Jeff Foxworthy: Quotes, Early Life, Career, Personal Life, Discography, and a List of Books by Author Jeff Foxworthy

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"Changing a diaper is a lot like getting a present from your grandmother - you're not sure what you've got but you're pretty sure you're not going to like it." -- Jeff Foxworthy

Jeffrey Marvin "Jeff" Foxworthy (born September 6, 1958) is an American stand-up and television personality. As the best-selling comedy recording artist of all time, he is a member of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, a comedy troupe which also comprises Larry the Cable Guy, Bill Engvall and 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 3×multi-Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. Foxworthy has also 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, first in the mid-1990s as the star of a sitcom called, The Jeff Foxworthy Show. He has also appeared alongside Engvall and Larry the Cable Guy in several Blue Collar television specials, most notably Blue Collar TV. Since 2007, he has been the host of the quiz show Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? on Fox (2007-09) and syndication (2009-present). Foxworthy hosted a nationally syndicated radio show called The Foxworthy Countdown from April 1999 to December 2009.

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"Being a comedian, people tell me stuff they shouldn't tell their therapist.""Between New York and LA, there's 200 million people that aren't hip, and they don't want to be hip.""Did you know babies are nauseated by the smell of a clean shirt?""Find something in life that you love doing. If you make a lot of money, that's a bonus, and if you don't, you still won't hate going to work.""For the first time ever I was taking the family on the road. We stayed with my in-laws, which on life's list of experiences ranks right below sitting in a tub full of scissors.""Have you ever seen people so ugly that you have to get someone else to verify it?""I had to perform at the White House for the president, That's always kind of a weird set to try to put together.""I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.""I know God is real.""I know if mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.""I really don't require a whole lot in life.""I refuse to this day to do e-mail because everybody I know that does it, it takes another two or three hours a day. I don't want to give two or three more hours away.""I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument.""I tried real hard to play golf, and I was so bad at it they would have to check me for ticks at the end of the round because I'd spent about half the day in the woods.""I turned down a movie this summer because it was nine weeks in Vancouver and my oldest daughter is 14. I've got four more summers with her. I'm not giving away nine weeks of her summer to go do a silly movie.""I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points.""I've been to all 50 states, and traveled this whole country, and 90 percent of the people are good folks. The rest of them take after the other side of the family.""If men have a smell it's usually an accident.""If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'""If you have a complete set of salad bowls and they all say Kool Whip on the side, you might be a redneck.""If you own a home with wheels on it and several cars without, you just might be a redneck.""If you've ever made change in the offering plate, you might be a redneck.""If your neighbors think you're a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a redneck.""If your working television sits on top of your non-working television, you might be a redneck.""It's a weird sensation to be mad and learning at the same time.""It's hard to think of yourself as a loser at 2 years old.""Little girls love dolls. They just don't love doll clothes. We've got four thousand dolls and ain't one of them got a stitch of clothes on.""My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this.""My wife is so analytical with raising kids, and I am not. My feeling is if they turn out good, then that means I was a good daddy and put a lot of effort into it. If they turn out bad, it means they took after her side of the family.""Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.""Now, it's true I married my wife for her looks... but not the ones she's been givin' me lately.""People would say, Can we develop a sitcom around you? and I would say, Not interested. I'm very happy doing standup and writing and taking my kids to school.""Pride is the first step in people unraveling and companies unraveling and relationships unraveling.""That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring.""The designated driver program, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, drop them off at the wrong house.""The more excited the rooster gets, the higher his voice goes. He's got a little bit of a Barney Fife quality to him.""The stuff that made me mad 20 years ago doesn't really make me mad any more.""There's no down time any more.""Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door.""What I hated was doing what somebody in LA thought Jeff Foxworthy ought to do.""When you get to your third millionth frequent flyer mile, I think something snaps in your brain.""You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.""You may be a redneck if... your lifetime goal is to own a fireworks stand.""You might be a redneck if... the blue book value of your truck goes up and down depending on how much gas it has in it.""You moon the wrong person at an office party and suddenly you're not 'professional' any more."