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...salads served on Limoges china, a husky guy in Army green shorts and a sleeveless Superman T-shirt showed up at the bar and asked for a Jim Beam and Coke. Were this a Ponderosa restaurant in almost any other town in America, Larry, whose real name is Dan Whitney, would be mobbed. Instead, because we're surrounded by the kind of people more likely to mob Jeffrey Katzenberg, I have the affable icon of rural American comedy to myself. Or so I think...
...Whitney is visiting from his home outside Orlando, Fla., promoting his new movie out May 11, Delta Farce. He's in the middle of telling me how he passes time on the road - watching cattle auctions on his computer - when it becomes clear that Whitney and I both know our waiter, Russell, an aspiring screenwriter. (Often the really talented people in L.A. are the ones serving the rest of us hacks lunch). Russell helped write a movie in which Whitney is considering taking a role. Russell also lived in the same dorm with me at college. "What are the odds...
...Whitney's standup routine of country rube one-liners is his bread and butter, but he's becoming a box office regular. In 2006, his movie Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector earned $15.6 million, proving that enough of Whitney's fans would show up at the multiplex for the potty humor and Dale Earnhardt Jr. references they knew from the Blue Collar Comedy Tour to make his films profitable. As the voice of the tow truck character Mater in the Pixar movie Cars, Whitney was introduced to some other demographics...
...Delta Farce, Whitney is taking on the war on terror in a trenchant political drama... Oh, who are we kidding? The fart jokes are back, people. This time Larry and his buds, played by fellow Blue Collar alum Bill Engvall and gangly character actor DJ Qualls, are bumbling Army reservists bound for Iraq. "I love what I do and I don't take myself too seriously," says Whitney, 44. "This character is fun. It gives me a chance to take that little bit of me - how I grew up - and magnify it. I could care less about doing a huge...
...Whitney, who is the son of a preacher and has been a vocal Bush supporter, has been a lightning rod for critics, who have accused him of racism and homophobia. He's quick to tell me about his gay tour bus driver ("one of my best friends...