Larry the Cable Guy keeps them laughing

By Gary Herron, Observer staff writer
Published on Sunday, October 14, 2007 7:46 AM MDT

Truth be told, Larry the Cable Guy only said his trademark "Git R Done" four or five times Saturday evening at his Santa Ana Star Center performance.

It was classic "Larry."

Take away the poop and flatulence jokes, strip away the sexual innuendo, omit cracks about retarded people ands he's still got a solid five minutes of material.

Dressed is his usual Larry garb -- plaid shirt cut off at the shoulders, jeans and a baseball cap - he followed a comedian named Reno Collier, who apparently will be joining the Blue Collar Comedy Tour frequented by Larry, Bill Engvall, Jeff Foxworthy and Ron White.

If so, run for cover.

Collier's not funny and laughs a bit too much at his own jokes, which - did I mention? - aren't funny. He's from West Virginia and likes to poke fun at Native Americans and Hispanics, the latter of which were more prevalent among the Star Center's seats.

Thanking the Star Center management for the ostentatious décor - there were five banks of bulbs at the front of the stag - and no backdrop.

Larry then spent 80 minutes pacing back and forth, telling jokes in his rambling, non-segue style.

Of the jokes "clean" enough for a family newspaper, Larry told about a buddy who picked up a Chinese prostitute - and got lead poisoning; and how in these days of high gas prices, his not-so-smart brother "sold his truck for gas money" and told of some street gangs doing "walk-by shootings."

Of his wife - "I love her to death," he said - Larry noted how they have the same thing for dinner every night, nausea, and how her meat loaf should be on the TV show "Fear Factor."

And Larry told about seeing an Eagles concert in Las Vegas recently, and that the rock group is aging so much that someday soon they'll be known as the Bald Eagles. He said he'd been to Canada recently, where he found it almost cold enough to wear sleeves.

Not everyone thinks Larry the Cable Guy is funny, it seems.

Larry once heard someone tell him, "You only make fun of things you don't understand.

"If that was true," he said, "my whole show would be about algebra."

Of course, as the concert wound down, Larry picked up his guitar and strummed a few chords while cracking wise: There were quips about NASCAR and Viagra, staples in every comedian's repertoire these days.

"If Southern girls are called Southern Belles, are Mexican girls called Taco Bells?" he queried.

You get the picture.

Other comedic acts coming to Santa Ana Star Center: Weird Al Yankovic on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m., and the world famous Harlem Globetrotters on Jan. 16 at 7 p.m.

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