How did the Blue Collar Comedy tour come about?
Jeff Foxworthy: I was reading a thing in the paper the weekend that the Kings of Comedy thing came out, and it said it was a show for the urban, hip audience. And I called Bill [Engvall] up, and I said, “You know what? This leaves a lot of people out.” And so I said, “We should do a tour for everybody else.” … And of course, we’ve been friends with Ron [White] and Larry [the Cable Guy] for 20 years now. So we were going to do it for four months. We had no idea if it would work or not. I said, “We’ll all go out and do stand up, and then we’ll just bring four stools out, and we’ll try to make each other laugh.” Well, the first night we were in Omaha and there were 9,000 people sitting out there. You have no idea if it’s going to work or not, and you couldn’t rehearse it. And we got to the end of the first night and said goodnight, and 9,000 people stood up. We were like, “Hey, we’re onto something.” So you really didn’t do a lot of rehearsal? It just flows so beautifully. We’ve just kn
