Personality of the Year". The program's last broadcast, the 2009 year end countdown, aired the weekend of December 27, 2009. In 2006, Sirius Satellite Radio launched the Blue Collar Comedy channel, which featured stand up comedy centered around the Blue Collar group. In 2015, now under the SiriusXM banner, the station rebranded as Jeff & Larry's Comedy Roundup, which featured similar programming to the previous channel with an enhanced focus on Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy.

In August 2011, Foxworthy launched Foxworthy Outdoors, a website carrying an assortment of Foxworthy brand hunting and outdoors products. On the site, he also hosts a web series called Jeff Foxworthy: Inside & Out, featuring some of his friends as they document hunting trips, fishing outings, and land conservation on his Georgia farm.

In 2017 Foxworthy created the card game Relative Insanity, a game similar to Cards Against Humanity with a family theme. Family Game Shelf praised the game, saying "it will have you laughing until your sides hurt".

Foxworthy met his wife Pamela Gregg at the Punchline in Atlanta, Georgia, and they married on September 18, 1985. They have two daughters, Jordan and Julianne. He is a noted hunting enthusiast, beginning when he was a teen hunting on his father's farm property in Central Georgia.

Foxworthy's comedy act is apolitical and he has disavowed the memes circulating on social media that appear to show him making jokes at the expense of liberals in his stand up. In 2012, Foxworthy endorsed Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, and had donated in the 2000s to the presidential campaign of George W. Bush, as well as the Republican National Committee. In 2015 he stated that Donald Trump is "tapping into the American spirit".

Foxworthy has released five comedy albums for Warner Bros. Records, as well as one for DreamWorks Records. One of his albums included the novelty Christmas song "Redneck 12 Days of Christmas", which reached No. 18 on the Hot Country Songs charts in late 1995 to early 1996.

YearTitleRoleNotes1993Jeff Foxworthy: Check Your NeckHimselfTV special1993Banner TimeJeffTV movie1995A. J. 's Time TravelersThomas Jefferson"Thomas Jefferson"1995–1997The Jeff Foxworthy ShowHimselfseries regular (41 episodes)1996CybillLyle Clocum"Pal Zoey"1996Funniest Comedy DuosHimselfTV movie199623rd Annual AMA AwardsHimself (host)TV special1997The Larry Sanders ShowHimself"Larry's New Love"1997ESPY AwardsHimself (host)TV special1998Jeff Foxworthy: Totally CommittedHimselfTV special2000–2003 Scruff Peter2004Blue Collar Comedy Tour Rides AgainHimselfTV special2004–2006Blue Collar TVVarious charactersseries regular (45 episodes)2005Reno 911!Fast Eddie McClintock (voice)"Fastest Criminal in Reno"2005Extreme Makeover: Home EditionHimself"The Harper Family"2005Comedy Central Roast of Jeff FoxworthyHimselfTV special20052005 CMT Music AwardsHimself (host)TV special2006Blue Collar Comedy Tour: One for the RoadHimselfTV special2007American IdolHimself(Season 6) "Finale"2007–2015Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?Himself (host)series regular (111 episodes)2008Larry the Cable Guy's Star Studded Christmas ExtravaganzeHimselfTV special2009Comedy Central Roast of Larry the Cable GuyHimselfTV special2009BiographyHimself"Larry the Cable Guy"2010Blue Collar Comedy: Ten Years of FunnyHimselfTV movie2011Shark TankHimself (shark)2 episodes: "#2.4", "#2.7"2012Phineas and FerbSouthern Meap (voice)"Meapless in Seattle"2012The American Bible ChallengeHimself (host)series regular (27 episodes)2013Bounty HuntersJeffseries regular (13 episodes)2013The American Baking CompetitionHimself (host)5 episodes2016Jeff Foxworthy & Larry the Cable Guy: We've Been ThinkingHimselfTV special2018Jay Leno's GarageHimself"Down and Dirty"2019BiographyHimself"Jeff Foxworthy"2019Bring the FunnyHimself (judge)2 episodes2020Scooby Doo and Guess Who?Himself (voice)"The Wedding Witch of Wainsly Hall! "2020What's It Worth?Himself10 episodes2022The Good Old DaysHimselfNetflix Special

YearTitleNotes1993Jeff Foxworthy: Check Your NeckTV special1996Games Rednecks PlayShort Film1996–1997The Jeff Foxworthy Show3 episodes— "Before You Say 'No' Just Hear Me Out" (1996)— "One Wedding and a Baby" (1996)— "The Briarton Syndrom" (1997)1998Jeff Foxworthy: Totally CommittedTV special2000Bill Engvall's New All Stars of Country Comedy Vol. 1Direct to Video2003Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie2004Blue Collar Comedy Tour Rides AgainTV special2004–2006Blue Collar TVCreator (44 episodes)Writer (43 episodes)2005Ron White, Jeff Foxworthy & Bill Engvall: Live from Las Vegas!Direct to Video2006Blue Collar Comedy Tour: One for the RoadTV special2006Foxworthy's Big Night Out"Kenny Rogers"2012Them Idiots Whirled TourTV special