Jeff Foxworthy Net Worth 2024

What is Jeff Foxworthy’s net worth and Salary?

Jeff Foxworthy is an American stand-up comedian and tv persona who has a net worth of $100 million. Jeff Foxworthy is known for his “you may be a redneck” jokes and is a member of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, a comedy troupe comprised of Bill Engvall, Larry the Cable Guy, and Ron White.

Early Life

Jeffrey Marshall Foxworthy was born on September 6, 1958, in Atlanta, Georgia to Carol and Jimmy Foxworthy. His father was an government at IBM. Foxworthy graduated from Hapeville High School and enrolled at Atlanta’s Georgia Institute of Technology, nonetheless, he dropped out simply earlier than graduating. For the subsequent 5 years, he labored in mainframe laptop upkeep at IBM alongside his father. He was all the time telling jokes at work, and his co-workers urged him to enter the Great Southeastern Laugh-off contest on the Punchline comedy membership in Atlanta. He entered in 1984, received the competition, and set off to pursue a profession in comedy.

Career

Foxworthy is maybe greatest identified for his 1993 hit “You Might Be a Redneck If,” which began an entire development of “You Might Be a Redneck” fad. Foxworthy’s 1993 album of the identical identify topped the charts. Foxworthy has launched six comedy albums and is the best-selling comedy recording artist of all time. Foxworthy’s “Games Rednecks Play” (1995) was nominated for the Best Spoken Comedy Album Grammy in 1996. “The Jeff Foxworthy Show” aired on ABC in 1995. It was canceled after one season. NBC picked up the present and aired an extra season of the sitcom earlier than additionally canceling it. The sequence aired in reruns in 2005 and 2006 on CMT and Nick at Night. In 1998, Foxworthy launched the album “Totally Committed.” There was additionally an HBO stand-up particular by the identical identify.

The Blue Collar Comedy Tour introduced new audiences to Foxworthy’s comedy within the early 2000s. Foxworthy, Larry the Cable Guy, Bill Engvall, and Ron White toured the nation for 3 years. Originally, the Blue Collar Comedy Tour was slated for simply 20 reveals, nevertheless it was so well-liked, that the tour lasted three years. In 2004, Foxworthy launched the tv sequence “Blue Collar TV” on the WB. Foxworthy, Larry the Cable Guy, and Engvall government produced the sequence. The present was canceled by the WB within the fall of 2005. CMT picked up “Blue Collar TV” in 2006 and it ran for an extra season.

Foxworthy was the topic of a Comedy Central Roast in 2005.

Foxworthy hosted the quiz present, “Are You Smarter Than a fifth Grader?.” The present ran for 4 seasons on Fox earlier than shifting to Nickelodeon. Foxworthy was changed as host by John Cena.

Foxworthy hosts and produces the sport present “The American Bible Challenge.” The present debuted in 2012 and has run for 3 seasons.

He additionally hosted the meals actuality competitors sequence “The American Baking Competition,” which aired for one season in the summertime of 2013. The present was an adaptation of “The Great British Bake Off.”

In February 2019, NBC introduced that Foxworthy was slated to be a choose for NBC’s comedy competitors sequence “Bring the Funny.” Any contestants — from solo comics to troupes –who could make audiences giggle could have a shot on the grand prize of $250,000.

In the summer time of 2020, Foxworthy introduced the launch of the “Are You Smarter Than a fifth Grader?” podcast. In 2022, his Netflix particular “Jeff Foxworthy: The Good Old Days” premiered.

Writing Career

Foxworthy has written a number of books, together with 1989’s “You Might Be a Redneck If…,” in addition to his 1996 autobiography, “No Shirt, No Shoes, No Problem!.” He additionally launched a cookbook entitled “The Redneck Grill” and “Redneck Extreme Mobile Home Makeover,” a guide with a few of his redneck jokes, each in 2005. Other books he is written embrace the three-book Jeff Foxworthy’s Redneck Dictionary sequence that was printed between 2005 and 2007. In February 2008, Foxworthy launched his first kids’s guide “Dirt On My Shirt.” This was adopted by two extra kids’s books in 2009 and 2010. He has additionally co-authored two books, 2008’s “How to Really Stink at Golf” and 2009’s “How to Really Stink at Work, A Guide to Making Yourself Fire-Proof While Having the Most Fun Possible” with Brian Hartt and illustrations by Layron DeJarnette.

Personal Life

Foxworthy met Pamela Gregg on the Punchline comedy membership in Atlanta. They married on September 18, 1985. They have two daughters, Jordan and Julianne.

Foxworthy’s upbringing influences his comedy. He has described his dad as having a “traditional redneck humorousness.” His dad and his Uncle Jimmy teamed as much as play a ventriloquist and his dummy.

Foxworthy broke his nostril whereas trying to leap from a shifting pickup truck right into a bale of hay when he was 17.

In plenty of interviews, Foxworthy has said that he got here up together with his “You Might Be a Redneck If…” act in response to somebody calling him a redneck.

In 2010, the web began circulating a rumor that Foxworthy’s daughter Jordan was useless. This was confirmed to be false. Jordan’s IMDB web page reveals she was an assistant on the film “Sully” in 2016 and appeared as herself in her father’s 2019 particular “Jeff Foxworthy: Stand Up Guy.”

In 2019, Foxworthy joked that his daughter Julianne, “traded her inheritance for her wedding ceremony.” On the one 12 months anniversary of Jules’ Foxworthy’s marriage, her father captioned a photograph from her wedding ceremony with the joke. Julianne married Brendan Corley in 2019.

In 2020, Foxworthy shaved his trademark mustache off for the primary time in 40 years. In a publish on his official Instagram account, he posted a photograph of his clean-shaven face and captioned it: “First time I’ve shaved my mustache in 40 years … clearly I’m bored in quarantine.”

Real Estate

Foxworthy and his family lived in a mansion in Alpharetta, Georgia, close to Atlanta. The house reportedly value a bit lower than $2 million. He listed this house in 2021 for $2.99 million and it offered after six months in the marketplace.