I was desperate for new material, so anything I can write a joke about that works is in the act. No matter who it offends, or who it bothers – doesn’t matter if its something my wife hates.
RON WHITEI was a little one-trick pony. I do what I’ve always done. That’s really where my best stuff comes from. I don’t know how it happens. It just happens.
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I really understood a lot more about comedy after listening to Bill Hicks, who died at 32 years old. He’s probably the best comedian who ever lived. Although you can’t say that because of Carlin, Cosby and Pryor.
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I don’t think we have a surplus of fine educators in this country that we can just start dropping them for no reason whatsoever.
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I’m set up where I make a lot of money doing stand-up, and it’s easy.
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You know, my first album, some of those jokes I’d done for twelve years because I couldn’t throw ’em out.
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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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I always wanted to be a popular comedian.
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I was by far the least popular of the Blue Collar crew when we started. There was a definite pecking order, and everybody knew it.
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Comedy is great because there’s no overhead.
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I guarantee there’s people who watch television who have no idea how complicated it is to make a television show.
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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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The way my brain processes information is quite odd. I mean, I have Attention Deficit Disorder and another learning disability I can’t even spell. I don’t even have a high school diploma. I’m smart, but you can’t prove it on paper.
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I think the world has their own good, clean, Christian comedy. They don’t need my help.
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I loved listening to laughter even as a little kid.
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I 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.
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You can’t fix stupid.
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Television is 15 hour days. Movies are 18 hour days. And it’s 18 hours of doing not a thing.
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I think honest communication, no matter where it comes from, is positive for a relationship.
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That’s the beauty of being a straight-to-DVD star. It really helps you stay under the media’s radar.
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I consider it an honor and a privilege to give back however I can for the many sacrifices of these incredibly brave men and women.
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If you become famous and don’t have a live show to back it up, they’re not going to pay you any money.
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There’s no backlog of people we can fire for no reason and act as if they don’t exist.
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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.
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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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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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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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Pace, rhythm and timing. Pace, rhythm and timing is what it’s about. The content’s got to be great, but then it’s got to be delivered. It’s a tricky thing to do, and it takes a lot of work.
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