Now that’s the way to git-r-done!
I have a Git-R-Done sticker in my cube… 
Well, if there’s anyone on the board to refute the OP, certainly here’s your man. Or maybe confirm it, I don’t know.
Cna anyone convey the long story about the sister with the moles?
trublmakr, I’m glad I’m not the only one. I am so ashamed to find him so sexy.
So that’s where that saying came from! All the attorneys in my office will shout it out as sort of a mantra when they leave for court in the mornings. I always thought it was funny, but never knew where they got it from.
Of course, they are public defenders…
On reflection, “mantra” wasn’t the word I was looking for. It’s more of a battle cry.
While Larry certainly isn’t in my list of top five comedians, I won’t change the channel when he’s on and I even get a good laugh occasionally.
When I watch him, I do get the weird mental image of him going back to the dressing room and going, [upper crust british accent]“My God! Ronald, Jeffrey, William; can you believe those plebeian cretins still find this nonsense somewhat humourous?!? Git-r-done, indeed.”[/ucba], all the while putting on his Armani suit.
Peace - DESK
Ironically you can set fire to said hat with a cigarette lighter that, when opened, says “Git’r’done”. They’re sold in every gas station here.
A friend who enlisted in the army a year ago says it’s the most overheard comment in his unit.
I change the channel when Larry comes on. His made-up stories (I hope they’re made up) just aren’t funny to me. The rest of the threee guys, yes, funny. I can tell they are telling anecdotes with natural comedy in them, and not outright making crap up.
Some amazing trivia, incidentally: Larry the Cable Guy was born in Pawnee, Nebraska and grew up in Andover, Massachusetts and Palm Beach, Florida. None of those places is what you’d call culturally southern. Larry the Cable Guy is totally a character played by Dan Whitney, whose real voice does not sound like that (though he does not give interviews as Dan Whitney).
As a performance artist (and yes, often as a comedian), the guy is brilliant.
I can stand him as one of the Four in the BCCT, but alone I can’t take him. His humour is scatological and crude, and I would much rather listen to Ron White tell stories about getting thrown out of a bar in New York City or how he is suing Sears or hitting a deer with a van.
Larry is my least favorite. Bill Engvall and Jeff Foxworthy are very funny, but if you held me down and shoved hot bamboo splinters underneath my fingernails, I’d have to pick Ron White to be marooned on a desert island with. But it’s pretty close.
Absofuckinglutely right. He so completely inhabits the character that people believe him to be the character. I haven’t seen a similarly accepted performance since Andy Kaufmann’s early forays as “foreign man.”
This is why I love the Dope - it really does fight ignorance. For instance, before reading the replies to the OP, I never realized how many posters on the boards had Down Syndrome.
That’s “Get R Down” Syndrome, you pompous neandertal.
Now that’s funny, I don’t care who - ooh, look, a shiny balloon!
I was at a dance club last week, and most of the partygoers were afflicted with this. It’s not a laughing matter. One guy broke a tooth trying to do ‘the worm’.
I’m well aware it’s contrived, as I stated in the OP, but somehow that only makes it worse. I would have no trouble laughing at an illiterate redneck - I do it all the time.
I’m going to email you the shipping address to replace my keyboard and monitor.
And yes, I’m going to hell for laughing at that. I couldn’t help it.
I’m sorry, but I consider myself a reasonably intelligent and reasonably cultured and reasonably funny person, and Larry the Cable Guy has had me double over laughing before and I don’t feel the least bit embarassed by it. HE’S FUNNY! I’m gayer than a satin goose and I even find some of his gay jokes funny ("Y’all wanna hear my impression of Elton John?’ Audience: YEAH!!! “He’s queer. That’s my impression” or “Grinning like Gomer Pyle with a wheelbarrow full of buttholes”- that there’s funny, I don’t care who you are). I totally understand why some people don’t find him funny- I’ll never understand Jerry Lewis’s appeal but I don’t think people who do are idiots, they just have different taste.
Elitism over tastes in pop culture pisses me off. I like what I like. And as an actor this guy is brilliant- I was floored when I found out he’s the northern reared son of a professor. I have known characters like him my entire life and he is just totally inhabiting them. Olivier couldn’t do as good a job of playing this guy- he never breaks character for a second, his accent is just frigging flawless for somebody who didn’t grow up in that environment, etc… I totally admit that GIT’ R’ DONE is one hell of an overused catchphrase, just like in the mid 80s I was willing to strangle the next person who said “You luke mahvelous!” and in the 90s if I’d heard one more person in my workplace imitate Rob Schneider’s “The copy-nator” guy I’d have heaved anchovies on them- it’s NOT CUTE ANYMORE! But for Larry himself, I don’t think he gets as much respect as he deserves from the people who take showers and stuff.
(Oh sorry, was that last bit classist? Well, we’ll edit it out before it goes to print.)
A little off topic. There’s a woman who does a routine like Foxworthy You might be a female redneck).
My favorite:
“If you can smoke a cigarette, drive a stick and breast-feed a baby at the same time, you might be a female redneck.”