Larry The Cable Guy Net Worth 2024

What is Larry The Cable Guy’s Net Worth and Salary?

Larry the Cable Guy is an American stand-up comedian and actor who has a net worth of $100 million. Larry the Cable Guy first turned well-known as one of many members of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour the place he established what would turn into his well-known “git-R-done” catchphrase. Larry has launched a number of comedy albums which have been licensed gold by the RIAA. He can be an actor, in all probability best-known for voicing Mater within the “Cars” franchise.

Endorsements Earnings

At the height of his profession and fame, Larry earned $70 million in a single yr, primarily by means of touring and endorsements. In years when he chooses to tour, Larry can simply earn $10 – $20 million from endorsements. He has earned tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} from a single endorsement, for the drug Prilosec.

Early Life

Daniel Lawrence Whitney, higher recognized by his stage title Larry the Cable Guy, was born in Pawnee City, Nebraska, on February 17, 1963, the place he was raised on a pig farm. His dad and mom are Tom Whitney, a guitarist, entertainer, and Christian minister, and Shirley Whitney. Larry attended The King’s Academy in West Palm Beach, Florida, for highschool, within the late Seventies, whereas he father was the principal of The King’s Academy’s elementary college. He then transferred to Berean Christian School in West Palm Beach in 1980, and graduated from there in 1982. He continued his schooling at Baptist University of America in Georgia, and the University of Nebraska—Lincoln, majoring in drama and speech. However, he dropped out of college after his junior yr to pursue a profession in comedy. He credit his college roommates from Texas and Georgia for uplifting his Southern accent impression, which later turned a central a part of his Cable Guy character.

Career

Larry really kicked his profession off with quite a few radio appearances within the early Nineteen Nineties. Some of the applications he appeared on embody the nationally syndicated “The Ron and Ron Show”, “The Bob and Tom Show”, “The Chris Baker Show” on KDGE, “The Todd and Tyler Show” on KEZO in Omaha, the “Kirk, Mark, and Lopez” morning present on WIYY in Maryland, and “The Johnny Dare Morning Show” on KQRC in Kansas City. He continued to make a reputation for himself, and began showing in an increasing number of exhibits across the nation, together with in Orlando, Florida. He additionally started doing two commentaries per week for WHEB 100.3 in New England, and WGIR-FM 101.1 in Portsmouth and Manchester, New Hampshire.

He developed his Larry the Cable Guy persona after solely attaining restricted success and recognition when performing stand-up below his actual title. The Cable Guy character has a thick Southern accent, sports activities a stereotypical redneck look, and has the signature catchphrase “Git-R-Done!” He talks about matters starting from family tales to jokes about his redneck “background,” and makes use of catchphrase humor. Some of his different catchphrases embody saying “Lord, I apologize, and be with the starvin’ Pygmies in New Guinea, Amen” after he tells jokes of questionable style; and “I do not care who ya are, that is humorous proper there” to get the viewers to snigger with him.

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Larry’s large break actually got here in 2000, when fellow comedian and good friend Jeff Foxworthy (the 2 met years earlier on Foxworthy’s radio present) invited Larry to hitch his “Blue Collar Comedy tour”. Rounding off the group with Larry and Foxworthy was comedian Bill Engvall. The tour turned a monster success. To high all of it off, when the tour was launched as a stay comedy DVD it offered over 1,000,000 copies. Larry adopted this success and newfound fame together with his first two comedy albums, “Lord, I Apologize” (2001) and “The Right to Bare Arms” (2005), which had been each large successes and have been licensed gold by the RIAA. He launched the autobiographical ebook “GIT-R-DONE” in 2005, which featured an introduction by fellow comedian and his shut private good friend, Lewis Black. Then, in 2006, Larry introduced the Cable man to cinemas throughout the nation with “Larry the Cable Guy: Health inspector”. A yr later, Larry appeared in “Witless Protection”. His third comedy album, “Morning Constitutions”, and its accompanying TV particular had been launched in 2007. He has additionally launched two Christmas albums, “A Very Larry Christmas” (2004) and “Christmastime in Larryland” (2007).

“Only in America with Larry the Cable Guy”, his travelogue collection on the History Channel, premiered on February 8, 2011, and attracted a complete of 4.1 million viewers. Of these viewers, 1.7 million had been a part of the adults aged 25-54 demographic. In the season two episode “Larry Goes to Washington”, Larry really turned the primary on-air expertise from a non-news crew in historical past to be allowed into the War Room (aka the Command Center). Larry has additionally branched out into appearing. He is the voice of the character Mater within the animated Pixar movies “Cars” (2006), “Cars 2” (2011), and “Cars 3” (2017). He has additionally appeared in films equivalent to “Delta Farces” (2007), “Witless Protection” (2008), “Tooth Fairy 2” (2012), “A Madea Christmas” (2013), and “Jingle All the Way 2” (2014). The stand-up particular “Larry the Cable Guy: Remain Seated” launched in 2020. Larry then made an look on “The Masked Singer” in 2021 and performed the function of an officer in an episode of “Yellowstone.” He returned to voice Mater within the Disney+ quick collection “Cars On The Road” in 2022.

Personal Life

Larry is a resident of Lincoln, Nebraska, the place he lives on a 180-acre farm together with his family. He married his spouse Cara in July 2005, and collectively they’ve two kids. His son, Wyatt, suffered from dysplasia as an toddler and was handled on the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children in Orlando, Florida. In September 2010, Larry donated $5 million to the hospital, for the additional growth of the International Hip Dysplasia Institute there. In addition to his personal donations, Larry has additionally raised cash for the hospital by means of appearances on recreation exhibits like “Family Feud” and “Are You Smarter Than a 5^th Grader?”. In May 2012, the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children opened a brand new wing, named the Wyatt Whitney Wing.

Real Estate

In May 2016, Larry paid $3.6 million for a house in Scottsdale, Arizona. He beforehand owned a house in Sanford, Florida, and nonetheless owns a property close to the place he grew up in Nebraska.