Help Me! WTF is Larry the Cable Guy?

[thebitterguy]

Okay, so, there's this movie called, well, Larry the Cable Guy. I'm pretty sure I missed out on his rise to fame entirely, so could someone explain his shtick to me. What IS his shtick? Just a guy who installs cable? "Hey, I've got exposed butt-crack and will show up at random despite the fact we had an appointment!"

Seriously, I'm stymied. H'ep me!

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[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

More than you ever wanted to know about LtCG (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_The_Cable_Guy).

Sadly, I have to admit that, living in the Orlando radio market, have heard of him long before he got any national exposure. While I enjoy redneck humour on rare occasion, after fifteen minutes or so, it gets really old.

"The Cable Guy" bit doesn't really have much involvement in his shtick any more. Back in the day (when he was part of WJRR's morning/afternoon shows) it was under the pretense of a cable guy, and he would supposedly be calling from people's houses that he was currently in, under the auspices of fixing their cable woes or installing cable in their house/office/building/whatever... and then he'd either do a diatribe or answer questions from the DJs or callers.

Really, rather not terribly funny. But, then, I'm hardly a fan of radio shows that do anything but play music.