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.
RON WHITEI begged the universe to make me a famous comedian, and it did. So I tend not to ask for any more.
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The only way to stay sharp is to do live shows. There is no part-time comedy.
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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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When I was 20, I used to go around telling stories, and I knew where I was comfortable – onstage, talking, making ’em laugh and listen to the weirdest things. I liked being the center of attention.
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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.
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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 had the right to remain silent… but I didn’t have the ability.
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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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The next time you have a thought… let it go.
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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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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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A lot of people can find something to laugh at in my humor, I guess.
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I begged the universe to make me a famous comedian, and it did. So I tend not to ask for any more.
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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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Everybody I know is a joke writer.
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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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