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.
RON WHITELet’s face it: a lot of my material comes from the stuff that happens to me on the road.
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My opening acts are always really strong because I need a guy who can take on a big, big crowd. Which is not that easy to do.
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I would have rather been beat by a plumber than Kathy Griffin.
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I was always a funny guy. I don’t think anybody that makes it to this level of stand-up wasn’t a funny guy when they were young.
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It went from Bob Newhart to Flip Wilson to Bill Cosby to Richard Pryor to George Carlin to Cheech and Chong. I had all these records.
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I’ve been married a few times. I’m not good at it.
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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 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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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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Somebody the other day had a review, called me ‘America’s reprobate.’ And I don’t even know what that means, but I kinda like the way it sounds.
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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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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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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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I always found that the closer I got to who I really am, on stage, the more they responded to it.
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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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My biggest pet peeve, I guess, is other comedians criticizing Larry the Cable Guy.
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