Jeff Foxworthy
Comedian — born 1958
Jeff Foxworthy is a much loved and respected comedian noted for his work with the comedy troupe ‘The Blue Collar Comedy Tour’.
Jeff Foxworthy is an American comedian, actor, TV personality, and author whose four-decade career has produced multiple defining American Southern-comedy roles — particularly his "You Might Be a Redneck If..." stand-up-comedy persona and his 2007–2017 lead host role on Fox's family-game-show TV series Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?. He was born Jeffrey Marshall Foxworthy on September 6, 1958, in Atlanta, Georgia, into a working-class American Georgia family. His father Jimmy Abstance Foxworthy was an IBM technician, and his mother Carole Linda Foxworthy Camp was a homemaker.
His education at the Georgia Tech University (1976; without earning a degree, after a single year) launched his early-career path as an IBM mainframe-computer technician across 1976–1984. His 1984 first Atlanta Punchline-comedy-club open-mic-night performance launched his early-career American stand-up-comedy public profile.
His 1989 first commercial stand-up-comedy album You Might Be a Redneck If... — released by Warner Bros. Records — sold over three million American copies and produced his late-1980s and 1990s American Southern-comedy public profile. The "You Might Be a Redneck If..." stand-up-comedy persona produced multiple subsequent commercial-album releases — particularly the 1993 second commercial album You Might Be a Redneck If... II, the 1994 third commercial album You Might Be a Redneck If... III, and his subsequent multiple Foxworthy stand-up-comedy specials.
His 1995–1997 lead role as Jeff Foxworthy on the Foxworthy-produced ABC sitcom TV series The Jeff Foxworthy Show (which subsequently moved to NBC for the 1996–1997 second season) launched his late-1990s American TV-sitcom public profile. His February 27, 2007 first-broadcast appearance as the host of Fox's Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? — across which 11–13-year-old elementary-school children competed against adult contestants on grade-school-curriculum trivia questions — produced his late-2000s and 2010s American TV-game-show public profile. The Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? TV series ran for 153 episodes across six seasons (2007–2009 on Fox, plus the 2015–2017 syndicated revival). He has been with American homemaker Pamela Gregg since 1985 (married 1985), and the couple has two daughters.
His name Jeff is the English short form of Jeffrey (from the Old Germanic root meaning "peaceful pledge"). Jeff was a popular American boys' name through the mid-to-late 20th century.
About the name Jeff
Gender: Male · Origin: English
Peaceful. Variant Of Jeffrey.