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"Everybody Thinks They Know Me"
You might be a redneck if you had your anniversary dinner at the food court in the mall, comedian Jeff Foxworthy is fond of saying. And, he might add, if your wife celebrates your birthday with a spaghetti dinner and four new tires for your truck.Today, the day after turning 47 -- and, yes, receiving that spaghetti- dinner-and-tires gift -- Foxworthy is working his way through a barbecue sandwich. It's the bun that gets him going. Is it sesame seed or poppy seed? Speaking in the Southern vernacular, he says, "Poppy see'd you smokin' last week, and he told you not to do it no more."
The affable storyteller is still laughing about such linguistic lunacy when a waitress approaches to say some fans at another table would like to meet him.
"Everybody thinks they know me," says Foxworthy when he returns from a visit with the group. "It's never, 'Excuse me, Mr. Foxworthy,' which I wouldn't want. It's, 'Hey, Jeff!'"
All that familiarity means the folksy star has had to move to a gated community, since admirers like to pound on his door at midnight to say hello. "I don't know what it is about being a comic," he has said, "but people just walk up to me. They say, 'Jeff, you ain't gonna believe what my momma did the other day.' I'm like, 'Start telling it, 'cause I'll use it.'"
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