I was a huge fan of comedy when I was a child.
RON WHITEI was a little one-trick pony. I do what I’ve always done. That’s really where my best stuff comes from. I don’t know how it happens. It just happens.
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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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If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it’s being true to their nature… that’s what takes a long time to learn.
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You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.
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There have been times when I played more than others, but I’ve been a road comic for a quarter of a century, so I’ve always played golf on the road because you have a lot of time to kill.
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Everybody I know is a joke writer.
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If I’m not in the theatre, I’m in an open mic night or doing a guest set at the Comedy Club, or whatever, just trying to develop stuff.
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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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TV is a hard job. You work 15 hours a day. People tell you what to do. I hate to do it.
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I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative.
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Mother, she likes the blue material just fine.
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I don’t have a specific plan except for as long as people want to listen to me talk, I’m going to keep talking. I can’t imagine a life without doing standup.
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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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A lot of people can find something to laugh at in my humor, I guess.
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Diamonds – that’ll shut her up… for a minute!
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I consider it an honor and a privilege to give back however I can for the many sacrifices of these incredibly brave men and women.
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