Let’s face it: a lot of my material comes from the stuff that happens to me on the road.
RON WHITEIt 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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TV is a hard job. You work 15 hours a day. People tell you what to do. I hate to do it.
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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.
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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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I consider it an honor and a privilege to give back however I can for the many sacrifices of these incredibly brave men and women.
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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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Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin.
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I really understood a lot more about comedy after listening to Bill Hicks, who died at 32 years old. He’s probably the best comedian who ever lived. Although you can’t say that because of Carlin, Cosby and Pryor.
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I’m not willing to drag my fans down a road I don’t believe in. That’s just my one little principle. I’ve only got one, and that’s it.
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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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I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative.
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I would have rather been beat by a plumber than Kathy Griffin.
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I don’t know who in my family thinks very fast at all, including me. The things that people see me do onstage are written, so it doesn’t have to be very quick if you have all day with a pen.
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I’ve got a role in the new Billy Bob Thornton movie that Billy Bob wrote and is going to direct called ‘Jayne Mansfield’s Car.’ I only have four scenes, but I have as much dialogue as anybody in the movie.
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There have been times in my life that I’ve had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.
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I loved listening to laughter even as a little kid.
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