“I don’t want to be drunk in pub-lic. I want to be drunk in a bar.” ~ Ron White

@@helensarkisian7491 “They THREW me into pub-ic. Arrest them.”

I love that one!

"Which is convenient, cause that's where we're heading"

This is probably one of my favorite bits by Ron.

Exactly this. In stand up comedy ... for the most part is creating a premise and turning it into a joke.. then testing if it's funny, then mastering the delivery of that joke. Also there are others who are great at improv. An easy analogy is with Rapping/Hip Hop. A rapper who writes and takes the time to work out the kinks before the final song is the stand up comedian. an improve rapper/free stylist is the improv comic. Both of them are rappers/comics.. there's just a difference on their approach to the art.

Oh for sure. They test on the road and refine before doing their specials.

Yeah like everyone lol carlin was the first to even recycle new material every couple of years lol

Yup. They use the smaller venues to work on their material. Time punchlines, test new jokes, etc. When it’s time to film for Netflix, they’ve got all the kinks worked out and could put out a nice set.

The problem is, the unspoken rule these days is that once you commit your act to a recorded special, that act is dead and it's time to start working on new material. George Carlin really started that and most everyone has followed suit. The worst shows I've seen are the ones where a large portion of the crowd has already heard the jokes before. That's what they were saying they thought Ron White had done, toured with an act people had already seen before.

They put him in Public!

They call me "tater tot"

@@walker1812 Tater Salad

Right!!

"I don't think so, Scooter!"

Yeah, it's the opposite of how music works lol One has practiced the material on the crowd then does their special and the other puts out an album then tours

@@510tuber you’re taking what I said out of context so you can try to seem right. Both tour with the same material and do it over and over do they not? Comedians will tour with a “new” hour over and over. Literally almost no difference lol.

@@510tuber bands play new music to crowds all the time.

@@Justin-bo5pgnot usually on a world tour. If they are playing small venues then sure. But Taylor swift for example isn’t changing up the set list for each city. When big comedians tour, that is their set. It’s their act of course it’s going to be the same.

@miekaash6831 Taylor Swift's Eras tours is a specific tour where she's playing and singing her prior albums. It's advertised as a greatest hits tour. When you get to that tier. Metallica, Swift, The Stones, KISS, Alice Cooper the legacy bands they play greatest hits but usually bands play in support of an upcoming or recently released album.

That is Ron off his game. He use to funny AF kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pMuFlLaFuLGqipc.html

Definitely need to watch his "Tater Salad" joke, that is his his most famous one

Not really. Very very blue collar comedy. Funny but far from funny as fuck.

@@viking_nor better than white collar jokes.

@@viking_nor hes near the top. Gtfo

Tater Salad!

I came here to say the same thing. :)

They caught 'The Tater." 😁

Hell yeah

Goats

'Blue Collar Comedy Tour' Git er done!

@@brandonbrown821 why not

I did at the Fox in Atlanta 100 years ago

I wanted to write all this. They really are like musicians, most write a solid set then tour with it.

@@felixfungle-bung4688 oh yeah, even if it’s a late nite tv interview here, or a 15 minute set at a comedy club there - they’re always working on it, very much like a musician.

Yep, although different comedians have slightly different approaches. If anyone gets a chance, watch the discussion called "Talking Funny" with Jerry Seinfeld, Ricky Gervais, Chris Rock, and Louis C.K. It's really entertaining, and they debate this very topic.

He is a recovering alcoholic. He couldn't stop drinking. See Joe Rogan podcast with Ron He talks about getting sober. He had tried to stop and couldn't. It's a interesting story.

@Clint Rench yeah the iowaska he was talking about seemed to really change him for the better

They threw him into the public! 🤣

Jo Koy is so funny!

There are exceptions like Andrew Schultz who did an entire tour doing crowdwork, no premade jokes.

@@MrProthall he’s the only comedian I can think of that is able to do that

Some comedians thrive of crowd work look at Andrew Shultz

@@toastmasteraj4208 some but even then that’s not the main part of their act

Generally they change out some jokes and they change up the order.

It's life experience comedians can express it through jokes

Look at Bill Byrd you can see him telling the same jokes on The Tonight show and every other show that's a little ridiculous to think they make up a whole bucket new line of s*** every time I think think.

Chappelle had a crowd cursing him out asking for their money back when trying new material. The only guy I know that always had new shit was Norm Mcdonald 💯

May he rest in peace

He still is, but he used to too.

"there's six ducks outside...and they all want sunchips!"

Eh.. out of all the blue collar guys Ron is by far the funniest.. I wouldn't regress. But that's my opinion, n comedy is subjective, I'd assume your a bit more elderly than I and southern by your opinion

Yes I am but good comedy is good comedy.

@@colleen2225 true.. I used to watch the blue collar tour all the time. I just prefer darker comedy now. Stuff that would usually shock and offend a lot of ppl

Have you heard of Bill Burr.

@@colleen2225 lol yes.. I think it would be difficult not to run into Bill on KZfaq. I listen to quite a bit of comedy so most ppl I've at least heard of if not heard their material. Bill is great.. but even he is kinda tame compared to Anthony jeselnik, doug stanhope, Louis ck, Jimmy Carr, Jim jefferies

How did they not start with tater salad

We were lucky to see Robin Williams at the Comedy Store one night and he wasn’t on the menu. We had gone there to see Louie Anderson, who was hilarious. Sam Kenison came out and was awful. People got up and left it was so bad. A couple of times he said Robin Williams was there and then he started yelling crazy stuff that wasn’t close to being funny and more people left. We decided to stay and we were so glad we did because suddenly Robin Williams walked out on stage. He was amazing. I don’t think I ever laughed that hard. I felt badly for the people who left but understood why they did. Unfortunately they missed seeing the master at work.