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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.

Ron White

I begged the universe to make me a famous comedian, and it did. So I tend not to ask for any more.
RON WHITE

Beg Comedian Famous More Tend Universe
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’m not in the theatre, I’m in an open mic night or doing a guest set at the Comedy Club, or whatever, just trying to develop stuff.
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Club Comedy Devote Doing Guest Mic Open Stuff Theatre Try
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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I have a very fun life. I don’t recommend it for anybody else, but it sure has been fun for me.
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Else Fun Life Recommend Sure Very
Any time someone achieves success before they’ve earned it, it always comes back to haunt them.
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Achieve Any Back Come Earn Haunt Someone Time
There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong.
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Actual Beer Diet Drink Fat Guy Real Scotch Tequila Year
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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Comedy Create Engage Everybody Help Home Just Long More Stuff
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
Let’s face it: a lot of my material comes from the stuff that happens to me on the road.
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Come Face Happen Let Lot Material More Road Stuff
Comedy is all about the pause.
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Al Comedy Pause
I write all of my material. It’s all me.
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Mother, she likes the blue material just fine.
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Blue Fine Just Like Material Mother
Here’s how I operate. When I see something I like, 20 years later, I ask her brother for her phone number. She don’t even see me coming.
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Brother Come Later Number Operate Phone See Something
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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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.
RON WHITE

Alcoholic Drink People Say Work Workaholic

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