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Article: CRAZY LIKE A FOX COMEDIAN JEFF FOXWORTHY, HAPPY DESPITE TV SHOW'S FAILURE, BRINGS HIS STANDUP ACT TO THE PALACE FRIDAY BY STEVE BARNES STAFF WRITER.(PREVIEW)

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Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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April 2, 1998
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You might be a redneck if . . .

Your sitcom gets canceled by two networks within a year.

Your next project after TV is to open barbecue restaurants and put your name on a line of barbecue sauces for sale at Wal-Mart.

You're too nice to say anything bad about network-TV executives.

One might think Jeff Foxworthy would have plenty of nastiness or bitter regret to heap upon the Hollywood folks, at ABC and later NBC. They saw the wild popularity of his books and stand-up comedy shows and recordings, and gave him a TV sitcom. And then canceled it. Twice.

ABC offered Foxworthy his first sitcom shot -- but, in a profoundly weird ...

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