I’ve asked these guys in rock bands with all the 18-wheelers driving to the venue how they make money. I just don’t understand it. But I don’t understand a lot of things.
RON WHITEI was always a funny guy. I don’t think anybody that makes it to this level of stand-up wasn’t a funny guy when they were young.
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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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There’s not a pill you can take; there’s not a class you can go to. Stupid is forever.
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When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.
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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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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 believe that a bad Super Bowl halftime show is still better than a soccer game.
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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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The only way to stay sharp is to do live shows. There is no part-time comedy.
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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.
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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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The first thing I ever got my hands on was Andy Griffith’s ‘What It Was, Was Football.’ I was fascinated with the fact that every syllable made it funny, and I would laugh even though I didn’t know what any of it meant.
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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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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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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 was a comedy fan when I was a little kid.
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