I had the right to remain silent… but I didn’t have the ability.
RON WHITEThere 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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I’ve gathered some of my close musical and comedian friends, and we’re going to see if we can’t bring a few laughs to these soldiers, raise some money, and hopefully lift their spirits.
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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 still love to walk on stage and make people laugh, and I work very, very hard at it, and I take it seriously.
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Diamonds – that’ll shut her up… for a minute!
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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 love Cincinnati, but you can keep that spaghetti chili product!
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I don’t have a specific plan except for as long as people want to listen to me talk, I’m going to keep talking. I can’t imagine a life without doing standup.
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I write these shows one joke at a time. There’s no continuity. I do try to figure an order to the stories, but there’s not continuity.
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I was considered by my peers to be a good comedian. So that’s all I ever strived to do was get some recognition from my peers.
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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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The next time you have a thought… let it go.
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I was a huge fan of comedy when I was a child.
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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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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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My shows are not all-the-way filthy, but they can be.
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