I’m set up where I make a lot of money doing stand-up, and it’s easy.
RON WHITEI was desperate for new material, so anything I can write a joke about that works is in the act. No matter who it offends, or who it bothers – doesn’t matter if its something my wife hates.
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I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you’re a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level.
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I’ve got a great cigar collection – it’s actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn’t going to smoke every last one of ’em.
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The only way to stay sharp is to do live shows. There is no part-time comedy.
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Everybody I know is a joke writer.
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I didn’t get where I am today by worryin’ about how I’d feel tomorrow.
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I write these shows one joke at a time. There’s no continuity. I do try to figure an order to the stories, but there’s not continuity.
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I go through about 140 cities a year.
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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 was desperate for new material, so anything I can write a joke about that works is in the act. No matter who it offends, or who it bothers – doesn’t matter if its something my wife hates.
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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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I was so in love with the idea of making people laugh for a living that I didn’t care what I had to do to get there. Or how much money I was going to make when I did get there.
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Ultimately I’m the writer for me, but also, anytime one of my friends gets stuck with a bit, they can call me, and I’m pretty good at helping them get there.
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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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I was considered by my peers to be a good comedian. So that’s all I ever strived to do was get some recognition from my peers.
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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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