If I sit down to write a joke about, whatever, the polluted Gulf of Mexico, it comes out mundane to me.
RON WHITEMy biggest pet peeve, I guess, is other comedians criticizing Larry the Cable Guy.
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A lot of people can find something to laugh at in my humor, I guess.
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I go through about 140 cities a year.
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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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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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You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.
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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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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’d rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.
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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 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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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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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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I started selling out comedy clubs before I got to town with no advertising. I was selling out theaters just on the rumor that I was going to be there.
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I was a huge fan of comedy when I was a child.
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I didn’t get where I am today by worryin’ about how I’d feel tomorrow.
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