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.
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.
More Ron White Quotes
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I was by far the least popular of the Blue Collar crew when we started. There was a definite pecking order, and everybody knew it.
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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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The next time you have a thought… let it go.
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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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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 write these shows one joke at a time. There’s no continuity. I do try to figure an order to the stories, but there’s not continuity.
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I guarantee there’s people who watch television who have no idea how complicated it is to make a television show.
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There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong.
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I don’t watch Comedy Central. I don’t enjoy it.
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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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I always wanted to be a popular comedian.
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I do live like a rock star, but it’s not as great as it sounds. It’s a lot of traveling.
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I was a little one-trick pony. I do what I’ve always done. That’s really where my best stuff comes from. I don’t know how it happens. It just happens.
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My opening acts are always really strong because I need a guy who can take on a big, big crowd. Which is not that easy to do.
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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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