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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

I would have rather been beat by a plumber than Kathy Griffin.
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Beat People Plumber Rather Would
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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Around Comfortable Laugh Listen Make Onstage Story Talk Tell Twenty Unable
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
Pace, rhythm and timing. Pace, rhythm and timing is what it’s about. The content’s got to be great, but then it’s got to be delivered. It’s a tricky thing to do, and it takes a lot of work.
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Content Deliver Face Pace People Rhythm Time
But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It’s like anything else. It’s a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.
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Exercise Exposure Harder Like More Much Muscle Work Writer
If I’m not in the theatre, I’m in an open mic night or doing a guest set at the Comedy Club, or whatever, just trying to develop stuff.
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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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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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Always Best Done Happen Little One Pony Stuff Trick
The next time you have a thought… let it go.
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Let Go Next Thought Time
Mother, she likes the blue material just fine.
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Blue Fine Just Like Material Mother
There’s not a pill you can take; there’s not a class you can go to. Stupid is forever.
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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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Been Down Fine Look One Ladder
There have been times when I played more than others, but I’ve been a road comic for a quarter of a century, so I’ve always played golf on the road because you have a lot of time to kill.
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Always Been Century Comic More Other Play Quater Time
Television is 15 hour days. Movies are 18 hour days. And it’s 18 hours of doing not a thing.
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Day Doing Eighteen Fifteen Hour Movie Television Thing
I think the world has their own good, clean, Christian comedy. They don’t need my help.
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Christian Clean Comedy Good Help Need Think World
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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Cigar Collection Go Great Imply Last Smoke

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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