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 a comedy fan when I was a little kid.
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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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Mother, she likes the blue material just fine.
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The only thing I really worry about is my live stand-up show because I have to answer to the fans.
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I really understood a lot more about comedy after listening to Bill Hicks, who died at 32 years old. He’s probably the best comedian who ever lived. Although you can’t say that because of Carlin, Cosby and Pryor.
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Ultimately I’m the writer for me, but also, anytime one of my friends gets stuck with a bit, they can call me, and I’m pretty good at helping them get there.
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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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That’s the beauty of being a straight-to-DVD star. It really helps you stay under the media’s radar.
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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 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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We always go out looking for live music after our shows.
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I don’t know who in my family thinks very fast at all, including me. The things that people see me do onstage are written, so it doesn’t have to be very quick if you have all day with a pen.
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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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Comedy is all about the pause.
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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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I’ve never been one to look up the ladder. I’ve always looked down the ladder. As long as there’s one guy down there, I’m fine.
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