Truett S. Beasley Jr.

Truett S. Beasley Jr. (born 1953), better known by his stage name Killer Beaz, is an American stand-up comedian. He has a strong southern accent and a strong following in the southern United States. Born to Truett S. Beasley and Gwen Norman Beasley in Andalusia, Alabama, his father was a Korean War veteran and a captain with the Jackson, Mississippi Police Department, as well as a licensed funeral director, and his mother was a public school teacher. He graduated from Wingfield High School in 1972, where he was voted the "wittiest" of the class.

Beasley began his career as a musician, playing guitar in a blues band, and received his stage name from an audience member who declared a guitar lick to be "Killer, Beaz!" He first performed comedy in 1982 when a bar owner requested a comedian perform. With no real outlets for comedy in his home state, he spent time opening for musical groups and at pool halls. After seeing comedian Jay Leno perform in Chicago in the early 1980s, he had an "epiphany" and relocated to Nashville, where he was embraced for his strong accent.

As his career developed, Beasley made hundreds of appearances on The Nashville Network and CMT, appearing on over 100 television programs, and is known for the catchphrase "save up." On the 1996 album NASCAR: Hotter Than Asphalt, he recorded a song called "Save Up" backed by Lynyrd Skynyrd. His parents were both killed in 2005 by a drunk driver, an incident that left him unwilling to perform for over a year. His first major-label comedy album, Don't Ever Touch Anybody You Don't Know, was released in 2013 on Jack Records, an imprint of Warner Bros. Records. He has also appeared on numerous episodes of the television series Moonshiners, alongside friends Mark and Digger.