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[Tucker301]

A thread dedicated to the wholesome Southern comedy styling of Mr. Jerry Clower.

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[Tucker301]

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[MtnCreek]

Just shoot amongst us cause one of us has got to have some relief. That's my favorite. Great thread.

 

[Tucker301]

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[vh20]

Uh-huh. I got you going, didn't I?

I made a post in the thread about Odell Beckham, Jr in response to the question "Who would name their child Odell." My answer, in a somewhat veiled reference, was that the Ledbetter family, made famous in Jerry's tales, named one of their ten children Odell. Tucker was the only one who either got the reference, or at least thought it was worth commenting on, and said he was going to have to watch a few clips before going to sleep last night. I smiled when I came across this this morning!

One of my personal favorites is The Last Piece Of Chicken:

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And also, Boilled Okra:

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[MtnCreek]

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[bogeybrown]

My lady didn't know who Jerry Clower was until Sunday evening. I'd mentioned him as we were driving through Yazoo City a while back, but the reference was meaningless. We started playing some clips for her while we were boiling up blue crabs and she was in stitches. It was me, a guy 20yrs older, and a guy 15yrs younger and we all had the same connection to it from our youth. She's now a fan and has started searching out clips on her own.

Thanks for starting this one Tucker, my dad and I listened to his tapes in the car so it was a continuous run of stories. Remembering and searching clips by name is more challenging, so this helps quite a bit.

Here's a random pic of her hearing Ole Jerry for the first time. I was laughing too hard myself to get one while everyone was cracking up, but it was a great Southern evening sharing a bit of our culture with a newcomer

 

[bogeybrown]

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[vh20]

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Thanks, but I must be missing something else. That didn't do it alone...

 

[MtnCreek]

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[MTFalconer]

Ya'll are killing me.......Jerry and my grandfather were good friends. Pa bought fertilizer and various feed from Jerry when he was a salesman traveling from farm to farm. My grandparents raised me and whenever Jerry came though for a show or just traveling back and forth he would stop at our house for dinner. I knew him from the time I was a child until his passing. I have heard and loved every story he has ever told. On tape or otherwise. He was a truly genuine person, humble to a fault and as funny sitting at a kitchen table as he was on stage. My favorite memory is him offering to fight me for the last biscuit on the table. I was ten at the time...

 

[vh20]

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[tnichols]

Southern Air...nonstop from Hahira GA to Yazoo City MS.

 

[MTFalconer]

Ya'll probably don't remember an early story he told but was made famous by a evangelist singer named Wendy Bagwell and his sisters. Google "Wendy Bagwell and the sun lighters" German police dogs. Folks were always taking his stories and claiming them but this is one of the funniest stories he ever told, I promise you that. My second favorite is coming back from the county fair with Azlee delauder. "How am I supposed to hug you anyway? I got a chicken under one arm, a pig under the other and a basket on top of my head? Azlee says...."well, you could put that chicken under that basket and I could hold that little 'ol pig"....LMAO

 

[oneshot86]

tatter says, will you pa leeze unhook my suspenders from your side view mirror...
i am fucking dieing, too damn funny

 

[MTFalconer]

Tater rides the Moped....another good one, although I'm not sure there are any bad ones. Marcel's talking chain saw is another good one for the barefoot swamp runners out there.

 

[bogeybrown]

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[Tucker301]

I had forgotten about that one completely. Great stuff!

 

[ggmanning]

paraphrase: why did your coon dogs stop barking?..they are on posted land... My favorite. Wished our dogs would do that for yeas after hearing it.

 

[jrassy]

His stories are funny as hell. I love the one about the two guys getting towed all the way to Missouri from Arkansas and back in a model A with no motor.

 

[sirhrmechanic]

One of the better Onion parodies...

"South Postpones Rising Again...."

Cheers,

Sirhr

 

[xringr]

Mr Jerry's trips to our town in Chilton county alabama was the biggest thing to happen when I was a kid. He would pack out the high school auditorium every time he came.the reference to possums and peaches is from our great county and city of Clanton alabama.we still grow world famous peaches. We had a mayor named Basil Clark who tried to get the possum turned commercialized as food, furs, or pets. He raised them and had car tags made and sold that read "eat more possum!" I still see one every now and then round here. Our town must have reminded Mr Jerry of home. I still love the old stories of Mr Jerry's even though I've heard them all my life.