If I sit down to write a joke about, whatever, the polluted Gulf of Mexico, it comes out mundane to me.
RON WHITEI 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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If I’m not in the theatre, I’m in an open mic night or doing a guest set at the Comedy Club, or whatever, just trying to develop stuff.
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I started selling out comedy clubs before I got to town with no advertising. I was selling out theaters just on the rumor that I was going to be there.
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I go to more open mic nights than open mikers.
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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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I begged the universe to make me a famous comedian, and it did. So I tend not to ask for any more.
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The bulk of my fans are my age, and I’m aging at the same rate they are. That makes me relevant. They like hearing what I have to say. I work hard at it, but it’s addicting, really.
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I go through about 140 cities a year.
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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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When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.
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I would have rather been beat by a plumber than Kathy Griffin.
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I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade… And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
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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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There have been times in my life that I’ve had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.
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I don’t have a specific plan except for as long as people want to listen to me talk, I’m going to keep talking. I can’t imagine a life without doing standup.
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The only thing I really worry about is my live stand-up show because I have to answer to the fans.
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