History Creator / RonWhite

* TypeCasting: Part of the reason he eventually left the Blue Collar Comedy group. While he did so on good terms, White himself, and not a few of his fans, felt like he didn't fit, as he had to water his style down considerably to fit with the other guys on tour. He also wanted to avoid being called a "redneck comedian", since the redneck lifestyle isn't really something he talks about much.

* WhiteSheep: Quite a few of his fans ''really'' don't like the other Blue Collar guys.
** 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.
** Also makes sense since White's style of comedy is much DarkerandEdgier than the other three.

** He hosted the Jeff Foxworthy Roast, but became more and more visibly inebriated as it went on, to the point that Larry finally had to take over for him.

** 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.

* 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?"

* DeadpanSnarker: Oh so much.

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: His plans for the Sears Tower after he wins his lawsuit: "Ron White's Big Old Fucking 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'''!"

'''Ron''': Do you only watch scenes with [[GirlOnGirlIsHot two women]]?\\

'''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[[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.

* SophisticatedAsHell:
** One skit involved him shopping for sunglasses and asking a salesman, ''very politely'', "How do you sleep at night, you fucking prick?"

'''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.''

--> ...that you guys (addressing the audience about one of his cool toys ) bought me.

-->You know that little guy that sits on your shoulders that reminds you of your prior commitments and your moral fortitude? I didn't hear a peep out of that guy! He hadn't been laid in three months, either! He was speechless for like 20 minutes, then he went, "Suck her titties!" "I was ''gonna''!" Soon as the whole thing's over, he's back at his post: "That was ''wrong'', mister!" I'm like, "20 minutes ago, you were beatin' off on my shoulder, monkey boy!" I fuckin' hate him, man. He smokes pot. He burned a hole in my other jacket. (beat) Right before the show.

--->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.

** 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.

-->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.

--->Brbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrp. ({{beat}}) Shorthand.

''(Ron pauses, and [[DopeSlap taps himself in the back of his head with his mic)''\\

--> I didn't know how many of 'em it would've taken to whoop my ass, but... I knew how many they were gonna ''use''.

* DeadlyFireworksDisplay: Brought up in one of his routines. "Timmy no--would you look at that?"

** Another involved an inattentive valet getting pissed off when Ron tried to park his car himself. the valet got in Ron's way, and...

* MeanDrunk: Inverted. In the story about the inattentive valet, he ends it off (after having gotten his way and come back to gloat) with the moral: "Don't fuck with me when I haven't been drinking."
* 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.

-> 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 Series/BlueCollarComedy Tour, in association with fellow comedians Creator/BillEngvall, Creator/JeffFoxworthy and Creator/LarryTheCableGuy. He is easily the most vulgar of the four, with his albums regularly carrying "explicit content" warnings.

* TheAlcoholic: The SophisticatedAsHell variant (see below). He always performs with a glass in 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. 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.

** "[[RunningGag I promised Sears I would tell this story onstage every night until the lawsuit's settled.]]"

--> "It FALLS off. It FALLS off. It FALLS THE ''FUCK'' OFF! Turning my van into A TRIPOD, spinning me into dimension of pissed off I've never been in before in my ''life!''"

-->"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."

** The guy who didn't put the lug nut back on his van.

** Music/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.

-->'''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.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: According to himself, he smokes only to keep his hands off his penis.

* 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]]:
-->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.

-->'''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.

--> '''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?]]

* 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."

--> '''Ron:''' This guy was coming up with all these arguments and I just said, 'Yeah well ''FUCK YOU!!!'''
--> '''Ron:''' I thought I had ''won''. The other guy was speechless. I thought that's what we were supposed to do.
* 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!"
*** 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, costing, on average, $200 a bottle here in the U.S.
** He's started drinking his own brand of tequila on stage.

* RunningGag Talking about the stuff his fans Bought him.
-->" ...that you guys (addressing the audience about one of his cool toys ) bought me."

** [[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."

YMMV about his works [[YMMV/RonWhite here]].

Ron [[ItMakesSenseInContext "Tater Salad"]] White is a stand-up comedian. He first gained fame in the early 2000s as a member of the Series/BlueCollarComedy Tour, in association with fellow comedians Creator/BillEngvall, Creator/JeffFoxworthy and LarryTheCableGuy. He is easily the most vulgar of the four, with his albums regularly carrying "explicit content" warnings.

Ron [[ItMakesSenseInContext "Tater Salad"]] White is a stand-up comedian. He first gained fame in the early 2000s as a member of the 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.

** "And I told the guys at Sears that [[RunningGag I'm gonna tell this story every show I do]] until they settle."

--> "It FELL off. It FELL off. It FELL THE ''FUCK'' OFF! Turning my van into A TRIPOD, spinning me into dimension of pissed off I've never been in before in my ''life!''"

** 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?"

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: His plans for the Sears Tower after he wins his lawsuit: "Ron White's Big Old Goddamn Building!"

** And apparently the squirrel was eaten by an anaconda.

-->I was not 'Drunk. In. Pub-lic.' I was drunk ''in a bar''. [The bouncers] threw me into pub-lic. [[InsaneTrollLogic Arrest them!]]

* AllOfThem: This was the implication that get him from getting into a fight with the bouncers when he was thrown out of a bar in New York.