Jeff Foxworthy Biography

Fast Facts

• In 2011, he advocated for the Salvation Army's Home Sweet Home Program for homeless families
• Received the 1990 American Comedy Award for Funniest Male Stand-Up Comic
• Worked in computer maintenance at IBM before entering a career in entertainment
• In 1984, he won the Great Southeastern Laugh-off contest at Atlanta's Punchline comedy club
• Quote: "(On his family being poor) "I think we finally all got together and went, 'You know what? We like being this way․'""
• Quote: "If you break into my house, I will shoot you․ My wife will shoot you and then spend thirty minutes telling you why she shot you․"
• Widely recognized for his "blue-collar" comical approach to stand-up
• Is close friends with fellow "blue-collar" comic Bill Engvall
• Opened his own chain of barbeque restaurants in 1998
• Attended the Georgia Institute of Technology, but left the school in 1979