Foxworthy Funnies
Foxworthy Funnies by Roxanne McDonald
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It’s a helluva way to recap, maybe, but what’s the protocol for a game show recap, anyway? |
It is clear the game show and now the reality show routes are being trod by the best of comics as hosts. Any evidence “Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader?” will stand the test of travel time likely rests, then, not only in the concept of the show overall but in the jokes Foxworthy delivers—jokes that even and especially the fifth graders love. In fact, when Foxworthy asks one fifth grader, Kyle, if he could trade places with any one famous person, Kyle answers, “You. I think you’re really funny.”
Kyle’s right, even if he was prompted in advance.
When Foxworthy reads Sam the question, what is the heaviest land animal? He quips that, by the way, “it’s not your mother-in-law.”
During one particularly tense moment, Foxworthy notes how Sam is shakin’…”shakin’ like a cricket in a [shoe?] convention.”
When Spencer is called to be Sam’s classmate, he asks Sam how tall he is. Sam answers he’s six-two. Foxworthy tells Sam Spencer wants to be seven-two, and then turns to Spencer and says, “You know, when you’re seven-two, you’re gonna have really big feet: you’re gonna have to go outside to turn around.”
When Sam wrongly answers which state is furthest west [California, Alaska, or Nevada], saying California, Sam has to rely on his classmate for the right answer. Foxworthy snipes, “You just got saved by somebody who wears superhero underwear.”
The kids are funny in their own right. As the show opens and the fifth graders are seen arriving and putting their backpacks and book bags in their cubicles, I think I saw Kyle toss his in the bushes. And when Spencer is called to be the helping classmate, Foxworthy asks him what he does when he is not in school, and he answers that he “picks up girls.”
Not only are they smart, they have the makings of future Foxworthys. Something to be proud of, really.
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