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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.

Ron White

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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Across Bridge Build Comic Kinda One People Through Two Walk
I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you’re a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level.
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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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Class Forever Go Pill Stupid Take
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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I go to more open mic nights than open mikers.
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Mic Milker More Night Open
Let’s face it: a lot of my material comes from the stuff that happens to me on the road.
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Come Face Happen Let Lot Material More Road Stuff
There’s no backlog of people we can fire for no reason and act as if they don’t exist.
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Act Backlog Exist Fire People Reason
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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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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Bit Build Could Country Good Idea People President Single Tunnel
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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If I see someone out there mouthing the words to a bit, I’m not having fun.
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Fun Have Mouth See Someone Word
The next time you have a thought… let it go.
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Let Go Next Thought Time
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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Beg Comedian Famous More Tend Universe
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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Hard Laugh Love Make People Serious Stage Still Take Walk Work
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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I don’t like to do material people have heard. Now, they like to hear material that they know, because that’s the stuff that made me famous, and, unfortunately, I don’t do a ton of it.
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