IRVINGTON, Ala. — “Git-R-Done!” Anyone who is a fan of Larry the Cable Guy is certainly familiar with his popular catchphrase.
Now the Nebraska-born comedian (given name Daniel Lawrence Whitney), who gained fame as one of the co-stars of …
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IRVINGTON, Ala. — “Git-R-Done!” Anyone who is a fan of Larry the Cable Guy is certainly familiar with his popular catchphrase.
Now the Nebraska-born comedian (given name Daniel Lawrence Whitney), who gained fame as one of the co-stars of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, has his own show on The History Channel titled Only in America with Larry the Cable Guy.
The show, which airs Tuesday’s (8 p.m. Central Time) on the cable network, has featured some of the unique places in America, mostly in the South and one segment which aired during the show’s first season featured Mobile’s Greyhound Park.
On Saturday, Larry and the crew, which are currently filming the show’s second season, returned to Mobile, this time to film a segment at Mobile International Speedway with Baldwin County native son Bubba Blackwell.
“It turns out that Larry is a big fan of Harley Davidson,” said Blackwell, who is billed as one of the only performers to use the popular motorcycle in jumping stunts, patterned after his idol Evel Knievel.
Larry was set to perform in concert Saturday night in Biloxi and the original plan, Blackwell said, was to film the segment at the casino where he will be performing.
“But the casino decided they did not want us filming in their parking lot, so that left us scrambling for a new location,” Blackwell said. “They wanted a location that would be within an hour or so of where he’s going to be performing.”
So Blackwell called on his friend, Rick Crawford, who runs Mobile International Speedway in Irvington. Crawford and Blackwell had hooked up just over a month earlier on Blackwell’s Ride for St. Jude, which included a ride through the speedway en route to concerts at the Mobile Fairgrounds.
Larry and his crew spent most of the day and into the evening Saturday filming at Mobile International Speedway before a few hundred fans who braved the heat to come out and watch the taping.
“They got a lot of great footage,” Blackwell said in a phone interview on Monday.
Blackwell set out of Saturday to complete a record jump of 15 Coca-Cola trucks, and while he completed several shorter jumps for the few fans in attendance during filming, the combination of bike malfunctions and weather issues, left him a little short of the record jump.
“We were only 16 feet from the record and I know that doesn’t seem like much, but it just didn’t feel right and I’ve been in those situations before where I went ahead and jumped and ended up getting hurt,” he said. “We sent the show footage of other record jumps and they got a lot of good footage on Saturday that they could use, but I’m disappointed and upset that we couldn’t complete our show for the fans. I sent Rick a message that we are going to come back at some point in the future and put on a show for free, so that’s what we’re going to do.”
While Larry the Cable Guy not availble for comment, a spokesperson with the History Channel, before Saturday’s taping, said they were “very excited about coming back to Mobile.”
Producers said Saturday that the show is set to air during the second season of Only in America with Larry the Cable Guy, probably sometime in November.