Larry The Cable Guy Net Worth

Larry The Cable Guy's Quotes

• I've always felt that if you've been blessed, you should try to help as many people as you can. I just think that's the right thing to do.
• I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.
• I'm saying, Come on, the global warming thing? How did the ice melt during the ice ages? Was the dinosaurs driving SUVs around back then?
• I'm not a party guy, and I'm not a Hollywood guy, either.
• Every July, I look forward to taping a Christmas show - in July in Nashville. In 98-degree weather. I love it.

Interesting Facts about Larry The Cable Guy

1. He is a member of the Blue Collar Comedy group, a group of "rednecks" who do stand-up and sketch comedy, together. The other members are his friends: Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall and Ron White.
2. Is expecting first child with wife Cara Whitney, due August 2006. If it's a girl, they plan on naming the baby Reagan (he says because Ronald Reagan was the greatest president, ever), or Colton if it's a boy, because he says it's a good cowboy name and he likes cowboys.
3. His favorite comedians are Steve Martin, Don Rickles, Milton Berle, and Henny Youngman. He had met Henny Youngman. Larry says that he's in the comedy business because of those guys, and a friend named Nick Di Paolo, who used to do stuff on Comedy Central.
4. Larry is a huge University of Nebraska fan (mostly football). Although he's lived in Florida for 27 years, he still calls Nebraska home. His accent is a combination of Pawnee City, NE, and his current home near Orlando, FL. He's lived there since he was 16. He's bought a second home south of Lincoln, watches as many games as he can, and recently bought one of the new (2006) sky boxes in the North end-zone. He also tries to wear some article of clothing (usually a hat) that says "Nebraska" or "Huskers" during every performance.
5. One of his closest friends is fellow comic Lewis Black, who is pretty much his opposite when it comes to political views, background, and performance material.
6. While Larry's stand-up act contains a great deal of raunchy material he does not use four-letter words.
7. Well before hitting it big with the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, he contributed short, daily commentaries for the rock station 101.1 WJRR, which broadcasts out of Maitland, Florida. He also had put in a short stint with another Orlando-area rock station (100.3 WDIZ) before they abruptly changed formats, prior to his work with WJRR.
8. Daughter, Reagan, born 29 October 2007.
9. Son, Wyatt, born August 2006.
10. In 2007, Forbes Magazine estimated his earnings for the year at $20 million.
11. Son of Tom Whitney and Shirley Whitney.
12. Dr. Chad Price at Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children in Orlando, Florida helped cure Larry's son, Wyatt, of hip dysplasia, while Wyatt was an infant. Following this, Larry and his Git-R-Done foundation donated $5 million to the International Hip Dysplasia Institute at the hospital in September, 2010.