My life has been wild enough to derive all of the stories you need out of it. I’ve been through many, many years of behavioral problems, so I don’t really look outside for stories.
RON WHITEMy 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 had the right to remain silent… but I didn’t have the ability.
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It went from Bob Newhart to Flip Wilson to Bill Cosby to Richard Pryor to George Carlin to Cheech and Chong. I had all these records.
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The only thing I really worry about is my live stand-up show because I have to answer to the fans.
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Television is 15 hour days. Movies are 18 hour days. And it’s 18 hours of doing not a thing.
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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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All I know how to do is take what’s on my mind and spit it out funny. I don’t know what else I could do besides comedy.
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Movies are boring. It’s like watching paint dry. I did a little role in a movie, and it was eight lines. I was there for three days. It’s just horrible.
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I would have rather been beat by a plumber than Kathy Griffin.
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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 love Cincinnati, but you can keep that spaghetti chili product!
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I go through about 140 cities a year.
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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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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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I get e-mail from all over the world, and from lawyers and doctors and whoever – plumbers and drywall hangers.
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