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.
RON WHITEI was by far the least popular of the Blue Collar crew when we started. There was a definite pecking order, and everybody knew it.
More Ron White Quotes
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People, when they go on stage, tend to be animated and try to force things out instead of relaxing and bringing it in.
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The next time you have a thought… let it go.
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I was so in love with the idea of making people laugh for a living that I didn’t care what I had to do to get there. Or how much money I was going to make when I did get there.
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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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Everybody I know is a joke writer.
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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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Think of The Rontourage as the Ron White Channel, where you can see us getting into trouble in all kinds of different places.
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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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I had the right to remain silent… but I didn’t have the ability.
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You can’t fix stupid.
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I was a huge fan of comedy when I was a child.
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I don’t do talk shows or go on Dr. Phil’s show. He’s a friend of mine, and, no, he doesn’t give me any advice. He doesn’t give solicited advice.
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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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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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When I was 20, I used to go around telling stories, and I knew where I was comfortable – onstage, talking, making ’em laugh and listen to the weirdest things. I liked being the center of attention.
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