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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 792.7028092
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Label: Dutton Adult
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Page Count: 320
Printing Date: June 06, 2006
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After years working as a journeyman comic, struggling from one gig to the next, Ron White-now known by fans (and law enforcement officials) as 'Tater Salad'-struck gold with the Blue Collar Comedy phenomenon.
Here, Ron brings his unique brand of humour to the page, accompanied by hilarious illustrations by acclaimed cartoonist Matthew Schultz. For hardcore 'Tater' fans and first-timers, this is Ron White at his very best.
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Not crazy about the book -- but -- the seller mailed it timely and it was in excellent shape, when I got it.
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While I am a big Ron White fan, this book could have been better. It goes on a back and forth patteren of a chapter of his routine followed by a chapter of his life, etc etc, mixed in with illistrations to help drive home the point of the punch line. If you have heard Ron's stand-up from Drunk In Public and You Can't Fix Stupid, you will haev covered about 85-90% of the stand-up material in the book. The bio portion of it leaves more to be desired. It was a good buy for $5, but I couldn't recomened spending more than that on the book.
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I can't say I'm a huge fan of Jeff Foxworthy. Like everyone, I guess, I enjoy his "redneck" humour but what I appreciate the most about him is that he has helped bring a number of other comedians to the world in the "Blue Collar Comedy Tour." One of the comedians who owes the most to Foxworthy is Ron White, a debt "Tater Salad" acknowledges very clearly in this book. Foxworthy deserves his kudos, then, because Ron White is, in my opinion, the funniest of the "blue collar" comedians.
In this book, White alternates chapters of his onstage work with chapters on his life. One thing is clear--Ron White is not a person with whom I would ever want to be friends. His "backstage" stories mostly fall into the category of "funny to tell later but not funny while it was happening." By the time he gets to the night he spends at his "friend," Bill Engvall's, house, I was thinking that Mr. White was too much for me.
On the other hand, I laughed out loud so many times while I was reading this book that my wife made me read in another room so I'd stop bothering her with my noise. There is no doubt that Mr. White is a polished comedian who can tell a story that is every bit as funny on the page as it is to hear him tell it. His bit about the plane flying from Flagstaff to Phoenix may be one of the funniest comedy pieces of all time.
I doubt a lot of people who aren't already familiar with Ron White will bother to pick this up; however, it is worth reading by anyone. I'm not enough of a fan to be completely familiar with all the stuff here so I was happy to come across new things. But, even if you are already a Ron White fan and know these riffs by heart, this book is for you. There are laughs on every page.
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Ron White is a very very funny man, its hard to read his books because you have to stop laughing in order to see the subsequent word !
We really enjoyed it.
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Ron White is not JUST a Comedian, like Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy (and a handful of others like Bernie Mac, Kat Williams and Chris Rock), he has become a genuine American institution. He is the "genuine article" and this book tells why.
Not only does it contain all of his most famous jokes, but the least famous ones as well. It gives us a window into his soul, the very reasons for his immense talent: It grows directly out of his experiences, which are nothing if not a checkerboard of ups and downs, barely surviving on the thinnest edge of the margins of U.S. society. But then with a "game" and irresistible ability to bounce back, White rides his "Texas cowboy persona" back into town and on to success. His "highs" always kept getting "higher" than his "lows," until he finally hit the jackpot on the "Blue Collar Comedy tour."
But that is not the best part: The best part is the book also tells us how he became a comedian. Interspersed between his best and his worst jokes, Tater tells us all about these "ups" and "downs": The long period of incubation; his drug, women and marriage habits; all those trips back and forth across the U.S. in his pickups, vans and buses; his raucous late night "creeping" and partying, even his art business in Mexico, and on and on.
For those who love White's comedy, this is a collectors item; for those who don't yet know him, this is an unimaginable surprise: Either way it's a win-win: We all are immeasurably enriched by his talents, and that includes him. Five stars.
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