Everybody I know is a joke writer.
RON WHITEI was talking to a guy who was holding his 18-month-old daughter with the only limb he had left, and he had a smile on his face. I thought, ‘I’m not even a 10th of this man.’
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A lot of people can find something to laugh at in my humor, I guess.
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Anything I write that I consider stage-quality work, I won’t give my TV show. I put it in my live show.
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Ultimately I’m the writer for me, but also, anytime one of my friends gets stuck with a bit, they can call me, and I’m pretty good at helping them get there.
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I’ve got a great cigar collection – it’s actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn’t going to smoke every last one of ’em.
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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 have a very fun life. I don’t recommend it for anybody else, but it sure has been fun for me.
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But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It’s like anything else. It’s a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.
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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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My biggest pet peeve, I guess, is other comedians criticizing Larry the Cable Guy.
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I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you’re a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level.
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I was a comedy fan when I was a little kid.
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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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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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I always wanted to be a popular comedian.
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It never dawned on me that I had the option of becoming a comedian. I come from a little dirt street town in northwest Texas, and they really don’t talk about the arts there much on career day.
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