It isn't a true Blue Collar Comedy show without a certain disheveled blue-eyed comedian toting a highball and smoking a cigar, but this year Ron "Tater Salad" White will most certainly be absent from a tour with his Southern comedian comrades Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall and Larry the Cable Guy. White, Foxworthy, Engvall and Larry make up the unofficial redneck Fab Four called the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, and while his counterparts are gearing up for another nationwide takeover of their classic brand of comedy, White is taking a solo route in 2010.
Ron White has long been part of the 'blue collar' madness to ensue with redneck jokes and Southern-fried humor, but this year he's out to prove he's a bona fide comedian in his own right, embarking upon a solo comedy tour called Behavioral Problems and taking his antics to the big stage without the rest of his blue collar clan. White's comedy tour is soaring throughout the nation and is especially heavy on West Coast dates this winter and spring, and the self-dubbed "Tater Salad" will grace stages throughout the country as he takes his crude jokes and hillbilly humor to the limit with comedy shows running through mid-April.
White, a Fritch, Texas native, has been cracking up audiences for years, but the road to comedic success wasn't an instant process for this rough and ready comedian. Growing up in a small town in the heart of Texas oil country, White had a knack for making people laugh from his youth. As a young adult, White wore out the comedy circuit across the country, eventually landing a gold mine of a gig in 2000 when he teamed up with lesser-known Southern comedians Bill Engvall, Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy to form the Blue Collar Comedy Tour.
The token bad boy in the clan, White became known for bringing his vices (a cigar and a glass of whiskey) on stage with him during performances, using his one-liner "They call me Tater Salad" to earn a reputation amongst the Blue Collar Comedy crew. The Blue Collar Comedy Tour was a trial run when it began in 2000, but the Southern comedy routine blossomed and snowballed, eventually becoming a nationwide success.
From 2000 to 2003, White joined Foxworthy, Engvall and Larry for the insanely popular Blue Comedy Collar Tour, which was eventually picked up by Warner Bros. as a major motion picture and grossed over $15 million on tour. After the initial Blue Collar Comedy Tour concluded, the four likeminded comedians joined together on several shows throughout the rest of the 2000s, also utilizing newfound fame to embark upon solo careers.
For White, this meant a slew of solo tour dates, CDs and DVD compilations, and his Drunk in Public and You Can't Fix Stupid routines helped make the blue-eyed comedian a favorite apart from the Blue Collar Comedy Tour. Currently on tour to promote his most recent release Behavioral Problems, this native Texan is selling out Ron White tickets for dates across the nation.
Though White's status as a comedian has skyrocketed over the last decade, he is still the same whiskey-drinking, cigar-smoking roughneck he started his comedy career as more than 10 years ago. And why change a good thing? "From day one I always smoked and drank on stage," White recently told The Comedy Couch. "And I realized from a fairly young comedic age that the only common denominator between all really famous comedians was that they were basically true to their own nature."
Making no excuses for his rough-around-the-edges nature and straightforward jokes, White summed up his tactic for success by saying, "You know, it's hard to be who you really are whenever you walk on the stage. Also, if you're acting and you're just supposed to be yourself, that's the hardest thing to do. It's easier to act like something else than it is to act like yourself. So it took a long time for me to get very good at it. But I always had a really strong presence on stage."
Ron "Tater Salad" White is still evolving as a standout comedian, but his hilarious Southern humor can be gauged by audiences around the nation as he trots onward with the Behavioral Problems Tour, for which tickets can now be found online.
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