Git-R-Done
We all knew Larry the Cable Guy’s act was played up, but…wow. This must be Lawrence the Casual Friday Man.
David Cross called it last year :
But you also specifically dumb down your speech while making hundreds of purposefully grammatical errors. How do I know this? It’s on page 17 of your book wherein you describe how you would “Larry” up your commentaries for radio. What does it mean to “Larry” something up? Take a wild guess. The reason you feel the need to “Larry” something up? Because you are not that dumb. I mean you, Dan Whitney, the guy who’s name the bank account is under. You were born and raised in Nebraska (hardly The South), went to private school and moved to Florida when you were 16. This is when you developed your accent?! Not exactly the developmental years are they? At age 16 that’s the kind of thing you have to make a concerted effort to adopt. Did you hire a voice coach? Or were you like one of those people who go to England for a week and come back sounding like an extra from “Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels”? As you said yourself in an interview once, “I can pop in and out of it pretty much whenever I want”. In your book on page 89 you say in reference to the “gee-shucks” millionaire comment, “…see, to his (David’s) mind, bein’ well paid means I’m no longer real and I can’t be a country boy anymore. It’s just an act.” Hey, it’s always been an act! That’s my fucking point! You admit it yourself so cut the indignation shit. And I am in no way deriding your work ethic. You clearly have more fart jokes than most and for that I applaud you.
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And if you really, truly want to respect your fans, lower your ticket price as well as the price of your ubiquitous merchandise. I’m sure all those hard-working Americans could use the extra money now that the budgets are being cut drastically from Transportation, Education, Health and Human Services, HUD, Dept of the Interior, EPA, Farm Service Agency, FEMA, Agricultural, FDA, VA, FDA, FHA, National Center for Environmental Health, and numerous other departments and agencies that they might directly rely on for help. All so that we can pay off this massive tax cut during “war” time that we’re all getting (them not so much though).
“I don’t care who you are, that’s funny.”
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He’s just a modern day “Dice” Clay. Every generation gets one to be ashamed of.
Comment by E-Rock — June 27, 2006 @ 12:24 pm
Since you mentioned David Cross, and I know how you feel about Arrested Development, I thought you would get a kick out of this story from CNN.com (sorry, not sure how to link). About Fox TV head Peter Ligouri and his search for new comedy shows:
“I think that something big is going to break out of the comedy genre very soon because we’ve been in a down cycle in comedy for so long,” Liguori says. “And I think there’s a feeling that politically and socially things are starting to get stirred up a bit” after a long period of post-September 11 uncertainty.
“We are encouraging the creative community to specifically, passionately and fervently express their points of view,” he says. “We want them to play out in a comedy forum some of these new wrinkles we’re seeing in our culture.”
It really makes you wonder if anyone at Fox ever actually WATCHED Arrested Development.
Comment by jsl — June 27, 2006 @ 4:04 pm
Fyi, Slate addressed Whitney’s idiot persona awhile back.
Comment by TS — June 28, 2006 @ 9:16 am
Not to put too fine a point on it, but this Slackjawed Yokel act is, of course, the same game played by a certain coke-sniffing blueblood Yale legacy. (”Heh heh. Heh. Want some wood?”) And even more importantly, the same Fake Cletus persona possesses nearly every GOP congresscreature who panders to the “pro-life” (and yet pro-war) Bible Belt Base.
(I say *nearly* every GOP congresscritter because there are a few of them who really are that fucking stupid.)
Comment by Cakesniffer — June 28, 2006 @ 1:32 pm
It’s Lawrence, Mom’s “Confirmed Bachelor” Cousin
Comment by John E Thelin — June 29, 2006 @ 4:19 am
healthy body
Comment by xd — July 1, 2006 @ 9:35 pm