I don’t know who in my family thinks very fast at all, including me. The things that people see me do onstage are written, so it doesn’t have to be very quick if you have all day with a pen.
RON WHITEIf I sit down to write a joke about, whatever, the polluted Gulf of Mexico, it comes out mundane to me.
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I’ve never been one to look up the ladder. I’ve always looked down the ladder. As long as there’s one guy down there, I’m fine.
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I’ve asked these guys in rock bands with all the 18-wheelers driving to the venue how they make money. I just don’t understand it. But I don’t understand a lot of things.
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I still love to walk on stage and make people laugh, and I work very, very hard at it, and I take it seriously.
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I write all of my material. It’s all me.
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I’m not the judge of who that is, but I am a believer that no debt in the universe goes unpaid. If you try to buy early, you’ll pay late.
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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 want my fans to feel like we’re always in touch. Because without ’em, I wouldn’t be able to do any of this.
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It went from Bob Newhart to Flip Wilson to Bill Cosby to Richard Pryor to George Carlin to Cheech and Chong. I had all these records.
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As long as I stay engaged with everybody else, then I’ll create more comedy. It’s just when I shut off and stay at home… What helps me is just to keep moving.
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If you watch the ‘Blue Collar Comedy Tour,’ don’t expect that when you come see me by myself, ’cause it’s a little rougher.
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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 are two kinds of comics; there are the ones who build bridges, and then there are the people who walk across the bridges as though they built them. The bridge builders are few and far between.
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You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.
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Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin.
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My uncle was a preacher, and I used to go watch him preach. He was also funny, so I’m very ‘preacher-ish’ on stage, not by intent but because that’s where I learned to talk in front of people.
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