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.
RON WHITEIf I sit down to write a joke about, whatever, the polluted Gulf of Mexico, it comes out mundane to me.
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If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it’s being true to their nature… that’s what takes a long time to learn.
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Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin.
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I don’t watch Comedy Central. I don’t enjoy it.
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Donald Trump – and I don’t dislike Donald one single bit – has no idea how good the Mexican people are at building tunnels.
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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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I 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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People are saying that I’m an alcoholic, and that’s not true, because I only drink when I work, and I’m a workaholic.
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The Majestic Theatre in San Antone is as good as it gets.
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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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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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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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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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Everybody I know is a joke writer.
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I was a huge fan of comedy when I was a child.
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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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