He's been making people laugh for 27 years.
Ron White has been one of the top three comics in America for more than a decade; he's dedicated to his craft and he's not slowing down.
"I've done 11,000 shows," White said. "I used to do nine shows a week, 50 weeks a year."
With a thick "Texas accent," as White called it, he commented on how performing in the South compared to performing in big cities in the North.
"Well it's surprisingly similar, you know, because we all respond to the human condition that is pretty much the same," White said. "Even with Blue Collar, we always sold tickets in the North as well as we did in the South because it's really geared toward people who have to get up and do something, you know, for a living."
Blue Collar Comedy Tour was a widely popular comedy tour with Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall, Larry the Cable Guy and White. White said he wouldn't be where he is today without Foxworthy and the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, and he's still known for many of the jokes he told on that tour.
"Most of my fans know that I won't do old material," White said. "There's no such thing as a hit joke. If you know the joke, you know the joke, so we have to move on and I have to tell you a new joke."
White said the jokes he tells aren't written in any notebooks or scribbled down on any napkins and he never sits down to write.
"It's processed in my unstable brain and worked out on stage," White said. "Jokes are kind of like puzzles, you know? If you find something that's really funny you can build the puzzle around it."
The way White processes and writes his jokes coincides with his comic style, which is to be true to your nature. White said for a long time his managers told him he needed to be more like other comics, corporate clean, but White never changed.
"I'm gonna be myself," White said. "The closer you get to who you really are onstage, the more people respond to it, for whatever reason."
This thwarted rumors that White had given up drinking and only drank apple juice on stage as part of his act.
"I don't know how that got started," White laughed. "You can actually go on YouTube and see footage of me in a suit, cigar, scotch, diving in to a mermaid tank. So if that doesn't scream I still drink I don't know what does."
Number Juan is the tequila White drinks on stage, an award winning liquor he and his brother-in-law created.
White is an accomplished comic, published author, actor and has owned multiple businesses. White said he's not opposed to branching out even more, but not if it compromises his tour.
"Once [tickets] are on sale, they're on sale and I'm coming," White said.
Tickets are on sale now to see White on Feb. 28 in Columbus, Ga., March 21 in Birmingham and March 22 in Montgomery.
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