I have been meaning to post this for some time now. It seems as though Larry the Cable Guy is not the man everyone makes him out to be. Comedian David Cross has posted a letter online that he wrote to Mr. Git-R-Done and it is very interesting:
It’s me, David Cross. Recently I was shooting something for my friends at “Wonder Showzen” (the funniest, most subversive comedy on American T.V. at the moment) and when we were taking a break one of the guys on the show asked me if I had seen some article in something somewhere wherein you were interviewed to promote your new book “Please-Git-R-Done” (published by Crown Books $23.95 U.S.) and they asked about your devoting a chapter to slamming me and the “P.C. Left”. Since I stopped following your career shortly after you stopped going on stage wearing a tool belt with cable wrapped around your neck (around your appearance at “Laffs ‘n’ Food” in Enid, Oklahoma Aug 23-26 1999?) I said I wasn’t aware of the article. They went on to tell me that you said basically (and I am not quoting but paraphrasing their recall) that I could kiss your ass, that I’ve never been to one of your shows (true) and that I didn’t know your audience (untrue).
SO, I went and got your book, “Gitting-R-Donned”, and excitedly skimmed past the joke about that one time you farted and something farty happened, on past the thing about the fat girl who farted and finally found it, . Well, needless to say I farted. I farted up a fartstorm right there in the Flyin’ J Travel Center. I fartingly bought the book and took it home with an excitement I haven’t experienced since I got Bertha Chudfarter’s Grandma drunk and she took her teeth out and blew me as I was finger banging her while wearing a Jesus sock puppet in the back of the boiler room at The Church of the Redeemer off I-20 (I don’t care who you are, that’s funny.)
Anyhoo, I got home and read the good parts. It seems that you were pissed off at Rolling Stone magazine, and I can understand why. You made some good points in your argument as well. I agree that there is an eliteism and bias in the press and too often a writer will include asides to show the readers how smart he or she is and how “above it” they are. But come on! Surely you can’t be surprised, or worse, hurt or offended by this. You even say in the book that you knew what you were getting into (Rolling Stone being all “lefty” and whatnot). Certainly I’m not surprised that they took a ten minute phone conversation with me and chose to print only the most inflammatory paragraph within it. That’s what they do.
You can read the rest of the letter here. It is rather long but very informative and funny. Also, I have included a rare clip of old Larry before he was Larry the Cable Guy. It just goes to show you the scam he has effectively pulled on rednecks around the country.