(Don’t you find this to be a somewhat racist sort of humor? Never mind, enjoy yourselves.)
I was about to post that none of these made me so much as smile, but then this one did.
mmm
I think it is more of a class thing for the American south. A similar theme is the joke about “the difference between ‘good ole boys’ and ‘rednecks’” is that, after a fishing outing, “good ole boys” throw their empty beer cans into the back of their pickup truck, while “rednecks” throw theirs into the pond.
Or, if you have a toothpick in your mouth in all of your wedding pictures…
(maybe that’s a redneck who’s trying to quit smoking)
One of the funniest things I’ve ever heard Jeff Foxworthy say wasn’t a joke at all; it was a true story about a time in high school when he and a buddy decided to streak an assembly. To avoid detection, they wore their football helmets, so they were shocked to be called to the principal’s office later that day. When he asked how they were discovered, Foxworthy said the principal gave him a pained stare and said, “Your numbers were on your helmets, boys.”
If the bride and groom are registered at the liquor store.
I have a similar impression of them. The most stereotypical redneck activity I can think of is ATVing. Let’s enjoy nature by destroying it!
It’s Official, then.
You might be a redneck if the blue book value of your truck goes up and down depending on how much gas it has in it.
If you think fast food is hittin’ a deer at 65 miles per hour, you might be a redneck.
Not a redneck joke, but funny nonetheless:
The designated driver program, it’s not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, drop them off at the wrong house.
Your favorite breakfast is a Little Debbie snack cake and a can of orange soda pop.
I learned something about myself today.
I get that. I think it is elitist humour, and might offend some. But I think it plays more on rural and urban divides. That might not justify it to everyone.
“You might be a redneck if you’ve ever had to haul a can of paint to the top of a water tower to defend your sister’s honor.”
Someone graffitti’d “SUZIE IS EZ”, or worse, on the water tower. So you, Suzie’s brother, are climbing up to cover it over.
“You might be a redneck of going to the bathroom at night involves boots and a flashlight.”
Yes, it is terrible humor because it singles out a group of people and then making fun of them. Which gets into the argument whether we should give comedians a pass if they are joking about “their” people.
Unless that’s who painted it there in the first place.
Or worse, if the brother writes, I’ve tried, she’s not that easy.
There’s a situation like this near me. Mobile home on a half acre. The husband got a settlement over a workplace situation. He hired an Amish crew to build a ginormous garage (no permits or inspections). Everyone thought it was a house being built, but nope, just a big-ass garage.
I remember when I first heard this one. It was sent to him by a fan. He qualified it with, " this had to have happened".
Foxworthy is from that society. The jokes are humorous observations of himself, his upbringing, relatives and friends. It’s the old “is funny 'cause it’s true” things. The brilliance of the bit is that so many of the examples can apply to lots of people that aren’t poor white Southerners. Yet none of it is mean-spirited.
His observations on old people are even funnier.
In the middle of stories about visiting his wife’s folks, he tells how her dad will get up at 5 and turn on the nature channel. At full old-guy-going-deaf volume.
“And it was the oddest experience… I was lying in bed, so tired and so angry… but learning interesting facts!”
Then, indicative of how empathetic he is of the targets of his humor, he defended the old farts. I remember one line: “Sure, we make fun of them. But isn’t ‘becoming an old person’ the goal of every single one of us in this room?”