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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.

Ron White

You can teach somebody how to be a brain surgeon, but you cannot teach them how to walk on a stage and make people laugh.
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I’m set up where I make a lot of money doing stand-up, and it’s easy.
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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
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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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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I get e-mail from all over the world, and from lawyers and doctors and whoever – plumbers and drywall hangers.
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All of my comedian friends are some of the best joke writers in the world.
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When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.
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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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Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin.
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Anybody Anything Could Literacy Penetrate Say Skin
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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I go to more open mic nights than open mikers.
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Mic Milker More Night Open
I love Cincinnati, but you can keep that spaghetti chili product!
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Chill Critical Keep Product Spaghetti
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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I don’t do talk shows or go on Dr. Phil’s show. He’s a friend of mine, and, no, he doesn’t give me any advice. He doesn’t give solicited advice.
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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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