Chrissy Teigen and Jeff Foxworthy Couldn't Be More Opposite, but She Calls Him "The Unexpected Love of My Life"
NBC's new comedy competition show, Bring the Funny, debuts on July 9.
Recent Good Housekeeping cover model Chrissy Teigen, stand-up comic Jeff Foxworthy, and Saturday Night Live star Kenan Thompson are the judges, and Insecure actress Amanda Seales hosts.
Teigen calls that quartet "hands-down the best group of people I've ever gotten a chance to work with."
If you tried to come up with Chrissy Teigen's hypothetical opposite, Jeff Foxworthy wouldn't be a bad guess. On paper, the two have very little in common. She started modeling at age 18 after being discovered at a surf shop, he grew up in the south as the son of an IBM exec. She lives in Beverly Hills, he has a beloved 3,000-acre farm in Georgia.
And yet, while they seem like they have nothing in common, put them together at a judges' table, and they prove that opposites really can work well together. The two, along with Saturday Night Live's Kenan Thompson, will appear in NBC's new comedy competition show, Bring the Funny, in which 40 comedic acts will compete. Variety, stand-up, and sketch comedy acts are included, and Amanda Seales, the stand-up/writer/DJ who played Tiffany on Insecure, will host. "It is hands-down the best group of people I've ever gotten a chance to work with," Teigen says in an interview with GoodHousekeeping.com.
And yet, while she seems smitten with the whole team, she's taken an extra shine to Foxworthy. "Jeff Foxworthy became the unexpected love of my life," she says. "I never would have guessed how much I could love this man. His family is incredible. Our lives couldn't be more different. In commercial breaks, I love hearing him talk about plowing corn, or his life on the farm."
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Of course, she also has plenty of praise leftover for Thompson, who she calls "a sketch-comedy genius" — which is important, since Bring the Funny features all sorts of comedians, from sketch groups to solo stand-ups to variety acts. "I've just never been so happy just looking to my left, looking to my right, and being wedged between these two human beings who are just so kind and so generous," she says. "You realize why they've been in Hollywood for so long. It's because people love working with them. It's just so cool, honestly, to go to work and be paid to laugh at things."
Of course, Teigen isn't the only one getting paid. After 10 episodes, the winner of Bring the Funny will walk away with a $250,000 cash prize. Well, the winner will walk away with that, and the knowledge that they can make people of incredibly different backgrounds laugh really hard.
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