Country-fried comic Jeff Foxworthy is still successfully workin' his white-trash shtick. In the mid-'90s, the You Might Be a Redneck If... author had a self-titled Fox series, which lasted two seasons. Now, he's taking another shot at television in WB's Blue Collar TV (debuting tonight at 9:30 pm/ET).
The family-friendly sketchcom is based on Foxworthy's popular Blue Collar Comedy tour, which he did for about three years. He plans to keep his down-home flavor by shooting the show in his native Atlanta, rather than on a Los Angeles soundstage. "I was a little bit concerned about [doing TV] from the sitcom experience," he admits. "Initially, when I did it, I didn't have a lot of freedom to do what I wanted to do.
"[WB's execs] have been so great," he says. "I think they were the only network that understood what was going on on the Blue Collar tour. I love doing sketch. I thought I didn't like acting because I always had to be Je
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