The only way to stay sharp is to do live shows. There is no part-time comedy.
RON WHITEI don’t like to do material people have heard. Now, they like to hear material that they know, because that’s the stuff that made me famous, and, unfortunately, I don’t do a ton of it.
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I don’t watch Comedy Central. I don’t enjoy it.
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You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.
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My show is more storytelling now than it’s ever been. It’s what I’m good at.
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I go to more open mic nights than open mikers.
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There’s no idea or concept in comedy you could do that hasn’t been attacked from some angle. But if you start leaving punchlines out so you’ll look cool, I don’t get that. But I don’t watch standup anyway, so I don’t know what they’re doing.
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That’s the beauty of being a straight-to-DVD star. It really helps you stay under the media’s radar.
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I love Cincinnati, but you can keep that spaghetti chili product!
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You can’t fix stupid.
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I didn’t get where I am today by worryin’ about how I’d feel tomorrow.
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My favorite bands are the Allman Brothers and Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.
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People, when they go on stage, tend to be animated and try to force things out instead of relaxing and bringing it in.
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You can tell on-stage when a joke’s starting to lose its pop. It doesn’t mean people don’t want to hear it anymore; it means I don’t want to do it anymore. Because I want to move on to something that has a knee-jerk reaction just like you get when you tell somebody a joke that they’ve never heard.
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I was talking to a guy who was holding his 18-month-old daughter with the only limb he had left, and he had a smile on his face. I thought, ‘I’m not even a 10th of this man.’
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My life has been wild enough to derive all of the stories you need out of it. I’ve been through many, many years of behavioral problems, so I don’t really look outside for stories.
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