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.
RON WHITEI’m set up where I make a lot of money doing stand-up, and it’s easy.
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That’s the beauty of being a straight-to-DVD star. It really helps you stay under the media’s radar.
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I’m not the judge of who that is, but I am a believer that no debt in the universe goes unpaid. If you try to buy early, you’ll pay late.
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Mother, she likes the blue material just fine.
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I go through about 140 cities a year.
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I was a little one-trick pony. I do what I’ve always done. That’s really where my best stuff comes from. I don’t know how it happens. It just happens.
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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.
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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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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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If I see someone out there mouthing the words to a bit, I’m not having fun.
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Ultimately I’m the writer for me, but also, anytime one of my friends gets stuck with a bit, they can call me, and I’m pretty good at helping them get there.
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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 believe that a bad Super Bowl halftime show is still better than a soccer game.
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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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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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Comedy is all about the pause.
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