Larry the Cable Guy

Larry the Cable Guy fascinates me precisely because the persona is so deliberate. Daniel Whitney is a college-educated Nebraskan who manufactured a thick blue-collar Southern character and rode it to massive fame through the Blue Collar Comedy Tour. That gap between the man and the act is, to me, the real craft: it takes intelligence and discipline to play unpretentious so convincingly. Add stand-up, acting, writing, and even singing, and you have a versatile entertainer who is shrewder than his good-ol'-boy image lets on. I tend to admire performers whose simplicity is engineered, and he's a textbook case.

Name (English)

Larry the Cable Guy

Name (Japanese)

ラリー・ザ・ケーブル・ガイ

Reading

らりー・ざ・けーぶる・がい

Born

February 17, 1963 (age 63)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Rabbit

Origin

Pawnee City, Nebraska, United States

Occupation

stand-up comedian / actor / writer / screenwriter / singer

University

University of Nebraska–Lincoln

• Official sitehttps://www.larrythecableguy.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/gitrdonelarry
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry%20the%20Cable%20Guy
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A9%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B6%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B1%E3%83%BC%E3%83%96%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AC%E3%82%A4
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q331728

Tags

• Nebraska
• stand-up comedian
• actor
• writer

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.