I get e-mail from all over the world, and from lawyers and doctors and whoever – plumbers and drywall hangers.
RON WHITEI get e-mail from all over the world, and from lawyers and doctors and whoever – plumbers and drywall hangers.
RON WHITEI was by far the least popular of the Blue Collar crew when we started. There was a definite pecking order, and everybody knew it.
RON WHITEI believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you’re a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level.
RON WHITEI 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.
RON WHITEComedy is great because there’s no overhead.
RON WHITEI still love to walk on stage and make people laugh, and I work very, very hard at it, and I take it seriously.
RON WHITEYou 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.
RON WHITEPeople, when they go on stage, tend to be animated and try to force things out instead of relaxing and bringing it in.
RON WHITEA lot of people can find something to laugh at in my humor, I guess.
RON WHITEIf you become famous and don’t have a live show to back it up, they’re not going to pay you any money.
RON WHITEAnything I write that I consider stage-quality work, I won’t give my TV show. I put it in my live show.
RON WHITEComedy is all about the pause.
RON WHITETelevision is 15 hour days. Movies are 18 hour days. And it’s 18 hours of doing not a thing.
RON WHITEI could do no wrong in my mother’s eyes from the day I was born. My fans bought her a very nice house in San Antonio, and she has a great life.
RON WHITEI go through about 140 cities a year.
RON WHITEI go to more open mic nights than open mikers.
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