Name: Joe Rogan Experience #888 - Ron White
Uploaded: 2016-12-23T02:15:28.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #888 - Ron White' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-12-23. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #888 - Ron White' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-12-23. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #888 - Ron White

sound effects or was that you that was me okay all right i thought you i
thought you paid for
that all right we're live ron white hey joe look like you're ready to take
notes i signed this you
know you you shove some paperwork at me when i don't have my glasses i don't
even know what it
says you have glasses on i do yeah i do oh yeah i do yeah and i'm not sure but
i think i've just
agreed to you know you're fine would trust me we wouldn't do anything terrible
to you no you're my
friend i know i love you i love you too we have a mutual admiration society
that we don't let anybody
else in it's so been so nice people want in but them them it's been so nice
having you run a store
man i gotta tell you it's really fun yeah it's great having you around too man
it's a our little
home base up there it's a hoot it is right it's like uh you work on everything
there and then
venture forth right yeah it's a spot yeah i'm trying to you know i've just got
this big quandary
now whether to even do another special or what it would do for me and you know
netflix is offering
me money but they're not offering me big you know huge money they're offering
me regular money
and trying to figure out if you want to yeah you know it takes me i'm not like
uh some comics you
know some comics should spit out of hour a year and uh and i don't you know i
it takes me three
years to write a new record you know that but it's good you know but it's you
know but it takes me
forever to do it i'm just not that prolific i guess anymore that's the big
debate with comedians
like how much time should you wait and tom papa and i were just talking about
it and i've talked
about it with burr and with louis ck and a bunch of different guys and louis is
doing like one a
year for a while but he stopped doing that and i think he kind of agrees now
that when you do
one a year it's almost like um it's a special full of like uh adolescent
premises yeah yeah and i've
always found that my stuff ripens well you know on the vine if i leave it there
if i pick it too early
you know i used to do a bit that was on my last album and the punchline is not
even on the album
the punchline i wrote later which was uh it's about my wife buying me a bicycle
thinking i might ride it
for you know health reasons and it's for sale and if you're looking for a
bicycle it's a great deal
it's got 750 yards on it it was a demo when i bought it had 350 yards already
on it but i put the other
400 yards on it myself that was the whole joke now here's the punchline and if
you'd like to buy the
bicycle just go to my house in beverly hills and it's 400 yards from there so i
didn't even have the
punchline i don't even know what i thought was funny about the other part but
when i went back and
listened to it i'm like i could start doing that bit again because they still
don't know how it ends
if i wanted to you know mitch headberg did that he had a bit on his album and
he goes this is a bit
from my old album and he does the bit he goes this is the part i left out oh
really and this is the
new punchline yeah that's hilarious yeah yeah it's uh it's a funny thing you
know development of
material like you're the only one who really knows when it's done and sometimes
you'll have something
i've had bits that i didn't put on specials that i was doing i was like this
thing is not just it's not
ready and then maybe two specials later i'll stick it in somewhere right yeah
so i don't know you know
that netflix wants an hour i really think netflix special should be 30 minutes
i re i really do because
i would do a 30 minute special and not and not burn an hour of material on it
uh and you know i i
go back i watched yours the other day which was great and uh and i watched um
oh the uh ali wong's
special and it was just long you know it it's just long an hour's a long time
uh for for a special
and and as much as i was impressed by ali and i still am impressed by ali uh
but i've been pressed
with what i see in the club right when i go back and watch her special i see
what kind of confidence
that brought her that success of that thing had made her a better comic you
know she now she really
has a great i mean a be even better presence on stage and works even slower and
and more commanding
but i can you know that's what i learned from watching it was you know that
kind of that kind
of success makes you better you know yeah for sure for her i mean she's sort of
emerging right now
you know she's one of those people that you know people start to talk about she's
very very funny
she's really cool too really nice person but it's just nasty and funny on stage
right vicious
and i don't know her because now she's got a kid so as soon as she gets off
stage she's out of there
so i talked to her on stage a couple of times when she was bringing me up you
know yeah she's very friendly
yeah yeah i don't know man i'd like an hour i'd like an hour i'd like a good
hour special
you know maybe you just don't want to i'm cheap you just don't want to do it i
don't want to do the
work man it's so daunting to put it i mean my last special was an hour and 20
minutes and i and that's
just because how that's how long it was and when i when i sold it i'm like i
don't want to go edit it
you know it works like that you can have the whole thing and then i'm standing
there naked you know
i could have gotten away with 48 minutes uh you know on because it was on
television and nobody saw it
on tv because it was on cmt nobody watches cmt so nobody's even heard the last
album and i don't do
it you know isn't country music television isn't that real popular was it not
called country music
television anymore they just call it cmt but it started out yeah yeah i think
it still stands for
country music television but they're trying to do a bunch of other now too
right they try to do you
know they did a i did i had a special with them once a year and i would do then
i would just have to come
it with 15 minutes and uh which was doable you know i that that i could
actually put on tv most of it i
shouldn't even put on tv but uh but that was great it was the salute to the
troops thing and raise money
and awareness for good stuff and then they quit doing it and uh somehow bought
my special and uh but so i
just you know i if i do a bit from it you know it kills like nobody's heard it
so i really don't think
anybody really heard it it only sold 12 copies so those people you know 12 no
yeah they know that i
have no idea how many that's we were talking about that before the show about
like buying things like
nobody buys comedy albums anymore they don't they just don't make any money
right like none yeah and
you know what and i just started uh uh watching stuff on netflix the other day
because i just wanted
to watch some of the specials of some of the people i knew up there to see what
they were doing you
know what what they're working on and and uh now why would you buy a record you
can just flip it over to
netflix and watch it you know well i like listening to shit in my car i like
when people release things
on itunes yeah did that my my uh my best uh uh comedy album store story and i
don't mean this to be
mean or anything else uh but it was uh i was watching the red the record sales
because my records was selling
and then uh then dane cook comes in and he just blows by me and i'm like who's
this guy because i'm
i'm not a la guy i'm a road guy you know we don't know what's going on out here
nor do we give a
shit and uh but i thought well it must be like so i was at a bookstore and i
saw it and i thought well
i'm gonna i'm gonna buy it and see what it see what it's like so literally i'll
listen to it on the
way home when i got home i pulled it out threw it in the trash not not to be
mean but just because i don't
keep things i don't use and i knew i wouldn't listen to it again and i wasn't
going to give it
to somebody else to listen to and so i don't need it anymore it's uh it we've
run our you know run our
thing and and not to say anything bad about uh dang because that's been plenty
of bad things have been
said but and uh but i just that was so un into it that i mean if that's what
they're doing out there
then uh they're getting away with murder because those aren't punch lines i'm
sorry to tell you well
that was a weird time he locked into some weird thing where he sort of appealed
to young girls
like he did comedy design for young girls no no that's not you it's not me
either yeah there's not
a lot of us well you know he had that fascinating stage presence too and you
know just really walk
on stage and take command of anything i you know i i don't know if he can still
do it but at one time
i'd watch him i'm like you like him or not if you're a comic you could probably
learn something
from watching him it was a young comic you know just walk up there and start
doing it stare him
down don't be timid you know and he was great straight stage present but the
content i was like why
what what i don't get it i don't get it why don't we but and now i guess it's
turned around on him i mean
it's not i don't know i don't know well it turned around on him when that whole
louis ck plagiarism
thing came out and there's a lot of shit going on there was was he supposed to
have sold something
stole something from louis oh yeah like a lot of things yeah before louis was
famous yep oh yeah well
that's when it's easy yeah yeah louis was a while they're young well he wasn't
young louis was older
than him but louis he made it first he broke through first right and then it
became a giant
controversy like louis even addressed it on his television show like he had
dane on as a guest
on a show and they kind of went over it it was very weird like louis did he's
so nice like the way he
handled it was so nice like he wasn't mean about it at all right he's not like
you and mencia well
that was a difference that was just the best thing ever that was ever you had
every comic in the country
just cheering your name man go get him joe and and you're such a badass what's
he going to do slap you
you know you can either listen to it or he can beat you up or whatever you want
what are you going to
do that was the worst i've ever seen though i've seen i've seen plagiarists
before i've seen guys get
away with stealing people's but i've never seen someone that blatant he was a
bully about it like
he would do your he would go on in front of you and do your like he would bring
you up
at the store and do your closing bit before he brought you up man yeah i think
it's one of those
things like a serial killer wants to get caught you know you think that's what
it is yeah i do
i really do i really do well you know that the only thing that matters to me
really is i mean or the
thing i'm most proud of is that i'm respected by my peers that i didn't get
here in some cheap way
cheap way i did my 30 years and uh in nine million clubs and 12 000 shows and
and if i didn't have
that i don't know if i'd be able to show my face around here no you wouldn't
that's all there is i
think is to i think for people like us it's probably the most important thing
because there's so few of
us i mean what is there a thousand working comedians is there even a thousand i
mean there might not even
be a thousand yeah yeah it's a it's a tiny tiny subculture tiny and out of that
subculture maybe
300 of them i want to see you know yeah maybe maybe maybe right so you're one
of 300 people out of 300
million that's a that's a tiny amount yeah i'm getting all i'm getting buff i'm
getting buff just
sitting here you get fired up right there i sure did i wish we brought you tequila
man
ah i'm glad i really if i would have sat here and drank it with you and then i'd
have been oh
now i had to get that range rover back to back to la that's what uber's for
yeah that's you got some
good goddamn tequila i love the fact that you sell your own tequila well you
know what we wouldn't have
done it but the rovesque fa