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 WHITEYou 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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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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I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative.
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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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There have been times in my life that I’ve had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.
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I’m definitely guilty of thinking something is funny but thinking the audience won’t. Then three years later I will finally try it and it’ll kill them. I got to give them more credit.
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The Majestic Theatre in San Antone is as good as it gets.
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I would have rather been beat by a plumber than Kathy Griffin.
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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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My show is more storytelling now than it’s ever been. It’s what I’m good at.
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Everybody I know is a joke writer.
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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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I was a comedy fan when I was a little kid.
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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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Comedy is great because there’s no overhead.
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I get e-mail from all over the world, and from lawyers and doctors and whoever – plumbers and drywall hangers.
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