While Jeff Foxworthy in his early years built his stand-up career on “You might be a redneck ...” jokes, Trae Crowder just dubs himself the “liberal redneck.”
While putting those two words together is seemingly an oxymoron, Crowder has been making that his selling point to audiences. Under that “Liberal Redneck” name, he created a series of Facebook video rants that went viral in 2016.
Like Foxworthy, Crowder worked a 9-to-5 job before jumping into comedy. He spent six years at the U.S. Department of Energy in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. “It was very buttoned down, very straight-laced,” Crowder said. “I felt very out of place. I was surrounded by engineers and lawyers. None of them had a hillbilly mom or grew up in a place like Celina, Tennessee, under circumstances I did. I have a pretty white trash background. That wasn’t common there.”
