Larry the Cable Guy Loves "Cars 2," The Olive Garden, and Air Supply, in No Particular Order

Contrary to the I-Man’s opinion, Larry the Cable Guy wearing a shirt with actual sleeves this morning is not an indication that the notoriously blue-collared comedian has “gone Hollywood.”
 
“It looks good,” Imus said, as Larry modeled his Hawaiin-style shirt. “You are fat, but what are you gonna do?”
 
Larry’s goal today was to promote Cars 2, the forthcoming animated flick that is the sequel to Cars, in which Larry voices the role of Mater the Tow Truck. “Cars is my favorite, because it was my first one,” he said. “But Cars 2 blew me away. It almost made me ashamed I was in the first one.”
 
He described Cars 2 as action-packed from beginning to end, and admitted he was thrilled to be in any movie that produced a sequel. Accused of being a phony, Larry informed Imus that he’s not the only member of his family jacked up about the film.
 
“My little girl’s three going on four, my little boy’s four going on Ritalin,” he said. “They’re excited about the movie too!”
 
Besides providing the voice of Mater, Larry’s also—duh—a fairly famous stand-up comedian; so famous in fact, that scores of imitators pretend to be him in bars to get free drinks and the like. One way to distinguish the real Larry the Cable Guy from a fraud would be the gold Nebraska Cornhuskers chain he wears around his neck, and the one-of-a-kind, camouflage Double-H boots on his feet.
 
“There are only six pairs in the world, and I’ve got all six pairs,” Larry said, all but confirming Imus’s theory that he has, in fact, gone Hollywood on us.
 
But that doesn’t mean he’s not funny. As preparation for his appearance on Sean Hannity’s show last night and on Imus’s today, Larry has been keeping up with the news.
 
“There was a woman in Oregon that had an operation on her teeth, and now she speaks with an English accent,” he reported. “I thought it was weird, until I remembered three years ago, after I had my last kid, I had a vasectomy. And for about a year-and-a-half after, I sang in my head nothing but Air Supply tunes. It was really bizarre.”
 
A family man, Larry frequently dines at The Olive Garden (“I don’t like to brag, but we’ve come into some money,” he told Imus), where the commercials tout, “We treat you like family.”
 
Turns out it’s more than just a tagline. “No sooner we got there, they told my brother-in-law he’s a lazy piece of crap,” Larry said. Though he was pleased the chain lived up to its expectations, he was disappointed to learn that The Olive Garden would soon remodel the interior of all its restaurants to resemble a farmhouse in Tuscany.
 
“I told my wife, ‘That’s awesome,’” he said. “Because the only thing they’re lacking is a goat giving birth under my table.”
 
Say what you will about wearing sleeves—there’s not an ounce of Hollywood in that last statement.
 
Or in this one: “Git-R-Done!”
 
-Julie Kanfer