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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 White

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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Actual Beer Diet Drink Fat Guy Real Scotch Tequila Year
I started selling out comedy clubs before I got to town with no advertising. I was selling out theaters just on the rumor that I was going to be there.
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Advertise Before Club Comedy Go Rumour Sell Start Theater
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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Anymore Call Hear Joke Lose Mean People Pop Stage Start Tell Want
My favorite bands are the Allman Brothers and Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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Band Brother Chill Favourite Hot People
I have a very fun life. I don’t recommend it for anybody else, but it sure has been fun for me.
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Else Fun Life Recommend Sure Very
You know, my first album, some of those jokes I’d done for twelve years because I couldn’t throw ’em out.
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Album Done First Now Some Throw Out Twelve Year
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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Famous Heard Made Material People Popular Stuff
I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative.
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Believe Collaborative Creative Everything Somewhat
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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Great Live Lot Rock Sound Star Travel
You can teach somebody how to be a brain surgeon, but you cannot teach them how to walk on a stage and make people laugh.
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Brain Laugh People Somebody Stage Surgeon Teach Walk
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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Care Good Idea Laugh Live Make Money Much People
My goal is just to become a better comedian.
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Become Better Comedian Goal Just
Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty… mine’s putting in an express lane.
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Abolish Death Express Lane Mine Other Penalty Put State
I was talking to a guy who was holding his 18-month-old daughter with the only limb he had left, and he had a smile on his face. I thought, ‘I’m not even a 10th of this man.’
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Daughter Face Guy Hold Left Limb Month Smile Talk Though
If I sit down to write a joke about, whatever, the polluted Gulf of Mexico, it comes out mundane to me.
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Come Country Down Gulf Joke Out Pollute Rite
My show is more storytelling now than it’s ever been. It’s what I’m good at.
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Beem Ever Good More Show Storytelling

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.

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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.

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