@@GrantWaller.-hf6jn You mean the best game show ever? Also, I like how good Jeff is at poking fun without being mean. Steve Harvey could learn a lesson or two.
Jeff Foxworthy said that being a Redneck is a “glorious lack of sophistication”. It started as a negative term, but thanks to Foxworthy and others people own it.
If you think about it, Jeff was/is HUGE, and not a single word that you wouldn't want you child to hear. That's too rare these days. Bill Engvall is another.
I would not want to be called a "redneck".... I live in the South, and as far as I know, it's still pretty much an insult. Especially now with the maga cult....
It actually started from the coal miners striking in West Virginia, in the 1890's, because of the supporters wore a red handkerchief around their neck to show their support to the striking miners.
It actually started from the coal miners striking in West Virginia, in the 1890's, because of the supporters wore a red handkerchief around their neck to show their support to the striking miners.
@@davidcosta2244 I believe you have it backwards. The union boys wore the red scarf to identify as union miner’s. But you know more than a lot of people and are on track! Good post!
It was actually a term used to describe indentured servants who had to work the fields. Usually Irish or other Northern Europeans were 'Red Necks'. The term endured the same way as the common derogatory racial terms, usually by the target communities.
You need to checkout t the Blue Collar Comedy Tour that is Jeff Foxworthy with three of his comedian friends, Bill Engvall, Ron White, and Larry the Cable Guy each one did their own set.
Foxworthy has a lot of respect from comedians. Even hip intellectual comedians who might not typically like his style of comedy often appreciate him because he's such a pro and reliably kills with audiences. Seems to be a really nice guy too.
Last I knew ole Jeff was hosting a game show, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader. Fun Fact, the 1st time someone won 1 million dollars, the million $ question was "Who was the longest reigning British Monarch?"
The Clampett's going to Maui is a reference to a very popular American TV comedy that was on during the 1960's and early 70's called The Beverly Hillbillies. It was about a widower named Jed Clampett who was a hillbilly living in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri with his daughter and mother-in-law. They live the hillbilly lifestyle of hunting, fishing and moonshining. Oil is found on Jed's property and he becomes a millionaire overnight. The owner of the oil company convinces Jed to move to posh Beverly Hills with the other millionaires. The Clampett's (Jed, his daughter Elly May, his mother-in law Granny and his nephew Jethro) move to Beverly Hills but keep their old ways and values. For instance they drive an old broken down truck when they could easily buy a new car or they hang the washing out to dry when they have a dryer in their mansion. They set up a still by the pool which they call the cement pond. The humor comes from them trying to fit into Beverly Hills. Being from the part of the country they were from they were isolated and didn't experience or see many things that are found in Los Angeles. You should watch the show. It's on youtube
If you've ever had a hairdo destroyed by a ceiling fan, If you've ever been accused of lying through your tooth, if your richest relative bought a house and you had to help him take the wheels off.
If you ever stared at a can of orange juice because it said "concentrate" on the side. If you have ever been told you have something in your teeth and you take them out to see what it is.
I use a motorized wheelchair and when I moved to an apartment building with three floors. I had a friend who asked me if the building had an elevator. I just looked at her and said, nope, I just hauled this thing up three floors of stairs…Here’s your sigh!
You guys need to watch something called the Blue Collar Comedy Tour. It's 4 guys (Foxworthy is one) and they all have small blocks like this individually and at the end they are all on stage together. Comedy gold.
The term Red Neck originally came from country folks who worked out in the sun and wore T-shirts. When they took off their shirts that had a "red neck".
The term "redneck" in the early 20th century was occasionally used in reference to American coal miner union members who wore red bandanas for solidarity, think Union activists. (1920s) The term originally characterized farmers with a redneck caused by sunburn from long hours working in the fields. A citation from 1893 defines "poorer inhabitants of the rural districts ... men who work in the field, as a matter of course, generally have their skin stained red and burnt by the sun, and especially is this true of the back of their necks." In Scotland in the 1640s, the Covenanters rejected the rule of bishops, who often signed manifestos using their own blood. Some wore a red cloth around their neck to signify their position and were called rednecks by the Scottish ruling class to denote that they were the rebels in what came to be known as The Bishop's War that preceded the rise of Cromwell. Eventually, the term began to mean simply "Presbyterian", especially in communities along the Scottish border. Because of the large number of Scottish immigrants in the pre-revolutionary American South, some historians have suggested that this may be the origin of the term in the United States.
We were at a horse show and i heard my boys talking about "sofas" when i asked one of the boys about it, he said dad a sofa is a Southern Oregon Fat Ass.
This is kind of crazy, I remember being a kid listening to this comedy album on a cassette tape over 30 years ago. It's funny how old things become new again.
He lives near me, and when I went to see Ron White perform, Jeff showed up because they've been friends for a long time. He told a terrible story but of course made it hilarious - he got up in the middle of the night to investigate a noise, and as he walked down the stairs of his back porch, he did not see the baby Copperhead snake coiled up! Yep - he stepped on it. It's quite painful, but we have several hospitals nearby so he's fine. I can't imagine!! But he can turn ANYTHING into a funny story!!
The Clampetts' go to Maui" is a reference to the old tv show "The Beverly Hillbillies". You guys really need to watch "The Blue Collar Comedy Tour" movies. There's two of them, both hilarious.
Just a few references that you might not have gotten. Piggly Wiggly is a grocery chain in the Southeastern states. And K-Mart was a competitor to Walmart. They went out of business during the Great Recession back around 2010 or so. Igloo was a brand of portable coolers. It was big back in the 80s and 90s, but I'm not sure they're as popular now as they used to be.
As a matter of fact, the term Redneck originated in the UK. It's a reference to soldiers who served the king at the time, which these soldiers lived in very rural areas, and they wore a red kerchief around their necks
Jeff is definitely worth checking out. Many may not know this but he's the best selling comic of all time in terms of his albums and of course his books and comedy specials like the Bluecollar Comedy tour shows he did in the early 2000s with some of his comedy buddies like Bill Engvall which are hilarious.
"Redneck" was originally a derogatory used to refer to workers who would get a sunburn/tan on their necks from being outdoors as part of their work, e.g. farmers, construction workers, railroad workers, etc.
I found out when I was researching my Scottish and Scott's Irish ancestors who settled in the Appalachian Mountains in the early 1800s were descendants of Scott's from the 1640s in Scotland who were called REDNECKS. It was a term used to describe Presbyterian covenanters, who wore red scarves around their necks to identify themselves as a group or a clan in Scotland. Somehow Wikipedia has completely missed this information but it does come up on Google if you search hard enough. I'm sure there was another group from the south of England who also called themselves rednecks. I'm pretty sure this is in the 1700s and it had to do with where they worked what are the job they did but I can no longer find that information on the internet so I don't know if anybody knows it I'd love to know exactly where they were from. I want to say it was to do with working at a port somewhere but I could have that mixed up with something else.
James Webb mentions this in his book, “Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Changed America.” The Scots-Irish are the descendants of border Scots Presbyterians who settled in Ulster in the 1600s, then moved to the American colonies in the early 1700s. They became famous as pioneers and largely settled in Southern Appalachia. Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Andrew Jackson and Sam Houston were all Scots-Irish.
"Redneck" began as being derogatory- it meant someone who works outdoors in the sun (a red neck) as opposed to working indoors- sorts of a "smater not harder" kind of thing. BUT, as with most thing of that nature- it has become embraced by the "looked down upon" as a badge of honor much like being a "deplorable" more recently.
True family stories. My aunt (by marriage) lost her dentures at the bar. Went to visit her and she said she had her dentures when she went to the bar last night and woke up the next morning she “dont got no teeth”. Her husband (uncle by blood) once woke to find his car stolen. He called the police. When asked to describe the vehicle he points to the car in his yard and says, “that’s my parts car and dog house. It looks just like that but it has a plank of wood for a front bumper.” The car was found the next day. The dog was named “6 pack”. He walked to the store for a 6 pack of beer and it followed him home so he named the dog 6 pack. At one family gathering as a teenager a relative fresh out of prison for armed robbery decided he was going to give me sage wisdom. He told me, “boy, don’t do armed robbery. You wouldn’t like prison.” As a teenager,..what do you say to that coming from a guy fresh out of prison? “Thanks for the advice. I promise I won’t do armed robbery.”
Jeff Foxworthy was a very prominent comedian in America in the 1990's, and this was his signature act. He had a TV sitcom, he sold a number of comedy books, he was on TV performing pretty regularly. He was still pretty prominent in the 2000's as part of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour group, him and 3 other comedians with similar appeal to the working class ("Blue Collar" is US slang for the working-class), but he's not been seen as much in the media in recent years, probably because he's got really the one signature joke and it got old after a few decades.
1:32 lol james your not wrong it is used for someone that well hate certain kind of people, founded in the south but not always in the south. But Jeff use it as a term of endearment. He bust jokes on his family lol
FYI, Jeff's accent is a Georgia accent. So basically, the term is reserved for ignorant, uncouth, rural working poor and not to be confused with the "good ol' boy" or someone who is "just a little country."
There are a couple of possible origins for the term Redneck. One is that during strikes in the coal industry in the early 20th century, the striking miners wore red neckerchiefs as a show of solidarity. Another - the one I prefer - is that working in the fields under a hot sun gave farmers sunburned necks. This ties into another term, "Farmer's Tan", which refers to deep tan on the neck and arms but nowhere else (because everything else is covered from the sun). Like some other terms, it can be pejorative or not depending on who uses it and on the context.
The term "Redneck" is actually of English origin, applied to the inhabitants of the Hadrian's Wall region, long before the migration from this region to the western frontier of the American colonies.
"Scottish Presbyterians The term may have originated in Scotland during a religious war in the 1600s, when Protestant rebels wore red cloth around their necks to signify their rebellion. The term later evolved to describe any Scottish Presbyterian."
In West Virginia 1921, striking coal miners at the Battle of Blair Mountain used red bandanas around their necks to signify themselves from the opponents. The media dubbed them the Redneck Army, if I’m remembering my history right.
Just watching is what we come here for. Never worry about 'is it enough to be interesting?' Piggly Wiggly is a grocery chain in the south of the US. Basically like saying plastic Tesco bags and Styrofoam beer coolers as luggage. Igloo is the brand.
This was a very American reference but, a perfect illustration when you know it so, I have to explain it... "The Clampetts" are the main characters of a sitcom called The Beverly Hillbillies (there is also a movie). They are a comically cartoonish hillbilly family that even after they come into money still act like they live in the backwoods (they call a pool a "cement pond" 😆). So, when he says "this was the Clampetts go to Maui", you already know exactly where this story is going... 🤣 BTW: Another popular comedian who used to tour with Jeff Foxworthy that I think you guys would like is Bill Engvall. Similar to Foxworthy and his "You Might Be a Redneck" jokes, Bill Engvall was known for his "Here's Your Sign" jokes. So, definitely try looking up Bill Engvall "Here's Your Sign" sometime!
you should watch the "Blue Collar Comedy Tour" with Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall, Ron White, Larry the Cable Guy. awesome comedy show there's 2 or 3 of them but there all good just pick 1.
I swear my dad used to sheeze s9 hard I was afraid the car windscreen was going to blow out. And I used to work at a place where the manager would always sneeze three times in a row, every time. My coworker would sneeze twice everytime. I got an inferiority complex from only sneezing once.
Redneck can be derogatory towards country or southern people, but it has been embraced as a badge of honor by many that fit stereotypes... The word was derived from farm hands that worked in the sun all day, hunched over, causing sunburn on their necks.
"Like the Clampetts going to Hawaii" is from a TV show in the 1960's. The Beverly Hillbillies. You should definitely check it out. Poor country folk move to California after becoming millionaires when oil is discovered on their land Hilarious hijinks and culture clash television for 9 years. Very popular in it's time
So now y'all need to add Bill Engval to your reactions. He, Jeff Foxworthy, Larry the Cable Guy, and Ron White used to tour together doing something called The Blue Collar Comedy Tours. Bill is family friendly like Jeff. Ron and Larry? Not-so-much.
Jeff Foxworthy started his big break on Rodney Dangerfield's Young commedians special on HBO. Many comedians had git thei start from that shue like Jerry Seinfeld, Paul Riser, Sam Kinneson, Rita Rudner, and Elaine Bousler.
My favorite two are. If your family tree goes straight up and if you walk you r son to school and you are both in the same grade. Check out the Blue Comedy Tour Shows
Look for this video: Jeff Foxworthy with Alan Jackson - Redneck Games (Video). Jeff and Alan Jackson(Country Music Singer) made this hilarious Music Video together!!
I have never heard him pronounce an R in a word in the years I have been watching. I have also never heard wedneck before. lol Actually maybe Elmer Fudd did in a cartoon when I was a kid.
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In the 90s Jeff Foxworthy was THE Commedian. Back then, he sold millions of comedy albums. Had a sitcom on TV. He was huge!
Game show are you smarter then 5th grader.
@@GrantWaller.-hf6jn You mean the best game show ever?
Also, I like how good Jeff is at poking fun without being mean. Steve Harvey could learn a lesson or two.
So was Chris Rock, Bernie Mack, etc. Foxworthy was a big dog back then, but not "THE Comedian."
I may be wrong I think Kat Williams said he was the best selling comedian in the history of comedy. Which he did with a pretty clean act.
@@vwager that bit bought him a private jet to get to shows
‘Jiggle the handle” is for the loo that keeps running
Jeff Foxworthy said that being a Redneck is a “glorious lack of sophistication”. It started as a negative term, but thanks to Foxworthy and others people own it.
If you think about it, Jeff was/is HUGE, and not a single word that you wouldn't want you child to hear. That's too rare these days. Bill Engvall is another.
Man, I'm old. Old enough to have owned a Jeff Foxworthy tape from before he was family-friendly.
You need to hear his old live shows. Plenty in them you didn't want your kids to hear.
@@GamerKatz_1971 yup, Jeff has some blue stuff out there, and I ain't talking collar.
...here's your sign!
Jim Gaffigan too
Started as an insult to people who had to work in the sun bent over. Now people are proud of the term.. Real working class people
You might be a redneck if you spell education with a "J" and a "K'! 😆😆
I would not want to be called a "redneck".... I live in the South, and as far as I know, it's still pretty much an insult. Especially now with the maga cult....
It actually started from the coal miners striking in West Virginia, in the 1890's, because of the supporters wore a red handkerchief around their neck to show their support to the striking miners.
It actually started from the coal miners striking in West Virginia, in the 1890's, because of the supporters wore a red handkerchief around their neck to show their support to the striking miners.
@@davidcosta2244 I believe you have it backwards. The union boys wore the red scarf to identify as union miner’s. But you know more than a lot of people and are on track! Good post!
My favorite was "If you've ever had to move an engine block so your wife could take a bath".
explain that one to me😂
"If someone asks for your ID and you point to your belt buckle"
@@DDs878 Because dude is using the family bath tube to degrease the engine block he's working on.
@@SomeGuy-xf9bc Engine blocks in bathtubs, cams in the sink.
@@amicooke1790 It's perfectly logical... where the hell else ya gonna clean an engine block? The kitchen?
Redneck use to be a term describing a hard working farmer that was sunburned. It morphed in to a derogatory name for country folks.
Totally wrong,the first rednecks were older than the USA.The more common term is about yank miners wearing red bandanas.
Derogatory? That’s pretty debatable tbh
It was actually a term used to describe indentured servants who had to work the fields. Usually Irish or other Northern Europeans were 'Red Necks'. The term endured the same way as the common derogatory racial terms, usually by the target communities.
My favorite has been “If you bring a beer to a job interview…”.
And I always imagine that workplace is a trailer.
"But you don't share"
My favorite is "If you've ever been too drunk to fish"
Who brings one beer to a job interview? Gotta have a cooler cuz you're liable to do some fishing on the way home.
"If you've ever been accused of lying through your tooth"
The male box always cracks me up.
You need to checkout t the Blue Collar Comedy Tour that is Jeff Foxworthy with three of his comedian friends, Bill Engvall, Ron White, and Larry the Cable Guy each one did their own set.
You should also know that Larry the Cable Guy was one of the voices in the Disney movie Cars.
@thomasohanlon1060 Yes ! Do These .. Very funny comedy, and very popular 😊
@@tlyoung1420tow mater the tow truck!
i 100% agree
The first comedy tour was awesome!
Foxworthy has a lot of respect from comedians. Even hip intellectual comedians who might not typically like his style of comedy often appreciate him because he's such a pro and reliably kills with audiences. Seems to be a really nice guy too.
And really good with kids. Check out his interview with 7 Questions With Emmy.
Last I knew ole Jeff was hosting a game show, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader. Fun Fact, the 1st time someone won 1 million dollars, the million $ question was "Who was the longest reigning British Monarch?"
Oh Lord..I love Jeff Foxworthy and you put Larry the Cable Guy with him and you don't stand a chance. They are so funny together.🤣🤣😂🤣🤣🥰🥰
Git er dun!
He did the 12 days of Christmas song as a redneck song. It is funny. 😄
The Clampett's going to Maui is a reference to a very popular American TV comedy that was on during the 1960's and early 70's called The Beverly Hillbillies. It was about a widower named Jed Clampett who was a hillbilly living in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri with his daughter and mother-in-law. They live the hillbilly lifestyle of hunting, fishing and moonshining. Oil is found on Jed's property and he becomes a millionaire overnight. The owner of the oil company convinces Jed to move to posh Beverly Hills with the other millionaires. The Clampett's (Jed, his daughter Elly May, his mother-in law Granny and his nephew Jethro) move to Beverly Hills but keep their old ways and values. For instance they drive an old broken down truck when they could easily buy a new car or they hang the washing out to dry when they have a dryer in their mansion. They set up a still by the pool which they call the cement pond. The humor comes from them trying to fit into Beverly Hills. Being from the part of the country they were from they were isolated and didn't experience or see many things that are found in Los Angeles. You should watch the show. It's on youtube
You had to be an AMERICAN tv-watcher of the 60's to get the reference.
Jed thought he might have been cheated because they were going to pay him in a new kind of dollar. MILLION DOLLARS.
If you've ever had a hairdo destroyed by a ceiling fan, If you've ever been accused of lying through your tooth, if your richest relative bought a house and you had to help him take the wheels off.
If your mother doesn't even take the Marlboro from between her lips before telling the state trooper to kiss her ass...?
If you ever stared at a can of orange juice because it said "concentrate" on the side.
If you have ever been told you have something in your teeth and you take them out to see what it is.
“Here’s your sign…”
I use a motorized wheelchair and when I moved to an apartment building with three floors. I had a friend who asked me if the building had an elevator. I just looked at her and said, nope, I just hauled this thing up three floors of stairs…Here’s your sigh!
Bill Engvall is the "Here's your sign" guy.
@ yeah. They just remind me of each other.
Happy Almost New Year everyone
Happy New Year to almost everyone!
Once upon a time, my supervisor was a good old boy who went noodling for catfish in the Cimmaron river (low water level). That is Red Neck ;-)
You should probably explain that noodling is catching the fish in mudholes with your bare hands!
You guys need to watch something called the Blue Collar Comedy Tour. It's 4 guys (Foxworthy is one) and they all have small blocks like this individually and at the end they are all on stage together. Comedy gold.
Ron White - Tater Salad . . . coo-pins!!! (for those who know) 🤣
“I had the right to remain silent, but not the ability.”
Don't forget his son, "Tater-Tot!"
The term Red Neck originally came from country folks who worked out in the sun and wore T-shirts. When they took off their shirts that had a "red neck".
The term "redneck" in the early 20th century was occasionally used in reference to American coal miner union members who wore red bandanas for solidarity, think Union activists. (1920s)
The term originally characterized farmers with a redneck caused by sunburn from long hours working in the fields. A citation from 1893 defines "poorer inhabitants of the rural districts ... men who work in the field, as a matter of course, generally have their skin stained red and burnt by the sun, and especially is this true of the back of their necks."
In Scotland in the 1640s, the Covenanters rejected the rule of bishops, who often signed manifestos using their own blood. Some wore a red cloth around their neck to signify their position and were called rednecks by the Scottish ruling class to denote that they were the rebels in what came to be known as The Bishop's War that preceded the rise of Cromwell.
Eventually, the term began to mean simply "Presbyterian", especially in communities along the Scottish border. Because of the large number of Scottish immigrants in the pre-revolutionary American South, some historians have suggested that this may be the origin of the term in the United States.
Thats bullshit...rednecks were union coal miners who rose up against scabs
A qtip is not an ear bud. It’s a cotton swab used to clean your ears.😂
You know ear bud is probably what they call quips in the UK....not necessarily the music buds
She knew what it meant. That's just their way of describing it.
@@tosweet68 she actually said ear buds though.
Just a bit of clarification. Qtip is a brand name. The common name, in the USA, is actually cotton swab.
@lisaevansthefam2425 yes....because that is probably what they call them in the UK
We were at a horse show and i heard my boys talking about "sofas" when i asked one of the boys about it, he said dad a sofa is a Southern Oregon Fat Ass.
Only way squirrel works is if you know someone who’s nickname is squirrel or someone’s dinner is squirrel.
I was going through the comments before saying: To be fair, if you’ve eaten squirrel, you might be a redneck.
Which I have, though I’m not.
This is kind of crazy, I remember being a kid listening to this comedy album on a cassette tape over 30 years ago. It's funny how old things become new again.
Yup
Millie, the makeup and nails look great.
He lives near me, and when I went to see Ron White perform, Jeff showed up because they've been friends for a long time. He told a terrible story but of course made it hilarious - he got up in the middle of the night to investigate a noise, and as he walked down the stairs of his back porch, he did not see the baby Copperhead snake coiled up! Yep - he stepped on it. It's quite painful, but we have several hospitals nearby so he's fine. I can't imagine!! But he can turn ANYTHING into a funny story!!
The Clampetts' go to Maui" is a reference to the old tv show "The Beverly Hillbillies".
You guys really need to watch "The Blue Collar Comedy Tour" movies. There's two of them, both hilarious.
Just a few references that you might not have gotten. Piggly Wiggly is a grocery chain in the Southeastern states. And K-Mart was a competitor to Walmart. They went out of business during the Great Recession back around 2010 or so. Igloo was a brand of portable coolers. It was big back in the 80s and 90s, but I'm not sure they're as popular now as they used to be.
Igloo has become a generic term, like Levi's, Black and Decker, Frigidaire, etc.
Our KMart made it to 2020. Last one in NH.
You should watch the Blue Collar comedy tour. It is hilarious.
Red Neck cand be both a bad thing and also something to be proud of! Google the history!
As a matter of fact, the term Redneck originated in the UK. It's a reference to soldiers who served the king at the time, which these soldiers lived in very rural areas, and they wore a red kerchief around their necks
I hope you guys had a wonderful Christmas and are having a great New Years. ❤🎉
Jeff is definitely worth checking out. Many may not know this but he's the best selling comic of all time in terms of his albums and of course his books and comedy specials like the Bluecollar Comedy tour shows he did in the early 2000s with some of his comedy buddies like Bill Engvall which are hilarious.
"Redneck" was originally a derogatory used to refer to workers who would get a sunburn/tan on their necks from being outdoors as part of their work, e.g. farmers, construction workers, railroad workers, etc.
Have you ever been too drunk to fish?
Does your family tree have branches?
Word to the wise. Do NOT try to take a drink of your drink while watching Jeff Foxworthy 😂
Unless, of course, your companions want a free, unexpected shower.
you have to check out bill Engvall if you like Jeff Foxworthy
check out, Bill Engvall tries marijuana. It's a 2 parter
This is about people making fun of themselves.
Happy New Year everyone
I found out when I was researching my Scottish and Scott's Irish ancestors who settled in the Appalachian Mountains in the early 1800s were descendants of Scott's from the 1640s in Scotland who were called REDNECKS. It was a term used to describe Presbyterian covenanters, who wore red scarves around their necks to identify themselves as a group or a clan in Scotland. Somehow Wikipedia has completely missed this information but it does come up on Google if you search hard enough. I'm sure there was another group from the south of England who also called themselves rednecks. I'm pretty sure this is in the 1700s and it had to do with where they worked what are the job they did but I can no longer find that information on the internet so I don't know if anybody knows it I'd love to know exactly where they were from. I want to say it was to do with working at a port somewhere but I could have that mixed up with something else.
James Webb mentions this in his book, “Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Changed America.” The Scots-Irish are the descendants of border Scots Presbyterians who settled in Ulster in the 1600s, then moved to the American colonies in the early 1700s. They became famous as pioneers and largely settled in Southern Appalachia. Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Andrew Jackson and Sam Houston were all Scots-Irish.
"Redneck" began as being derogatory- it meant someone who works outdoors in the sun (a red neck) as opposed to working indoors- sorts of a "smater not harder" kind of thing. BUT, as with most thing of that nature- it has become embraced by the "looked down upon" as a badge of honor much like being a "deplorable" more recently.
Except there’s nothing inherently wrong or anti-American about being a redneck.
True family stories. My aunt (by marriage) lost her dentures at the bar. Went to visit her and she said she had her dentures when she went to the bar last night and woke up the next morning she “dont got no teeth”. Her husband (uncle by blood) once woke to find his car stolen. He called the police. When asked to describe the vehicle he points to the car in his yard and says, “that’s my parts car and dog house. It looks just like that but it has a plank of wood for a front bumper.” The car was found the next day. The dog was named “6 pack”. He walked to the store for a 6 pack of beer and it followed him home so he named the dog 6 pack. At one family gathering as a teenager a relative fresh out of prison for armed robbery decided he was going to give me sage wisdom. He told me, “boy, don’t do armed robbery. You wouldn’t like prison.” As a teenager,..what do you say to that coming from a guy fresh out of prison? “Thanks for the advice. I promise I won’t do armed robbery.”
Redneck originally referred to agriculture workers who spent long hours outdoors. It evolved to generally mean an unsophisticated person.
Love these!!!!
Jeff Foxworthy was a very prominent comedian in America in the 1990's, and this was his signature act. He had a TV sitcom, he sold a number of comedy books, he was on TV performing pretty regularly.
He was still pretty prominent in the 2000's as part of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour group, him and 3 other comedians with similar appeal to the working class ("Blue Collar" is US slang for the working-class), but he's not been seen as much in the media in recent years, probably because he's got really the one signature joke and it got old after a few decades.
I’ve been a subscriber since James did videos by himself! Yall are awesome!😊
One story of the origin of "red neck" says the miners involved in the Battle of Blair Mountain wore red handkerchiefs around their necks.
This is just a scratch on the surface of his work! 30 years of stand up! Gotta react to more of him plus blue collar comedy tour
1:32 lol james your not wrong it is used for someone that well hate certain kind of people, founded in the south but not always in the south. But Jeff use it as a term of endearment. He bust jokes on his family lol
In Jeff’s own words… Redneck is “the glorious absence of sophistication”.
You guys would love him and the others on The Blue Comedy Tour
FYI, Jeff's accent is a Georgia accent. So basically, the term is reserved for ignorant, uncouth, rural working poor and not to be confused with the "good ol' boy" or someone who is "just a little country."
Red Necks come from all over the Country! 🙏✝️❤️🇺🇸
You guys, with mum, need to watch the full movie “ Blue Collar Comedy Tour”. 🔥🔥
There are a couple of possible origins for the term Redneck. One is that during strikes in the coal industry in the early 20th century, the striking miners wore red neckerchiefs as a show of solidarity. Another - the one I prefer - is that working in the fields under a hot sun gave farmers sunburned necks. This ties into another term, "Farmer's Tan", which refers to deep tan on the neck and arms but nowhere else (because everything else is covered from the sun).
Like some other terms, it can be pejorative or not depending on who uses it and on the context.
The Blue Collar comedy tour was and always will be an American comedy gem! ❤
Actual Term Meaning is a Person Who Worked the Coal Mines that Wore Red Bandanas around the neck to Show Union Solidarity Originally.
Classic Foxworthy! Makes me laugh til my side hurts. Definitely check out more Foxworthy.
Bill Engvall had the best where he says all stupid people should have to wear a sign so you know not to bother them.
Jeff is a legend!
The term "Redneck" is actually of English origin, applied to the inhabitants of the Hadrian's Wall region, long before the migration from this region to the western frontier of the American colonies.
I might suggest the Blue collar comedy tour, with Jeff Foxworthy, Ron Whyte, Bill Engvall and Larry the Cable guy. It’s a good laugh.😂
This and Bill Engvall's Here's Your Sign are my two favorite lists of stuff.
"Scottish Presbyterians
The term may have originated in Scotland during a religious war in the 1600s, when Protestant rebels wore red cloth around their necks to signify their rebellion. The term later evolved to describe any Scottish Presbyterian."
In West Virginia 1921, striking coal miners at the Battle of Blair Mountain used red bandanas around their necks to signify themselves from the opponents. The media dubbed them the Redneck Army, if I’m remembering my history right.
Possibly the only "PG" rated comic in America. I guess why i dont have any more Sirius satellite or comedy channel cable now
Just watching is what we come here for. Never worry about 'is it enough to be interesting?'
Piggly Wiggly is a grocery chain in the south of the US. Basically like saying plastic Tesco bags and Styrofoam beer coolers as luggage. Igloo is the brand.
Refers to an unskilled white laborer toiling in the sun where the back of his neck is red from excessive sun exposure.
Squirrel ? Their delicious, and we hunt them to eat. So she is not wrong about the connection.
This was a very American reference but, a perfect illustration when you know it so, I have to explain it... "The Clampetts" are the main characters of a sitcom called The Beverly Hillbillies (there is also a movie). They are a comically cartoonish hillbilly family that even after they come into money still act like they live in the backwoods (they call a pool a "cement pond" 😆). So, when he says "this was the Clampetts go to Maui", you already know exactly where this story is going... 🤣
BTW: Another popular comedian who used to tour with Jeff Foxworthy that I think you guys would like is Bill Engvall. Similar to Foxworthy and his "You Might Be a Redneck" jokes, Bill Engvall was known for his "Here's Your Sign" jokes. So, definitely try looking up Bill Engvall "Here's Your Sign" sometime!
you should watch the "Blue Collar Comedy Tour" with Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall, Ron White, Larry the Cable Guy. awesome comedy show there's 2 or 3 of them but there all good just pick 1.
Yep an now there's Dusty Slay as well.
I swear my dad used to sheeze s9 hard I was afraid the car windscreen was going to blow out. And I used to work at a place where the manager would always sneeze three times in a row, every time. My coworker would sneeze twice everytime. I got an inferiority complex from only sneezing once.
Lol...gotta love America!! 😂
You clean your air with a Q-tip, a key to use is common!
You should listen to one of his whole videos
Q-Tip is the brand name for a cotton swab.
Redneck can be derogatory towards country or southern people, but it has been embraced as a badge of honor by many that fit stereotypes... The word was derived from farm hands that worked in the sun all day, hunched over, causing sunburn on their necks.
"Like the Clampetts going to Hawaii" is from a TV show in the 1960's. The Beverly Hillbillies.
You should definitely check it out.
Poor country folk move to California after becoming millionaires when oil is discovered on their land
Hilarious hijinks and culture clash television for 9 years. Very popular in it's time
My mom has a sneeze that would put a man to shame.
So now y'all need to add Bill Engval to your reactions. He, Jeff Foxworthy, Larry the Cable Guy, and Ron White used to tour together doing something called The Blue Collar Comedy Tours. Bill is family friendly like Jeff. Ron and Larry? Not-so-much.
Jeff Foxworthy started his big break on Rodney Dangerfield's Young commedians special on HBO. Many comedians had git thei start from that shue like Jerry Seinfeld, Paul Riser, Sam Kinneson, Rita Rudner, and Elaine Bousler.
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My favorite two are. If your family tree goes straight up and if you walk you r son to school and you are both in the same grade. Check out the Blue Comedy Tour Shows
Red neck comes from the red handkerchiefs people wore on their necks in solidarity for coal miners kidded during the strike at Blair Mountain, WV.
I'm from East Texas ❤u guys
He has at least 3 editions of the Redneck Dictionary out.
Piggly Wiggly is a grocery store chain.
She seems to have a problem. Understanding these jokes. William s
Look for this video: Jeff Foxworthy with Alan Jackson - Redneck Games (Video). Jeff and Alan Jackson(Country Music Singer) made this hilarious Music Video together!!
Definitely check out Jeff Foxworthy and his friends on the Blue Collar Comedy Tour. 🎤🎤
I don't believe there is a true definition of "redneck", its just something you know when you see it. lol
Redneck.
Is a farmer sunburn
I got six cars to go.
I have never heard him pronounce an R in a word in the years I have been watching. I have also never heard wedneck before. lol Actually maybe Elmer Fudd did in a cartoon when I was a kid.
I have a copy of the original book from Dallas Improv he signed for me and my sister.
You guys should check out the Red Green show.
Now you need to find out the meaning of " leather neck."
Jeff Foxworthy has said the a Redneck has "a glorious lack of sophistication!"
“Single people throw the best parties…”
8:27 wooow I feel good. 😅😅