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* ToiletHumor: "Ever take a crap so big, your pants fit better?"
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** The drinking on stage isn't just a schtick he uses for an on-stage persona. He really does drink, smoke, and toke constantly throughout the day. He fully acknowledges that he has a problem and that his habits have gotten him into severe trouble, but dislikes being sober so much that being near-permanently inebriated and high is preferable.
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* MustHaveNicotine: One of his trademarks is that he smokes while performing. He used to smoke so much that he wouldn't measure his cigarette by how many packs he went through a day, but by ''how many disposable lighters'' he'd empty. He's since moved onto smoking cigars, which don't take as much of a toll on his respiration.
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* MustHaveNicotine: One of his trademarks is that he smokes while performing. He used to smoke so much that he wouldn't measure his cigarette usage by how many packs he went through a day, but by ''how many disposable lighters'' he'd empty. He's since moved onto smoking cigars, which don't take as much of a toll on his respiration.
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* FunctionalAddict: He used to drink, pop, snort, shoot, and smoke pretty much anything he could get his hands on. He's since gotten his usage down to a level where his name won't pop up in a headline associated with an overdose.
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* FunctionalAddict: He used to drink, pop, snort, shoot, and smoke pretty much anything he could get his hands on.on and was well on his way to an early grave. He's since gotten his usage down to a level where his name won't pop up in a headline associated with an overdose.
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* CigarChomper: He moved on from smoking cigarettes to puffing on cigars while performing on stage. He'll sometimes pause shows to relight his cigar if it's gone out.
* FunctionalAddict: He used to drink, pop, snort, shoot, and smoke pretty much anything he could get his hands on. He's since gotten his usage down to a level where his name won't pop up in a headline associated with an overdose.
* MustHaveNicotine: One of his trademarks is that he smokes while performing. He used to smoke so much that he wouldn't measure his cigarette by how many packs he went through a day, but by ''how many disposable lighters'' he'd empty. He's since moved onto smoking cigars, which don't take as much of a toll on his respiration.
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* TheStoner: Smokes cigarrettes and cigars on stage, but openly talks about how he likes to toke. He made the news when he was arrested over trace amounts of marijuana found on his plane.
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* TheStoner: Smokes cigarrettes cigarettes and cigars on stage, but openly talks about how he likes to toke. He made the news when he was arrested over trace amounts of marijuana found on his plane.
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* RetiredBadass: He was formerly in the US Navy, and was also a rodeo bronc rider in his younger days.
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* RetiredBadass: He was formerly in the US Navy, Navy[[note]]Although, by his own admission, he was so drugged up at the time that he was kicked out of the military without completing his term of service[[/note]], and was also a rodeo bronc rider in his younger days.
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** He's started drinking his own brand of tequila on stage.
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* TheAlcoholic: The SophisticatedAsHell variant (see below). He rarely performs without a glass of whiskey in hand, even making a joke of it when he had a large number of the water bottles most comedians used... and then got rid of them in favor of his decanter. Perhaps the only time it's really hindered him is when he became more and more visibly inebriated during the Jeff Foxworthy Roast, with Larry finally having to take over hosting duties for him.
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* TheAlcoholic: The SophisticatedAsHell variant (see below). He rarely always performs without with a glass of whiskey in hand, his hand and gets increasingly inebriated as the show goes on, even making a joke of it when he had a large number of the water bottles most comedians used... and then got rid of them in favor of his decanter. Perhaps the only time it's really hindered him is He used to drink whiskey on stage, but has since started drinking his own brand of tequila. This habit makes nights when he has to perform multiple shows interesting, to say the least, for later audiences and he became more and more visibly inebriated during the Jeff Foxworthy Roast, with Larry finally having to take over hosting duties for him.
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--> "It FELL off. It FELL off. It FELL THE ''FUCK'' OFF! Turning my van into A TRIPOD, spinning me into a whole new world of 'pissed off'!"
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--> "It FELL off. It FELL off. It FELL THE ''FUCK'' OFF! Turning my van into A TRIPOD, spinning me into a whole new world dimension of 'pissed off'!"pissed off I've never been in before in my ''life!''"
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--> "It FELL off. It FELL off. It FELL THE ''FUCK'' OFF!"OFF! Turning my van into A TRIPOD, spinning me into a whole new world of 'pissed off'!"
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* StunnedSilence: "I got kicked off the high school debate team for saying 'Yeah?! Well, ''[[PrecisionFStrike fuck you!]]''' I thought I had won. The other kid was speechless."
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* StunnedSilence: "I got kicked off the high school debate team for saying 'Yeah?! Well, ''[[PrecisionFStrike fuck you!]]''' I thought I had won. [[ChewbaccaDefense The other kid was speechless.""]]
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YMMV about his works [[YMMV/RonWhite here]].
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Ron [[ItMakesSenseInContext "Tater Salad"]] White is a stand-up comedian. He first gained fame in the early 2000s as a member of the BlueCollarComedy Tour, in association with fellow comedians Creator/BillEngvall, JeffFoxworthy and LarryTheCableGuy. He is easily the most vulgar of the four, with his albums regularly carrying "explicit content" warnings.
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Ron [[ItMakesSenseInContext "Tater Salad"]] White is a stand-up comedian. He first gained fame in the early 2000s as a member of the BlueCollarComedy Series/BlueCollarComedy Tour, in association with fellow comedians Creator/BillEngvall, JeffFoxworthy and LarryTheCableGuy. He is easily the most vulgar of the four, with his albums regularly carrying "explicit content" warnings.
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* CoolCar: Thought the van he owned was one. His relatives disagreed.
-->'''Ron:''' I bought this big two-story custom van back when I was married. I forgot to tell you this, it was getting kinda cool, it had the James Bond couch in the back, when you push a button, the couch automatically turns into a bed, and I was like, "Well, that's cool." I finally got something over those Mercedes-Benz-driving in-laws of mine, you know what I mean? When I first bought the van, I was real proud of it. I took it straight over to my brother-in-law's house to show it off, 'cause he's such a prick. He takes one look at my new van and he goes [in snobbish accent] "I can't believe you didn't buy a Mercedes-Benz." They don't make a van. "Ron, I don't think you fully understand the intricacies of Mercedes-Benz engineering. Why, I got the three-inch windshield wiper that keeps my headlight clean in a rainstorm." I got a place to fuck your sister. I don't know why they didn't like me.
-->'''Ron:''' I bought this big two-story custom van back when I was married. I forgot to tell you this, it was getting kinda cool, it had the James Bond couch in the back, when you push a button, the couch automatically turns into a bed, and I was like, "Well, that's cool." I finally got something over those Mercedes-Benz-driving in-laws of mine, you know what I mean? When I first bought the van, I was real proud of it. I took it straight over to my brother-in-law's house to show it off, 'cause he's such a prick. He takes one look at my new van and he goes [in snobbish accent] "I can't believe you didn't buy a Mercedes-Benz." They don't make a van. "Ron, I don't think you fully understand the intricacies of Mercedes-Benz engineering. Why, I got the three-inch windshield wiper that keeps my headlight clean in a rainstorm." I got a place to fuck your sister. I don't know why they didn't like me.
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* KnowWhenToFoldThem: When talking about getting thrown out of a bar:
--> '''Ron''': They hurled me out of that night club, and then they decided to square off with me in the parking lot. But I backed down 'cause I didn't know how many of them it was going to take to whip my ass, but I knew how many they were going to use. That's a handy piece of information to have, right there.
--> '''Ron''': They hurled me out of that night club, and then they decided to square off with me in the parking lot. But I backed down 'cause I didn't know how many of them it was going to take to whip my ass, but I knew how many they were going to use. That's a handy piece of information to have, right there.
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* FanNickname: "Tater Salad." He calls his son "Tater Tot" and "Poot."
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** One time while flying on a small jump jet flight, the pilot announces that one of the engines has lost some oil pressure. Ron is drunk enough to not care, but the guy next to him is in a complete panic.
-->'''Guy next to Ron:''' Hey man, hey man, if one of these engines fails, how far will the other one take us?
-->'''Ron:''' All the way to the scene of the crash. Which is pretty handy because that's where we're headed. I bet we beat the paramedics there by a half hour. We're haulin' ass.
-->'''Guy next to Ron:''' Hey man, hey man, if one of these engines fails, how far will the other one take us?
-->'''Ron:''' All the way to the scene of the crash. Which is pretty handy because that's where we're headed. I bet we beat the paramedics there by a half hour. We're haulin' ass.
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--> '''Ron:''' He was speechless, I thought that I had ''won''. The other guy was speechless. I thought that's what we were going for.supposed to do.
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* BrainlessBeauty: Ron explains the downside to dating these types in his "You Can't Fix Stupid" routine.
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* YouSayTomato: One of his bits is making fun of a person pronouncing "coupons" as "KOO-pins".
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* YouSayTomato: One of his bits is making fun of a person pronouncing "coupons" as "KOO-pins"."KOO-pins".
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-->There's one advantage when you only fuck your wife, and you probably haven't thought about this. You can't get caught. You won't have some guy kick in your door and say, "You dirty motherfucker, is that your old lady?"
--> Actually, we did get caught once, me and my wife were having sex, when the housekeeper walked in on us. Which is a lot better than the reverse.
--> Actually, we did get caught once, me and my wife were having sex, when the housekeeper walked in on us. Which is a lot better than the reverse.
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** GarthBrooks Concerts: With him later describing coming home to a bunch of paper towel piles of poop, resembling a miniature Garth Brooks concert after previously making a joke Garth Brooks earlier.
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** It does make sense, though, as Ron (though not trying to be disrespectful to his colleagues) [[TypeCasting did not want to be classified]] as a "redneck" comedian. This was the main reason he didn't join the others on Blue Collar TV, though he did make an appearance or two throughout its run.
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*** Those with a keen eye can see that (at least during the third Blue Collar film One For The Road) that he is drinking Johnnie Walker Blue Label, which is a high-class and expensive scotch, averaging nearly $200 a bottle here in the U.S.
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** This bit him on the ass, too, as that quote was in reference to an elderly woman offering to flash him.
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* RunningGag Talking about the stuff his fans Bought him.
-->" ...that you guys (addressing the audience about one of his cool toys ) bought me."
-->" ...that you guys (addressing the audience about one of his cool toys ) bought me."
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* ThisIsGonnaSuck: "It was at this time that I had the ''right'' to remain silent... but I did not have the ''ability''..."
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* ThisIsGonnaSuck: "It was at this time that I had the ''right'' to remain silent... but I did not have the ''ability''...''[[InVinoVeritas ability]]''..."
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* DeadpanSnarker: Oh so much. When referring to a man who planned to ride out a hurricane by tying himself to a pole, on the grounds that he was in great physical shape and could withstand the wind:
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* DeadpanSnarker: Oh so much. When referring to a man who planned to ride out a hurricane by tying himself to a pole, on the grounds that he was in great physical shape and [[DoNotTouchTheFunnelCloud could withstand the wind:wind]]:
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-->There's one advantage when you only fuck your wife, and you probably haven't thought about this. You can't get caught. You won't have some guy kick in your door and say, "You dirty motherfucker, is that your old lady?"
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Ron [[ItMakesSenseInContext "Tater Salad"]] White is a stand-up comedian. He first gained fame in the early 2000s as a member of the BlueCollarComedy Tour, in association with fellow comedians Creator/BillEngvall, JeffFoxworthy and LarryTheCableGuy. He is easily the most vulgar of the four, with his albums regularly carrying "explicit content" warnings.
White's first major comedy album, ''Drunk in Public'', was a commercial success, going gold in the wake of the Blue Collar tour's peak of success. One of his most notable jokes is a long ShaggyDogStory wherein he is arrested for [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin public intoxication]].
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!!Ron and his comedy provide examples of the following:
* TheAlcoholic: The SophisticatedAsHell variant (see below). He rarely performs without a glass of whiskey in hand, even making a joke of it when he had a large number of the water bottles most comedians used... and then got rid of them in favor of his decanter. Perhaps the only time it's really hindered him is when he became more and more visibly inebriated during the Jeff Foxworthy Roast, with Larry finally having to take over hosting duties for him.
** His book, "I Had the Right to Remain Silent, But Didn't Have the Ability", chronicles how one incident of him drinking resulted in him not being invited back to stay at the [[Creator/BillEngvall Engvall's]] house.
* TheAllegedCar: One story involved a... [[EpicFail botched]] tire-change job at Sears Auto, which ended with him driving out of the parking lot and one wheel falling right off his van. He should've known something was up when "it took three hours to change ''four'' tires."
** "And I told the guys at Sears that [[RunningGag I'm gonna tell this story every show I do]] until they settle."
* AllMenArePerverts: "Guys, you know how it is. You've seen one woman naked... you wanna see the ''rest'' of them naked!"
* BerserkButton: Ron discovered a whole new world of pissed off when, after having the tires on his van replaced, one ''fell off''.
* BookDumb: By his own admission.
-->"I'm smart, but you can't prove it on paper. I do have a GED, and if you don't know what GED stands for...you probably got one too."
* BrickJoke:
** The "Tater Salad" story. Short version: he was arrested for DUI when he was young. Since it was a small town, he had known the cop personally for a long time. When the cop -- who of course had to follow procedure -- asked him if he had any aliases, Ron sarcastically responded "Yeah. They call me...'Tater Salad.'" Twenty years later, while being arrested for being drunk in public in New York City, the officer ran his record and asked him "Are you Ron 'Tater Salad' White?"
** The guy who didn't put the lug nut back on his van.
** The below mentioned old man with the GagPenis.
** The "KOO-pins" joke mentioned lower down actually managed to show up, completely without preparation or explanation, in a different routine he did ''years'' later[[note]]''You Can't Fix Stupid'', by the way[[/note]].
** GarthBrooks Concerts: With him later describing coming home to a bunch of paper towel piles of poop, resembling a miniature Garth Brooks concert after previously making a joke Garth Brooks earlier.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When recapping the documentary ''Film/GrizzlyMan'' to his audience, he gets to the part where [[ItWasHisSled Timothy Treadwell is eaten by a bear]].
-->Funniest movie I've ever seen in my life!
* CoolOldGuy
* DeadlyFireworksDisplay: Brought up in one of his routines. "Timmy no--would you look at that?"
* DeadpanSnarker: Oh so much. When referring to a man who planned to ride out a hurricane by tying himself to a pole, on the grounds that he was in great physical shape and could withstand the wind:
-->Okay, uh, let's get something straight. It's not ''that'' the wind is blowing, it's ''what'' the wind is blowing. If you get hit by a ''Volvo'', it doesn't matter how many sit-ups you did that day.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: His plans for the Sears Tower after he wins his lawsuit: "Ron White's Big Old Goddamn Building!"
* ExactWords:
** When informed that he was being arrested for "drunk in public", he responded with "I didn't wanna be drunk in public, I wanted to be drunk in a ''bar''! They ''threw'' me into public, arrest '''them'''!"
** He took his two dogs to go pee in front of a bank, next to a sign that said "No Dogs". When he was approached by an angry employee and told "The sign says "No Dogs"!", his response was "The sign's wrong. It should say "Two Dogs"!"
* FanNickname: "Tater Salad." He calls his son "Tater Tot" and "Poot."
* GagPenis: During a cruise to Santorini, Greece, he encounters a man that must have had a fully grown squirrel stuffed into his speedo. He meets him again, this time at a nude beach...
** And apparently the squirrel was eaten by an anaconda.
*** NotSoDifferent: If he were in his position, he would've had a frame around it.
* GayAesop: "The most useless thing you can be is homophobic"/"We're all gay, it's just to what extent are you gay." (The latter is a possibly unintentional reference to the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey_scale Kinsey sliding scale of human sexuality]] developed by sex researcher Alfred Kinsey.)
--> '''Ron''': Do ya like porn?
--> '''Homophobe''': Yeah, I like porn. You know that.
--> '''Ron''': Do you only watch scenes with [[GirlOnGirlIsHot two women]]?
--> '''Homophobe''': Naw, I like to watch a man and a women making love.
--> '''Ron''': Oh. Do you care if the man has a half-flacid penis?
--> '''Homophobe''': Naw, man, I like big, hard, throbbing co--!
--> ''[[ThatCameOutWrong (gets a horrified face, stops to think about what he said)]]''
--> '''Ron''': [[BrickJoke Do you like chocolate?]]
* INeedAFreakingDrink: In the third Blue Collar movie, when Larry starts telling "'joke' jokes", Ron gets up and goes to the bar on stage and fixes himself a drink. Jeff asks him if the show was running a little long for him.
* InsistentTerminology: The "Tater Salad" story involved the cops charging him with [[PunctuatedForEmphasis "Drunk. In. Pub-lic."]] He saw it differently:
-->I was not 'Drunk. In. Pub-lic.' I was drunk ''in a bar''. [The bouncers] threw me into pub-lic. [[InsaneTrollLogic Arrest them!]]
* OverlyLongGag: The "Tater Salad" story again. He spends nearly 45 seconds imitating a telegraph, and [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the length by saying, "This part takes a while."
--->Brbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrp. ({{beat}}) Shorthand.
* PopularSayingBut: "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, then find someone whose life has given him vodka and have a party."
* PrecisionFStrike: Imagine Ron on the debate team.
--> '''Ron:''' This guy was coming up with all these arguments and I just said, 'Yeah well ''FUCK YOU!!!'''
--> '''Ron:''' He was speechless, I thought that was what we were going for.
* ProductPlacement: Averted; in one of his specials, he admitted that he pours his scotch out of one of his own bottles instead of a bottle with a label (e.g. Jack Daniels or Jim Beam) because he's not getting sponsored by any particular manufacturer. Considering he goes on to describe it as "the kind [of whiskey] you drink if you're gonna die penniless", the manufacturer's probably glad about it.
** "...it's good, though!"
* RefugeInAudacity: His story about going across a "rickety-freaking-bridge" with a 5 MPH speed limit...wherein he got a ticket.
-->'''Cop''': Do you have any idea how fast you were going?\\
'''Ron''': I dunno, eight? Nine? My foot slipped off the brake.\\
'''Cop''': I clocked you going eleven miles an hour; that's over twice the legal limit.\\
'''Ron''': ''(holds hands out in "cuff me" gesture)'' Take me to jail. I'm begging you. I'll make a million bucks telling this story if you ''take me to jail for going eleven miles an hour.''
* RetiredBadass: He was formerly in the US Navy, and was also a rodeo bronc rider in his younger days.
* SeashellBra: "I didn't know this. If you find a girl wearing a seashell bra, and you pick her up, and put her to your ear, you can hear her scream. I thought I'd hear the ocean, but not over that bitch."
* SophisticatedAsHell:
** One skit involved him shopping for sunglasses and asking a salesman, ''very politely'', "How do you sleep at night, you fucking prick?"
** Another involved an inattentive valet getting pissed off when Ron tried to park his car himself. the valet got in Ron's way, and...
--->I rolled down the window and, very politely, said, "Get out of my fucking way!"
** [[RunningGag And another]] involved two women talking nonstop behind him in a theatre line in Vegas. After one tells him to fuck off when he (actually very politely) complains to them...
--->I turn around and, very politely...
--->''[the audience laughs]''
--->[[LampshadeHanging Don't start with me.]] I turn around and, very politely, say, "Lady, as far as social skills go, talking during live theatre is the equivalent of shitting in the street."
* StunnedSilence: "I got kicked off the high school debate team for saying 'Yeah?! Well, ''[[PrecisionFStrike fuck you!]]''' I thought I had won. The other kid was speechless."
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: "It was at this time that I had the ''right'' to remain silent... but I did not have the ''ability''..."
* WhiteSheep: Quite a few of his fans ''really'' don't like the other Blue Collar guys.
* YouSayTomato: One of his bits is making fun of a person pronouncing "coupons" as "KOO-pins".
--> Actually, we did get caught once, me and my wife were having sex, when the housekeeper walked in on us. Which is a lot better than the reverse.
Ron [[ItMakesSenseInContext "Tater Salad"]] White is a stand-up comedian. He first gained fame in the early 2000s as a member of the BlueCollarComedy Tour, in association with fellow comedians Creator/BillEngvall, JeffFoxworthy and LarryTheCableGuy. He is easily the most vulgar of the four, with his albums regularly carrying "explicit content" warnings.
White's first major comedy album, ''Drunk in Public'', was a commercial success, going gold in the wake of the Blue Collar tour's peak of success. One of his most notable jokes is a long ShaggyDogStory wherein he is arrested for [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin public intoxication]].
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!!Ron and his comedy provide examples of the following:
* TheAlcoholic: The SophisticatedAsHell variant (see below). He rarely performs without a glass of whiskey in hand, even making a joke of it when he had a large number of the water bottles most comedians used... and then got rid of them in favor of his decanter. Perhaps the only time it's really hindered him is when he became more and more visibly inebriated during the Jeff Foxworthy Roast, with Larry finally having to take over hosting duties for him.
** His book, "I Had the Right to Remain Silent, But Didn't Have the Ability", chronicles how one incident of him drinking resulted in him not being invited back to stay at the [[Creator/BillEngvall Engvall's]] house.
* TheAllegedCar: One story involved a... [[EpicFail botched]] tire-change job at Sears Auto, which ended with him driving out of the parking lot and one wheel falling right off his van. He should've known something was up when "it took three hours to change ''four'' tires."
** "And I told the guys at Sears that [[RunningGag I'm gonna tell this story every show I do]] until they settle."
* AllMenArePerverts: "Guys, you know how it is. You've seen one woman naked... you wanna see the ''rest'' of them naked!"
* BerserkButton: Ron discovered a whole new world of pissed off when, after having the tires on his van replaced, one ''fell off''.
* BookDumb: By his own admission.
-->"I'm smart, but you can't prove it on paper. I do have a GED, and if you don't know what GED stands for...you probably got one too."
* BrickJoke:
** The "Tater Salad" story. Short version: he was arrested for DUI when he was young. Since it was a small town, he had known the cop personally for a long time. When the cop -- who of course had to follow procedure -- asked him if he had any aliases, Ron sarcastically responded "Yeah. They call me...'Tater Salad.'" Twenty years later, while being arrested for being drunk in public in New York City, the officer ran his record and asked him "Are you Ron 'Tater Salad' White?"
** The guy who didn't put the lug nut back on his van.
** The below mentioned old man with the GagPenis.
** The "KOO-pins" joke mentioned lower down actually managed to show up, completely without preparation or explanation, in a different routine he did ''years'' later[[note]]''You Can't Fix Stupid'', by the way[[/note]].
** GarthBrooks Concerts: With him later describing coming home to a bunch of paper towel piles of poop, resembling a miniature Garth Brooks concert after previously making a joke Garth Brooks earlier.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When recapping the documentary ''Film/GrizzlyMan'' to his audience, he gets to the part where [[ItWasHisSled Timothy Treadwell is eaten by a bear]].
-->Funniest movie I've ever seen in my life!
* CoolOldGuy
* DeadlyFireworksDisplay: Brought up in one of his routines. "Timmy no--would you look at that?"
* DeadpanSnarker: Oh so much. When referring to a man who planned to ride out a hurricane by tying himself to a pole, on the grounds that he was in great physical shape and could withstand the wind:
-->Okay, uh, let's get something straight. It's not ''that'' the wind is blowing, it's ''what'' the wind is blowing. If you get hit by a ''Volvo'', it doesn't matter how many sit-ups you did that day.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: His plans for the Sears Tower after he wins his lawsuit: "Ron White's Big Old Goddamn Building!"
* ExactWords:
** When informed that he was being arrested for "drunk in public", he responded with "I didn't wanna be drunk in public, I wanted to be drunk in a ''bar''! They ''threw'' me into public, arrest '''them'''!"
** He took his two dogs to go pee in front of a bank, next to a sign that said "No Dogs". When he was approached by an angry employee and told "The sign says "No Dogs"!", his response was "The sign's wrong. It should say "Two Dogs"!"
* FanNickname: "Tater Salad." He calls his son "Tater Tot" and "Poot."
* GagPenis: During a cruise to Santorini, Greece, he encounters a man that must have had a fully grown squirrel stuffed into his speedo. He meets him again, this time at a nude beach...
** And apparently the squirrel was eaten by an anaconda.
*** NotSoDifferent: If he were in his position, he would've had a frame around it.
* GayAesop: "The most useless thing you can be is homophobic"/"We're all gay, it's just to what extent are you gay." (The latter is a possibly unintentional reference to the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey_scale Kinsey sliding scale of human sexuality]] developed by sex researcher Alfred Kinsey.)
--> '''Ron''': Do ya like porn?
--> '''Homophobe''': Yeah, I like porn. You know that.
--> '''Ron''': Do you only watch scenes with [[GirlOnGirlIsHot two women]]?
--> '''Homophobe''': Naw, I like to watch a man and a women making love.
--> '''Ron''': Oh. Do you care if the man has a half-flacid penis?
--> '''Homophobe''': Naw, man, I like big, hard, throbbing co--!
--> ''[[ThatCameOutWrong (gets a horrified face, stops to think about what he said)]]''
--> '''Ron''': [[BrickJoke Do you like chocolate?]]
* INeedAFreakingDrink: In the third Blue Collar movie, when Larry starts telling "'joke' jokes", Ron gets up and goes to the bar on stage and fixes himself a drink. Jeff asks him if the show was running a little long for him.
* InsistentTerminology: The "Tater Salad" story involved the cops charging him with [[PunctuatedForEmphasis "Drunk. In. Pub-lic."]] He saw it differently:
-->I was not 'Drunk. In. Pub-lic.' I was drunk ''in a bar''. [The bouncers] threw me into pub-lic. [[InsaneTrollLogic Arrest them!]]
* OverlyLongGag: The "Tater Salad" story again. He spends nearly 45 seconds imitating a telegraph, and [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the length by saying, "This part takes a while."
--->Brbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrp. ({{beat}}) Shorthand.
* PopularSayingBut: "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, then find someone whose life has given him vodka and have a party."
* PrecisionFStrike: Imagine Ron on the debate team.
--> '''Ron:''' This guy was coming up with all these arguments and I just said, 'Yeah well ''FUCK YOU!!!'''
--> '''Ron:''' He was speechless, I thought that was what we were going for.
* ProductPlacement: Averted; in one of his specials, he admitted that he pours his scotch out of one of his own bottles instead of a bottle with a label (e.g. Jack Daniels or Jim Beam) because he's not getting sponsored by any particular manufacturer. Considering he goes on to describe it as "the kind [of whiskey] you drink if you're gonna die penniless", the manufacturer's probably glad about it.
** "...it's good, though!"
* RefugeInAudacity: His story about going across a "rickety-freaking-bridge" with a 5 MPH speed limit...wherein he got a ticket.
-->'''Cop''': Do you have any idea how fast you were going?\\
'''Ron''': I dunno, eight? Nine? My foot slipped off the brake.\\
'''Cop''': I clocked you going eleven miles an hour; that's over twice the legal limit.\\
'''Ron''': ''(holds hands out in "cuff me" gesture)'' Take me to jail. I'm begging you. I'll make a million bucks telling this story if you ''take me to jail for going eleven miles an hour.''
* RetiredBadass: He was formerly in the US Navy, and was also a rodeo bronc rider in his younger days.
* SeashellBra: "I didn't know this. If you find a girl wearing a seashell bra, and you pick her up, and put her to your ear, you can hear her scream. I thought I'd hear the ocean, but not over that bitch."
* SophisticatedAsHell:
** One skit involved him shopping for sunglasses and asking a salesman, ''very politely'', "How do you sleep at night, you fucking prick?"
** Another involved an inattentive valet getting pissed off when Ron tried to park his car himself. the valet got in Ron's way, and...
--->I rolled down the window and, very politely, said, "Get out of my fucking way!"
** [[RunningGag And another]] involved two women talking nonstop behind him in a theatre line in Vegas. After one tells him to fuck off when he (actually very politely) complains to them...
--->I turn around and, very politely...
--->''[the audience laughs]''
--->[[LampshadeHanging Don't start with me.]] I turn around and, very politely, say, "Lady, as far as social skills go, talking during live theatre is the equivalent of shitting in the street."
* StunnedSilence: "I got kicked off the high school debate team for saying 'Yeah?! Well, ''[[PrecisionFStrike fuck you!]]''' I thought I had won. The other kid was speechless."
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: "It was at this time that I had the ''right'' to remain silent... but I did not have the ''ability''..."
* WhiteSheep: Quite a few of his fans ''really'' don't like the other Blue Collar guys.
* YouSayTomato: One of his bits is making fun of a person pronouncing "coupons" as "KOO-pins".
