For a redneck dude from a broken home and a South Alabama trailer park, Dusty Slay has kept a pretty decent sense of humor — even as his world has gotten bigger.

“Growing up in Alabama, my mom lived in a trailer; my dad on a farm right outside of La Fayette,” Slay recalls. “The only thing there is one store; one dirt track for racing; and one go-kart track for racing. I’d go visit my dad — and we’d never leave his house.

“Then it was time to go to the trailer park and visit my mom, this trailer park right up next to the woods — and we didn’t leave there, either. Growing up like that with no money and surrounded by everything you could ever want, we were real homebodies.”

Slay, who packed Mae’s Food Hall this week for a full-length standup comedy feature, has flown the coop — sort of, at least — since those days. But he takes his past with him wherever he goes.

Now based in Nashville, Slay has put together a standup act that’s rooted in his Alabama past.

He good-naturedly pillages his white-trash upbringing for material, and audiences respond — whether because they relate to Slay’s story, as many in the Deep South do; or because it’s all so alien and surprising, as it is for many urban audiences.

Fresh off a recent appearance on the Jimmy Kimmel show, Slay along with his wife, fellow comedian Hannah Hogan, took turns in front of a receptive crowd at Mae’s Thursday evening, with Hogan priming the audience as the opener for Slay’s hour-long set.

She’s from Toronto; he’s from Opelika. Her material is earthy, self-deprecating and sort of contemporary; his is earthy, self-deprecating and smarter by half than the folksy clothes in which Slay drapes his humor.

At Mae’s, the husband-wife pairing proved a winning combination. Striking the balance between both modes of humor, Hogan and then Slay, one after the other, had the audience in stitches.

Mae’s owner Shane Quick said the packed-out weeknight crowd represents exactly the sort of dream he originally envisioned when he first conceived the idea for his Warehouse-District venue.

“Being able to have a place for comedy; for things like this that Cullman has probably been ready for — but didn’t really have a place to host — it’s one of the things we really wanted to get right with a venue like Mae’s,” said Quick. “And Dusty is such a great guy to bring to a place like Cullman. It’s great to see how people are responding.”