From there, the trek will hit arenas, auditoriums, casinos and theatres in cities such as Sioux Falls, S.D., Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Indio, Calif., Reno, Nev., Chattanooga, Tenn., Minneapolis, Minn., and Columbus, Ohio, before wrapping up at the Ervin J. Nutter Center in Dayton, Ohio, August 19th.

The Cable Guy regularly sells out venues, including second shows, with his church-going, strip-club loving redneck persona that he told Pollstar originated on a Florida radio station in 1992.

“I started calling radio stations with political commentaries, with kind of a right-wing, Archie Bunker slant to everything. But unlike Archie Bunker, it’s a real likable character,” Larry said. “For 12 or 13 years I was getting up every morning at 6 o’clock to call in, Monday through Friday. I would maybe have two or three days off now and then. Some stations wanted two commentaries a day. I just developed my following from that.”

Manager J.P. Williams had a simpler explanation for the comic’s appeal.

“He’s got a likability I have never seen in a human being. He’s like a young child,” Williams told Pollstar. “He gets away with stuff that 99 percent of all the comedians could never do. People were just taking to him.”