A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.

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Entry from July 08, 2015
“You’re redneck if entertainment is a bug zapper and a six-pack”

A popular redneck joke is:
 
“You might be a redneck if…
...you consider a six-pack and a bug zapper to be quality entertainment.”

 
American stand-up comedian Jeff Foxworthy wrote a book of redneck jokes titled You Might Be a Redneck if… and has included this joke since at least 1990.
 
   
Wikipedia: Jeff Foxworthy
Jeffrey Marshall “Jeff” Foxworthy (born September 6, 1958) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, television and radio personality, author, and voice artist. He is a member of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, a comedy troupe which also comprises Larry the Cable Guy, Bill Engvall, and Ron White. Known for his “You might be a redneck” one-liners, Foxworthy has released six major-label comedy albums. His first two albums were each certified 3× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. Foxworthy has written several books based on his redneck jokes, as well as an autobiography entitled No Shirt, No Shoes… No Problem!.
 
Google Groups: rec.humor.funny
You might be a Redneck if
Burch Seymour
12/24/90
Are you a Redneck? This is by Comedian Jeff Foxworthy, excerpted from his book “You Might Be a Redneck if…” Published by Longstreet Press Marietta, Ga.
 
You might be a Redneck if…..
 
Your richest relative buys a new house, and you have to help take the wheels off of it.
 
Your wife’s hairdo has ever been destroyed by a ceiling fan.
 
You consider a six-pack and a bug zapper to be quality entertainment.
   
Google News Archive
7 July 1991, The Ledger (Lakewood, FL), “Columnists agree” by Lonnie Brown, pg. 3F, col. 3:
You might consider yourself to be a West Virginian if:
(...)
. You consider a six-pack and a bug zapper quality entertainment.
 
Google News Archive
15 August 1991, Tuscaloosa (AL) News, “Bill’s World,” og. 7A, col. 4:
Bill Tammeus is on vacation. Bill Kirby of the Gwinnett Daily News, Duluth, Ga., passes along these tell-tale signs that you’re from Dixie:
 
. You consider a six-pack and a bug zapper quality entertainment.
 
Google Books
Study Guide to Contemporary Marketing,
Seventh Edition

By Louis E Boone and David L. Kurtz
Fort Worth, TX: Dryden Press
1992
Pg. 47:
Now if she could just make some friends who didn’t think a six-pack of beer and a bug-zapper were quality entertainment, even Eisenton might be bearable.
 
Google Books
May 1992, Spy magazine, “Cracker-Bashing” by Roy Blount Jr., pg. 92, col. 1:
This is from a Xeroxed sheet I received in the mail. No author given. The title is “You Might Be Considered a Redneck If…”
(...)
A six-pack of beer and watching a bug zapper are quality entertainment.
 
Google Books
More Redneck Jokes
By Jim Bob Buford and Jack Grabowski
New York, NY: Barnes & Noble Books
1998
Pg. 20:
YOU KNOW YOU’RE A REDNECK IF…
...you think a good time is a bug zapper and a six-pack.
 
Google Books
You Might Be A Redneck If ...
This Is The Biggest Book You’ve Ever Read

By Jeff Foxworthy
Nashville, TN: Rutledge Hill Press
2004
Pg. 157:
You Might Be a Redneck If…
You consider a six-pack of beer and a bug zapper quality entertainment.
   
Google Books
Apocalypse with a Side of Grilled Spam - Episode One
By Michael Angel
Banty Hen Publishing
2013
Pg. ?:
“He once told me that a bug zapper and a six pack was good evening entertainment.”
 
“You’re kidding me!”
 
“Naw, it’s true. He liked watchin’ dumb bugs be attracted to somethin’ as silly as…”
 
Twitter
A Funny Joke
‏@AFunnyJoke247
#FunnyJoke You might be a redneck if… You consider a six-pack and a bug-zapper high quality entertainment. http://ow.ly/30sqda
7:28 PM - 23 Jun 2015

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