1/21/2024 0 Comments Larry cable guy git r done![]() ![]() “It’s just a regular stand-up show,” he says. Whitney says despite the popularity of the new movie and the proximity to the holidays, his show at the Sands won’t be Christmas-themed. “I grew up in a small town in Nebraska, where there really wasn’t any,” he says. He said it was special because he shared the stage with REO Speedwagon and Richard Marx, who were on the first rock concert he ever attended, in 1986. Whitney did find time recently to perform in a benefit show that raised $300,000 for tornado victims in Indiana. It was ridiculous, and I think we told them after the fourth episode, ‘You guys have got to air this, like, weekdays, like 8 o’clock.’ So they came back and said, ‘We’re going to pull them all, do it all over again and re-air them, and we’re going to air them at 2 o’clock in the morning on Sunday,’ ” he says with a laugh. “I think the premiere for that show was at like 9 o’clock on a Saturday night. He said it failed to generate big audiences because it had bad time slots. He says he’s not sure whether there will be another season of “Bounty Hunters,” either. And chilling out and hanging with the family.” … So now I’m back to doing what I like – I like doing this. “I’m like, ‘I cannot handle this anymore.’ So I basically just said, ‘You know what? I’m pretty much done with that. “There was just so many things I was doing,” he says. ![]() Then I was doing live shows.” Whitney also was doing voices for “Bounty Hunters,” an animated Country Music Television show based on the Blue Collar Comedy Tour. “I was also still voicing stuff for Mater, ’cause Mater’s always got cartoons, toys and games. I’d get home on Sunday night, I’d leave Monday afternoon to do it all over again. Then the other half of the time I was hosting things on Sunday. On Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays I was taping ‘Only in America.’ I was doing a show on a Friday and a Saturday. At the time, I had a 5- and a 6-year-old they were just starting school. I did three seasons, but I was never home. “They were going to have me doing things a 50-year-old, out-of-shape guy shouldn’t be doing. “Well, about midway through the thing, they were going to kill me,” he says. But I can always say I did it.”Īctually Whitney says he ended the show because he was overworked. … That was one of the nastiest things on the planet. That’s one of the reasons I’m not doing the show anymore. “That’s right, I did!,” he says when reminded of the episode. One episode in 2012 brought him to Bethlehem’s Musikfest to clean porta-potties. On his show, “Only in America with Larry the Cable Guy,” which ran for three years on the History channel, he explores various jobs, lifestyles and hobbies. Larry the Cable guy’s popularity has given Whitney many such opportunities. It is just the coolest thing, so that when my kids have kids and their kids have kids, I mean, they’re going to go out there and that’s going to be their great grandpa.” “But when I go out to Disneyland, take the kids up to Cars Land, just knowing that I voiced a character that now has its own billion-dollar theme park is amazing. I never thought in a million years it would have turned out to be what it turned out to be. “Now I’m like, ‘Man, that it so awesome.’ I mean, not only did I get to voice a character from Pixar, but people really like it. “When I first did it, I had no idea,” he says. Whitney says he’s not surprised by Mater’s success – ” ’cause the guy that voices it is very talented” – but concedes its popularity is amazing. He’s essentially Larry the Cable Guy toned down for children. Perhaps his biggest role aside from Larry is as Mater, the lovable tow-truck in Disney’s animated “Cars” series. In fact, Whitney is listed that way in the movie’s credits.Įven when Whitney steps away from Larry the Cable Guy, it’s not very far. Whitney plays Buddy, the foil to Perry’s Medea, and his character is essentially Larry the Cable Guy. “And I’m like, ‘Yeah, awesome.’ So he was, like, a lot of fun. I just had an epiphany – Larry the Cable Guy meets Medea,'” Whitney says. “Tyler, he called me up and he said, ‘Hey, this will be hilarious. ![]()
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