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I’d rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.

Ron White

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
Diamonds – that’ll shut her up… for a minute!
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Diamond Minute Shut
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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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
I’m set up where I make a lot of money doing stand-up, and it’s easy.
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Lot Make Money Set Stand Up Ways
I was a comedy fan when I was a little kid.
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Comedy Kid Little
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 was by far the least popular of the Blue Collar crew when we started. There was a definite pecking order, and everybody knew it.
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Blue Collar Crew Everybody Knew Least Order Pack Popular
It never dawned on me that I had the option of becoming a comedian. I come from a little dirt street town in northwest Texas, and they really don’t talk about the arts there much on career day.
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Become Comedy Dirt Drawn Little Northwest Option Street Tear Town
If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it’s being true to their nature… that’s what takes a long time to learn.
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Big Comic Common Denominator Long Look Nature Success True
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
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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Fascinate First Football Game Hand Imagine Life Listen Made Syllable Talk Thing
My uncle was a preacher, and I used to go watch him preach. He was also funny, so I’m very ‘preacher-ish’ on stage, not by intent but because that’s where I learned to talk in front of people.
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Funny Intent Preach Preacher Stage Uncle Use Watch
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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Answer Fan Only Really Show Stand Think
You can’t fix stupid.
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Fix Stupid
My goal is just to become a better comedian.
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Become Better Comedian Goal Just
My brain is like a cross between a colander and a Lazy Susan – thin, slow, and it leaks.
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Between Brain Colander Cross Leak Slow
I don’t watch Comedy Central. I don’t enjoy it.
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Central Comedy Enjoy Watch
I would have rather been beat by a plumber than Kathy Griffin.
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Beat People Plumber Rather Would
I always wanted to be a popular comedian.
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Always Comedian Popular Want
I don’t have a specific plan except for as long as people want to listen to me talk, I’m going to keep talking. I can’t imagine a life without doing standup.
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Except Imagine Kep Life Listen Long People Plan Specific Talk
The only way to stay sharp is to do live shows. There is no part-time comedy.
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Comedy Live Only Part Sharp Show Stay Time Way
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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Bit Build Could Country Good Idea People President Single Tunnel
I’m not the judge of who that is, but I am a believer that no debt in the universe goes unpaid. If you try to buy early, you’ll pay late.
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Believe Debt Judge Late Universe Unpaidm Buy
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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Animate Bring Force Instead People Relax Stage Tend Thing
There’s not a pill you can take; there’s not a class you can go to. Stupid is forever.
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Class Forever Go Pill Stupid Take
Comedy is great because there’s no overhead.
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Comedy Great No Overhead

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