My biggest pet peeve, I guess, is other comedians criticizing Larry the Cable Guy.
RON WHITEThere 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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You can teach somebody how to be a brain surgeon, but you cannot teach them how to walk on a stage and make people laugh.
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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.
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As long as I stay engaged with everybody else, then I’ll create more comedy. It’s just when I shut off and stay at home… What helps me is just to keep moving.
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The only way to stay sharp is to do live shows. There is no part-time comedy.
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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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There’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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Movies are boring. It’s like watching paint dry. I did a little role in a movie, and it was eight lines. I was there for three days. It’s just horrible.
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The next time you have a thought… let it go.
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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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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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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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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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A lot of people can find something to laugh at in my humor, I guess.
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Any time someone achieves success before they’ve earned it, it always comes back to haunt them.
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I’d rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.
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