Whats a Metro Jethro?
Jon Reep is a self-described “Metro Jethro.” It’s his term for a rural Southern boy who finds himself living in the big city. People know he’s from Hickory, N.C., because he has said it more than once or a billion times before, during and after winning Last Comic Standing. His hometown buddies call him Hollywood because he lives in Los Angeles, but even after eight years in L.A., people there call him a redneck. As he describes in this new promo video, he’s actually both. Hence, ergo, the title of his new comedy CD and DVD, Metro Jethro: Within the first minute onstage in Charlotte for Metro Jethro, Reep is doing a sort-of Puppetry of the Paunch to show us his “bagel.” Reep is no simple redneck, though, because, well, do rednecks work out at the gym? He does, or at least has been around a locker room or two enough to have developed some specific rules for acceptable male nudity. To him, it’s not so much about your sexual orientation as it is “your sexual approximation — to my face.
