My biggest pet peeve, I guess, is other comedians criticizing Larry the Cable Guy.
RON WHITEI 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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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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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 go to more open mic nights than open mikers.
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My uncle was a preacher, and I used to go watch him preach. He was also funny, so I’m very ‘preacher-ish’ on stage, not by intent but because that’s where I learned to talk in front of people.
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Comedy is all about the pause.
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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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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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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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I go through about 140 cities a year.
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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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My favorite bands are the Allman Brothers and Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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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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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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I didn’t get where I am today by worryin’ about how I’d feel tomorrow.
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Diamonds – that’ll shut her up… for a minute!
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