I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you’re a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level.
RON WHITEI get e-mail from all over the world, and from lawyers and doctors and whoever – plumbers and drywall hangers.
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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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I didn’t get where I am today by worryin’ about how I’d feel tomorrow.
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All of my comedian friends are some of the best joke writers in the world.
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Let’s face it: a lot of my material comes from the stuff that happens to me on the road.
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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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I’m definitely guilty of thinking something is funny but thinking the audience won’t. Then three years later I will finally try it and it’ll kill them. I got to give them more credit.
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I go to more open mic nights than open mikers.
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There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong.
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I 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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You can’t fix stupid.
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I’ve been married a few times. I’m not good at it.
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Television is 15 hour days. Movies are 18 hour days. And it’s 18 hours of doing not a thing.
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I started selling out comedy clubs before I got to town with no advertising. I was selling out theaters just on the rumor that I was going to be there.
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I’m set up where I make a lot of money doing stand-up, and it’s easy.
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I was by far the least popular of the Blue Collar crew when we started. There was a definite pecking order, and everybody knew it.
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