LEWISTON – Larry the Cable Guy returned to the Colisee on Saturday, bringing his cracker barrel comedy to a near capacity crowd.

“If you need to go to Wal-Mart, now would be the time to go,” he joked, looking back on a sea of flannel shirts and camo-colored ball caps.

Nobody left as the comic – whose real name is Dan Whitney – promised a fun show. Rude, but fun.

“Last night I was performing for a pregnant lady,” he said. “I made her laugh so hard, a foot came out of her nose.”

Laughs filled the 4,500-seat arena.

Larry sold out the Colisee in May 2006, following performances in Bangor and Augusta.

Before the show, he talked quietly with fans in a ticketed “meet-and-greet session,” posing for photos, signing autographs and talking to fans’ friends by cell phone.

On stage, his jokes made fun of disabilities – “He was madder than an albino hitchhiking in a snowstorm” – and his overweight relatives.

Off the stage, the pitch man for NutriSystem talked about his own battle with obesity.

“I’ve done 50 pounds,” he said, pulling at the belly of his too-big flannel shirt.

“It was the best thing I’ve ever done,” he said in a brief interview. “I eat regular food, lasagna and hamburger, whatever their food is.”

The weight loss program “teaches you how to eat and drink water, a lot of water,” he said during a serious chat – minus the affected “git ‘er done” grunt.

When he took the stage, he gave folks his catch phrase after only a few seconds.

“What are the odds I was going to say that?” he asked while folks cheered.

Among them was Josh Larsen of Rumford, who’d practiced his own “Git ‘er done” impression on the ride down from the River Valley. The phrase was written on his camo ball cap and bright white T-shirt.

“I love him,” he said.

Scott Cayouette and his wife, Debbie Carter, stopped short of Larsen’s adoration. However, the Winslow couple was excited.

Earlier Saturday, they’d attended a cat show in town. The concert was meant as a finale to the day.

“What else is there to do?” Cayouette joked. “I’m 42. I’m not going to the mall.”