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The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

245 - Ron White (Live from SXSW)

The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

Stuart Goldsmith

Jokes, Society & Culture, Widdicombe, Learn, Comedy, Performing Arts, Burr, How To, Carr, Acaster, Cope, Writing, Interview, Persona, Arts, In-depth

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

One of the most recognisable faces of the "Blue Collar Comedy Tour", Ron "Tater Salad" White is adored by fans of his caustic wit and everyday calls-it-like-he-sees-it Texan charm. We talk about his discovery of the part of his brain that went on to make him his fortune, about what it means to murder a crowd, and what it's like to be a joke when he's working on you... Find more of Ron White:@ron_whitewww.tatersalad.com Learn more about the podcast:@comcompodwww.comedianscomedian.com Sign-up to membership for exclusive extra content and access to the private extra podcast, including collaborative critique of new comedians' work, and "You Interview Stu":www.comedianscomedian.com/donate And come and see Stu's standup tour now!

11/05/2018 Bristol, Hen & Chickens

12/05/2018 Bath Rondo Theatre

16/05/2018 Norwich, Epic Studios

18/05/2018 Northampton Royal & Derngate

19/05/2018 Warwick Arts Centre (Coventry)

20/05/2018 Shrewsbury, Henry Tudor House

23/05/2018 Swindon Arts Centre

26/05/2018 Farnham Maltings

30/05/2018 Aldershot, West End Centre

01/06/2018 Sheffield, The Lescar

02/06/2018 York, The Basement

03/06/2018 Newcastle – The Stand

04/06/2018 Leeds, Duke Studios

08/06/2018 Southampton, Hanger Farm

09/06/2018 Cambridge Junction

12/06/2018 Edinburgh, The Monkey Barrel

13/06/2018 Glasgow, The Stand

15/06/2018 Birmingham Glee

17/06/2018 Brighton Komedia

21-23 June London, Soho Theatre

29/06/2018 Tringe Festival



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0:18.0

Hello, Stue here. This isn't an ad. This is me telling you that you have got to get hold of a copy of Adam Blooms book, Finding Your Comic Genius. It's just so great, and I want everyone to buy it for everyone else for Christmas. We discuss it in detail on episode 437 and at the time of recording this it has 66 5-star reviews out of 66 reviews on Amazon.

0:21.2

So go and find Adam Bloom's book, Repeat. This is not an ad and I'm not

0:24.7

being remunerated. Or remunerated. I can never get that right.

0:28.9

This is a podcast from comedians comedian.com.com. This is the Comedians comedian pod-

0:47.0

Welcome to the show I'm Stuart

0:50.0

Welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith and this is the comedians comedian the only

0:54.5

podcast about comedy today I'm live at South by Southwest talking to Ron White

0:59.5

who a few of you will know will begin this episode talking about a slightly ill-fated trip to the lesser square theatre that he did recently.

1:07.0

So if you're in the UK you may or may not know Ron.

1:10.0

Everyone in America will have heard of Ron. He was one of the most famous comics on the blue-collar comedy tour with Jeff Foxworthy and all.

1:17.0

And he is just known for being a sort of Texan voice, a young guy who's in the Navy briefly, fascinating

1:27.1

sort of background life story, made good and now in that position that we might

1:31.4

in the UK associate with someone like Mickey Flanagan whereby he can

1:35.1

sort of in a twinkling way he can show off about having made money and receive nothing but

1:40.5

love and warmth for it.

1:42.1

Very very funny. This show I'm going to warn you at the top. At the end of this episode he closes with an example of a joke that he refers to. The joke is very graphic. You will spot an initial reference to it and then he

1:55.4

mentions it a few times and then at the end one of the audience questions someone asks him to deliver

1:59.1

the joke. I'll warn you again beforehand. It is really graphic so consider yourself word but with that in mind I

2:06.0

really feel that we managed to get some quite tender and quite sweet stuff out of Ron I certainly enjoyed meeting him so I hope you

2:15.1

enjoy this interview with Mr Ron White. Thank you had no idea who I was. Well, that's it.

2:24.0

Thanks.

2:25.0

It's nice if you'd admit you had no idea who I was.

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