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 WHITEPace, 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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I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you’re a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level.
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Comedy is all about the pause.
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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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I go through about 140 cities a year.
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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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I guarantee there’s people who watch television who have no idea how complicated it is to make a television show.
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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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Any time someone achieves success before they’ve earned it, it always comes back to haunt them.
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I’ve got a role in the new Billy Bob Thornton movie that Billy Bob wrote and is going to direct called ‘Jayne Mansfield’s Car.’ I only have four scenes, but I have as much dialogue as anybody in the movie.
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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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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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As long as I stay engaged with everybody else, then I’ll create more comedy. It’s just when I shut off and stay at home… What helps me is just to keep moving.
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TV is a hard job. You work 15 hours a day. People tell you what to do. I hate to do it.
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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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Everybody I know is a joke writer.
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