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.
RON WHITEI’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.
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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.
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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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Here’s how I operate. When I see something I like, 20 years later, I ask her brother for her phone number. She don’t even see me coming.
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I 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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Any time someone achieves success before they’ve earned it, it always comes back to haunt them.
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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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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’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 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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There’s no backlog of people we can fire for no reason and act as if they don’t exist.
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I’ve gathered some of my close musical and comedian friends, and we’re going to see if we can’t bring a few laughs to these soldiers, raise some money, and hopefully lift their spirits.
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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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There 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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I was considered by my peers to be a good comedian. So that’s all I ever strived to do was get some recognition from my peers.
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If I see someone out there mouthing the words to a bit, I’m not having fun.
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