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Jeff Foxworthy has long been known as the "redneck comedian." For the past two seasons, the comic known for his "you might be a redneck if..." one-liners has also hosted the Fox game show Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader? While Foxworthy jokes that he answers approximately 55% of the show's questions correctly - putting him at about a third-grade knowledge level - that hasn't stopped him from agreeing to host a new, daily syndicated version to complement the weekly broadcast. Foxworthy chatted with TIME about his pre-comedy career as a technician for IBM, his signature...
...same writers moved to “Frasier,” where they perfected the art of the slow burn. In the alternative TV universe where Niles and Daphne have sex and get it over with in the first season, they might have been raising a first grader by the time they actually kiss in season seven. And it’s not that the writers of “The Office” haven’t figured this out. In fact, they’re all too aware of the problem. It’s clear that they?...
...Rogers, an eighth grader at the K-12 Bronxville School in Bronxville, N.Y., was starting for the varsity boys’ soccer team, and some argued that it was too much, too soon. But with the Broncos down, 2-0, to North Salem in his first game, Rogers provided his rebuttal, seamlessly transferring a high pass from his chest to his foot and burying the ball in the bottom right corner...
...Real-World Scientist When Chu was a second-grader in a Long Island, New York, suburb, his father told him, Don't get married until after you get your Ph.D. It was that kind of family; even an aunt whose feet were bound when she was a girl in China became a chemistry professor in the U.S. "It was always assumed that all of us would be science professors," Chu recalled. He has two brothers and four cousins in the U.S., all with doctorates. When I asked how many advanced degrees they have, he asked if a law degree counts...
Ever since 11-year-old Damon Weaver scooped seasoned journalists by landing an interview with Barack Obama on Aug. 13, the adorably precocious sixth-grader from Pahokee, Fla., has taken YouTube by storm. His viral fame has already landed him a scholarship offer from Georgia's Albany State University and appearances on CNN, Fox and MSNBC. The reporter for his elementary school's KEC-TV station talked to TIME about his upcoming interviews, his career plans and what he thinks of Wolf Blitzer. (See pictures of YouTube's meteoric rise...