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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.

Ron White

I don’t watch Comedy Central. I don’t enjoy it.
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Central Comedy Enjoy Watch
A killer Cuban restaurant with a giant cigar bar. Have me a Cuban sandwich. That’s just like heaven to me. I’m a simple man.
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Cigar Cuban Giant Heaven Killer Restaurant Sanwick Simple
I go to more open mic nights than open mikers.
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Mic Milker More Night Open
If I sit down to write a joke about, whatever, the polluted Gulf of Mexico, it comes out mundane to me.
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Come Country Down Gulf Joke Out Pollute Rite
The first thing I ever got my hands on was Andy Griffith’s ‘What It Was, Was Football.’ I was fascinated with the fact that every syllable made it funny, and I would laugh even though I didn’t know what any of it meant.
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Fascinate First Football Game Hand Imagine Life Listen Made Syllable Talk Thing
My shows are not all-the-way filthy, but they can be.
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All Be Can Show Way
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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All Record Country Flip Had People Went
All of my comedian friends are some of the best joke writers in the world.
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Best Comedian Friend Joke Some World Write
Here’s how I operate. When I see something I like, 20 years later, I ask her brother for her phone number. She don’t even see me coming.
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Brother Come Later Number Operate Phone See Something
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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Audience Definite Funny Guilt Kill Later Something Them Think Try
A lot of people can find something to laugh at in my humor, I guess.
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Find Guess Humor Laugh Lot People Something
Comedy is great because there’s no overhead.
RON WHITE

Comedy Great No Overhead
If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it’s being true to their nature… that’s what takes a long time to learn.
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Big Comic Common Denominator Long Look Nature Success True
You can’t fix stupid.
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Fix Stupid
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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Behaviour Derive Enough Life Many Need Out Probably Problem Story Wild Year
You 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 WHITE

Anymore Call Hear Joke Lose Mean People Pop Stage Start Tell Want

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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