 
Hey, wanna hear some comedy? Check this out: "You know what I did find out though.this made me happier than the Pillsbury Queerboy frosting up some hot buttcakes, I tell 'ya. Hooters’ got an airline now. They fly into Atlanta, Georgia.I got 8,000 frequent bones miles on there already." Or how about this one about reality shows: "'Queer Eye For The Straight Guy'. There’s another one. They better not try to dress me up. There'll be a new show out next week called 'Black Eye On The Queer Guy'". More? "It's good to see all kinds of -- what the hell? Heh. Those are my shadows behind me, those scare me.heh, heh. Thought a couple of black guys were trying to sneak up on me.did you see that? Heh, heh. That scared the hell outta me. haw Haw HAW! If you don't think that's funny, you get the hell outta here. That's funny right there." This is material off of the most successful comedy record since Steve Martin's 1978 Wild And Crazy Guy. "Larry The Cable Guy" is Dan Whitney who grew up in Nebraska before his family moved to Florida when he was sixteen. He did nineteen years of stand-up and right wing political commentary for radio before he discovered the character Cable Guy character after calling in to local Tampa radio stations. For some reason he is trying to be the red state's Chris Rock, Margaret Chow and David Cross all rolled into one. Of course there's more than just anti-gay, anti-foreigner, racist jokes here. Basically this is the easiest, non-challenging comedy CD available. Until Jeff Foxworthy release another one. Yep, fifty-six minutes of easy fat jokes, easy poop jokes, easy midget jokes, east Michael Jackson jokes, easy sex jokes, easy retarded kid jokes, easy stupid women jokes all delivered in nasally, overdone Southern drawl. This particular Houston audience eats it up leaving little doubt that, while goose-stepping back to their 4x4's after the show, they're clamping themselves on the back, guffawing, quite certain that another victory had just been won for the little guys. But they ain't the little guys anymore and haven't for years now. Well, the jokes on me I guess, because this thing recently climbed as high as #7 on the Billboard's Top 100 albums. When Larry claims early on in The Right To Bare Arms that this show will be "the dumbest you ever saw" he not only relieves himself of any originality but also responsibility for his own material; it's a cop out. Cheap shot after cheap shot as Whitney hides behind a character in order to voice his boring idealism. The difference between left-wingers telling offensive jokes and a right-wingers telling offensive jokes is you run a better chance that the right winger will act them out.if they haven't already. He's talking from experience. Larry The Cable Guy doesn't like Hollywood either by the way, despite having to live there while he tapes a program called Blue Collar TV: "All them rich, white, uptight, Hollywood tofu fartin' fairies. I’m sick 'n tired of them." But despite being against all things PC he doesn't drop any f-bombs or take the Lord's name in vain.which seems to be a bit of a contradiction. The whole IDEA of political correctness has been twisted inside out and reversed now that we're chin deep in the Bush Administration. Over half the country is down with that whole country-boy/girl "aw-shucks, I'm-just-an-average-guy/girl" routine and it's these folks who are now making the rules. Therefore wouldn't it be the ultimate in anti-political correctness to take the Lord's name in vain? Coward. Anyone who has grown up in or around rural areas (be it the Midwest, the South and, or even, yes it's true, California) or anyone who has had any contact with rednecks and doesn't support their ideals can tell you that stuff was is never funny, it just sucks. Even when rock bands try to be fashionably ironic (from Tad in the early 90's to Nashville Pussy) it's disconcerting. There is always a prevailing undercurrent of evil to the whole redneck image that is impossible to escape. Therefore, The Right To Bare Arms isn't much of a comedy CD. It's a boring, macho, ego trip and I find it hard to believe that anyone with conservative leanings could find this anything more than "cute". In the end, Larry the Cable Guy drowns in his own half witted contradictions when he complains about the people who mock NASCAR: "If you don't understand a sport, don't talk about it, know what I mean?" No shit, Sherlock. - Andrew Lau
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Larry The Cable Guy