David Cross: Open Letter to Larry the Cable Guy

http://www.bobanddavid.com/david.asp?artId=183
Funny and insightful read!
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Thursday, December 01, 2005
AN OPEN LETTER TO LARRY THE CABLE GUY

Hi everybody!

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An open letter to Larry The Cable Guy:

Hello Larry,

It's me, David Cross. Recently I was shooting something for my friends at "Wonder Showzen" (the funniest, most subversive comedy on American T.V. at the moment) and when we were taking a break one of the guys on the show asked me if I had seen some article in something somewhere wherein you were interviewed to promote your new book "Please-Git-R-Done" (published by Crown Books $23.95 U.S.) and they asked about your devoting a chapter to slamming me and the "P.C. Left".

Since I stopped following your career shortly after you stopped going on stage wearing a tool belt with cable wrapped around your neck (around your appearance at "Laffs 'n' Food" in Enid, Oklahoma Aug 23-26 1999?) I said I wasn't aware of the article. They went on to tell me that you said basically (and I am not quoting but paraphrasing their recall) that I could kiss your ass, that I've never been to one of your shows (true) and that I didn't know your audience (untrue).

SO, I went and got your book, "Gitting-R-Donned", and excitedly skimmed past the joke about that one time you farted and something farty happened, on past the thing about the fat girl who farted and finally found it, < Media – 5>. Well, needless to say I farted. I farted up a fartstorm right there in the Flyin' J Travel Center. I fartingly bought the book and took it home with an excitement I haven't experienced since I got Bertha Chudfarter's Grandma drunk and she took her teeth out and blew me as I was finger banging her while wearing a Jesus sock puppet in the back of the boiler room at The Church of the Redeemer off I-20 (I don't care who you are, that's funny.)

Anyhoo, I got home and read the good parts. It seems that you were pissed off at Rolling Stone magazine, and I can understand why. You made some good points in your argument as well. I agree that there is an eliteism and bias in the press and too often a writer will include asides to show the readers how smart he or she is and how "above it" they are. But come on!. . .

Rest at:
http://www.bobanddavid.com/david.asp?artId=183

Hate me some "blue collar" TV.

Seriously, he's right. Bob Odekirk and David Cross (with several others including Patton Oswald) really know what is funny. The absurdity factor, the cheese factor, the blatantly obvious funny that you can't find unless you look really hard (or not hard at all with the right frame of mind.)

The Larry the Cable guy...Jesus this shit is just the epitome of Low Comedy. It's practically Carrot Top...

Go David!

He seems to be a southern version of Dennis Leary to me.

Of all of the 4 "Blue Collar" guys. I'd have to say he is the funniest.

I like the cigar smoking, whiskey-drinking thing, but it really is a straight-up comedy act and not a diverse kind of guy like Cross or the Odekirk bros.

when I thought Larry was kind of funny. I would hear him occasionally but that was long before the days after the selection. Everything now is just so mean and I don't find dumb all that amusing anymore. He was amusing then when things were better, not so much now.

Now David Cross is a totally different animal and I love him. Even when he is crossing lines this middle aged lady has problems with he still makes me laugh.

This was good. I always get excited when I see DC in something. He is AOK to me.

"And if you really, truly want to respect your fans, lower your ticket price as well as the price of your ubiquitous merchandise. I'm sure all those hard-working Americans could use the extra money now that the budgets are being cut drastically from Transportation, Education, Health and Human Services, HUD, Dept of the Interior, EPA, Farm Service Agency, FEMA, Agricultural, FDA, VA, FDA, FHA, National Center for Environmental Health, and numerous other departments and agencies that they might directly rely on for help. All so that we can pay off this massive tax cut during "war" time that we're all getting (them not so much though)."

to articulate perfectly how I feel about that dumb redneck shit.