Jeff Foxworthy and Pamela Gregg’s love story began at the kind of place not exactly renowned for its romance: a comedy club. Yes, the couple first met at an Atlanta venue named The Punchline where the former was in the very early stages of his stand-up career.
The future comedy icon was working at IBM when some coworkers suggest he try stand-up. While many novice comics might begin with open mic nights, his very first show was a stand-up contest. Talk about pressure. As he said at a one-on-one chat hosted by Buckhead Church, “This wasn’t an amateur night, it was for working comedians.” Although understandably nervous, Foxworthy obviously must have done a decent job as not only did he win the whole shebang, he also ended up on a date with Gregg, who happened to be in the audience.
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“So the first night I was onstage, she was there, and I won the contest!” Foxworthy recalled to Closer Weekly. “She came up and talked to me. I was so nervous, I spilled my drink down her sweater and said, ‘I guess you’ll never go out with me,’ and she said, ‘Well, you haven’t even asked.’ An hour into the first date, I was like, ‘Oh crap, I’m going to marry this girl.’ So I met my wife and started my career on the same night!”
