I've read excerpts from his book, and I've seen him on the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, and now they are airing commercials for his upcoming visit to the Triangle. In the ads the snippets they are playing are the same sketches from his book and the Blue Collar Comedy Tour.

Has anybody seen him do anything different than his "Tater Salad" routine, or is it the same everywhere he goes?

8/5/2013 5:20:55 PM

to be fair, most comedians use the same material for "a while" and then eventually change it up. whether or not it is the same, i have to assume they would use "tater salad" in the promo since that's what people know him for.

i just wanted to get in here before all the ron white hate.

8/5/2013 5:46:46 PM

Ron White is easily the most tolerable of the Blue Collar guys.

$10 says you'll get some new material and some twists on greatest hits.

8/5/2013 6:41:39 PM

Completely agree. Ron White is actually pretty funny. The rest suuuuuck.

I'm sure he 's come up with some new material since 2008.

8/5/2013 6:56:18 PM

I remember when Jon Reep won Last Comic Standing. He used every bit of his existing material from week to week. You could look up his routines on youtube and then anticipate what his routine would be for the week. I think if you looked up Ron White on youtube and watched a few videos, you wouldn't see any new material at his live show.

8/5/2013 6:58:07 PM

You're comparing a guy who's most famous for a catch phrase in a commercial to an internationally successful standup.

Don't do that.

Also, keep in mind that Last Comic Standing was an arranged performance show financed by comedy agents and television producers, not an actual competition.

[Edited on August 5, 2013 at 7:07 PM. Reason : 3]

8/5/2013 7:05:23 PM

I didn't say I didn't think he was funny, just wondering if he ever changed it up.

8/5/2013 7:06:33 PM

I'm willing to bet that Ron White does a different show on each round of touring.

Working comics are always doing new stuff. I saw Louis CK at the DSI festival in Carrboro in either '06 or '07, and on top of his 45 minute set, he did another 20-30 minutes of fresh stuff. Not all of it worked, but that's the point.

8/5/2013 7:10:19 PM

Youtube is both the best and worst thing for stand-up comedy

I tend to lean towards the worst

but

it keeps the good ones on top of their shit

8/5/2013 7:13:33 PM

True.

Used to be a comic would do two loops of the world for 18 months. Maybe they'd come to your town and maybe not, but after 18 months they'd do a record or a special, and by the time you'd seen the special and they were coming back to town, they had 30 minutes of new stuff.

Now, as soon as a comic has a new bit (or a band has a new song for that matter), it's on Youtube for all to see. There's no window to develop a new show because everyone's seen each of your new bits the day after you've debuted them.

8/5/2013 7:25:10 PM

that and assholes record/upload bits that are in the process of being worked out

8/5/2013 8:00:16 PM

Saw him in Vegas last year. We were actually disappointed. He had just got married, again, and spent all this time just telling stories that didn't hold up to his old stuff. Think he was more lit than usual because he invited his 2 dogs on stage and started rolling around with them on the ground. His new wife sings so the last part of his act was him talking about how good of a singer she was and inviting us out to a club in the casino to listen to her. It was kinda like watching Ron Swanson on a Tammy high. Maybe they have already gotten divorced and he's back to his old self.

8/5/2013 8:54:35 PM

he is my second least favorite of the blue collar comedy guys.

not a fan.

8/5/2013 9:03:34 PM

I saw him a few years after the first blue collar in Greensboro. Not a bad show but a lot of jokes I'd heard before. But like others have said that is to be expected from a stand-up.

8/5/2013 9:11:52 PM

If you think Ron White is the second worst blue collar guy, you might be a redneck.

But seriously, I'm curious about how you rank the others. Who's the best? Who's the worst?

8/5/2013 10:26:35 PM

He is doing a tour to work on NEW stuff and then do a special with the material that worked.

Thats what most of these small city tours are for.

8/6/2013 1:34:49 AM

I find Bill Engvall nearly intolerable. He desperately wants to be a Jeff Foxworthy clone, which feels super awkward. "Here's your sign . . ." Doesn't make a bit of sense and only works as a cheap catch-phrase.

Larry the Cable Guy mostly just annoyed me. I grew up around a lot of people similar to the person he portrays in his comedy and it just doesn't do anything for me. Maybe if he felt more like a parody, but I just don't see it.

I actually like Jeff Foxworthy, and I find Ron White the best or the bunch.

--

On a related note, I saw Jeff Dunham live because I thought his shows on Comedy Central were hilarious. His live show was just awful, though. It started with like 40 minutes of some lame guitar comedian which was just boring. Then Jeff came on stage and did some of his basic routine. I hadn't actually seen Akbar up until this point, but that is definitely my least favorite of his puppets. And every 5 minutes Jeff had the guitar guy come on stage to duet comedy routines. Once again, I just wasn't impressed with the bit.

I won't be going to another Jeff Dunham performance. I would give Jeff Foxworthy or Ron White a chance, though.

[Edited on August 6, 2013 at 10:58 AM. Reason : ]

8/6/2013 10:57:37 AM

Ron White was funny about 10 years ago...and even then, you could only listen once because his stand-up has been the exact same for the past 10 or 12 years.

I saw him live in Raleigh after I first listened to his stand-up about three years prior...and it was word-for-word the exact same material that I heard the first time. I had seen a lot of stand-up up to that point and have heard tons of recycled material...but I've never heard it go word-for-word and in the exact same order. I think I saw him on TV/youtube recently and it was the same spiel.

I think you'd have to pay me to see him right now.

8/6/2013 11:22:17 AM

Quote :

"On a related note, I saw Jeff Dunham live because I thought his shows on Comedy Central were hilarious."

Oh dear.

8/6/2013 12:44:04 PM