I love Cincinnati, but you can keep that spaghetti chili product!
RON WHITEThere’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 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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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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Everybody I know is a joke writer.
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My brain is like a cross between a colander and a Lazy Susan – thin, slow, and it leaks.
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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 go to more open mic nights than open mikers.
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I didn’t get where I am today by worryin’ about how I’d feel tomorrow.
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My life has been wild enough to derive all of the stories you need out of it. I’ve been through many, many years of behavioral problems, so I don’t really look outside for stories.
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My biggest pet peeve, I guess, is other comedians criticizing Larry the Cable Guy.
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My opening acts are always really strong because I need a guy who can take on a big, big crowd. Which is not that easy to do.
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I’d rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.
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I do a lot of gay-friendly stuff in my show, and men, women, they all love it. I practice non-judgment in my daily life and hope other people do the same thing.
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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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Somebody the other day had a review, called me ‘America’s reprobate.’ And I don’t even know what that means, but I kinda like the way it sounds.
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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.
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