#888 - Ron White

Ron White (0:00)

Effects.

Dun-dun-dun-dun. Or was that you?

Joe Rogan (0:04)

That was me.

Ron White (0:04)

Okay, all right. I thought you paid for that.

Joe Rogan (0:08)

We're live. Ron White.

Ron White (0:10)

Hey, Joe Rogan.

Joe Rogan (0:10)

Looks like you're ready to take notes.

Ron White (0:12)

I signed this, you know, you shoved some paperwork at me when I don't have my glasses. I don't even know what it says.

Joe Rogan (0:17)

You have glasses on.

Ron White (0:18)

I do. Oh yeah, I do.

Yeah, and I'm not sure, but I think I've just agreed to, you know, whatever.

Joe Rogan (0:28)

Trust me, we wouldn't do anything terrible to you.

Ron White (0:30)

No, you're my friend.

Joe Rogan (0:31)

I love you.

Ron White (0:32)

I love you too. We have a mutual admiration society that we don't let anybody else in.

Joe Rogan (0:37)

It's been so nice.

Ron White (0:38)

People want in, but fuck them.

Joe Rogan (0:39)

Fuck them. It's been so nice having you around the store, man. I gotta tell you, it's really fun.

Ron White (0:43)

Yeah, it's great having you around too, man. It's our little home base up there. It's a fucking hoot.

Joe Rogan (0:48)

It is, right? It's like you work on everything there and then venture forth.

Ron White (0:53)

Right, yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:54)

It's a spot.

Ron White (0:55)

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, you know, huge money. They're offering me regular money.

Joe Rogan (1:09)

Trying to figure out if you want to?

Ron White (1:11)

Yeah, you know, it takes me... I'm not like some comics, you know. Some comics just spit out an hour a year, and I don't, you know. It takes me three years to write a new record, you know, but it's good, you know, but it takes me forever to do it. I'm just not that prolific, I guess, anymore.

Joe Rogan (1:27)

That's the big debate with comedians. Like, how much time should you wait? And Tom Poppa 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. I think he kind of agrees now that when you do one a year, it's almost like it's a special full of, like, adolescent premises.

Ron White (1:50)

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, it's about my wife buying me a bicycle, thinking I might ride it for, you know, health reasons, and it is 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. 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 didn'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.

Joe Rogan (2:38)

Mitch Hedberg 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.

This is the new punchline. Yeah, it's a funny thing, the development of material. You're the only one who really knows when it's done.

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 ready. And then maybe two specials later, I'll stick it in somewhere.

Ron White (3:08)

Yeah, so I don't know that Netflix wants an hour. I really think Netflix specials should be 30 minutes. I really do, because I would do a 30-minute special and not burn an hour of material on it.

And I go back. I watched yours the other day, which was great. And I watched the Allie Wong special.