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Feature • Ron White -------------- Feature • James Gregory ------------- An Appetite for Humor By Deborah Kennedy Gregory refuses to go blue. “It’s more difficult to do comedy this You’d think that being known as the way. You have to work harder at it, be more funniest man in America might start to wear creative,” he said. “This is America and we on James Gregory. have our First Amendment rights. Everyone After all, everyone knows that lurking has their own taste too, but I tend to think a behind the cheerful façade of the comedian lot of comedians use vulgarity as a crutch. is a tortured soul teeming with insecurity. This is comedy how I want to do it, and it “Whatever,” Gregory said to me in a recent phone interview. “I’ve been doing this so long, when I started America was just 13 states. Nothing bothers me anymore. And I don’t want to be immodest, but my show is one of the funniest, if not the funniest, shows in America today.” Gregory got the moniker “Funniest Man in America” after ----------------- Feature • Ron White ---------------- a critic described him as such in one of his columns. Since then, the Georgia native has made liv- ing up to the title his full-time job, and while he loves what he does, he admitted that it hasn’t always been easy. “Even the comedians who Sardonic Stylings went on to become household names and have their own TV By Mark Hunter been a hard-working, touring comedian for shows, like Jay Leno or Den- nearly a quarter century before the phenom- nis Miller or Jerry Seinfeld, all Ron White is not running for president. enon that was the Blue Collar Comedy Tour those guys will tell you that there This may come as a disappointment to his launched him to the top shelf. Since then wasn’t a time during the first two fans and should be regarded as unfortunate it’s been whisky and Cubans aplenty for the or three years when for the rest of the country. White would make Fritch, Texas native. they didn’t want to an intriguing Leader of the Free World, to The Blue Collar Comedy Tour DVD quit,” Gregory said. JAMES GREGORY say the least. For instance, in a bit from a came out in 2003 and found success in the- “You have no money Friday, Sept. 23 • 7:30 p.m. few years ago White proposed solving our aters, much like the tour itself. Jeff Foxwor- and you’re always Honeywell Center debt troubles and financing our wars by sell- thy, already a Grammy-winning comedian, on the road. It’s like, ing a large part of Florida to Israel and using Bill Engvall and Larry the Cable Guy joined ‘Oh my goodness, 275 W. Market St., Wabash also makes good the cash to buy Mexico, fix it up and flip White on the tour and DVD, which went on what am I doing?’ Tix.: $25-$12 thru box office, business sense. If I it. Sounds about as reasonable as anything to sell millions. White enjoyed the success You just have to keep 260-563-1102 had an X-rated show, anyone else has come up with. of the tour but not much of the money. going and it will all Mr. and Mrs. Jones But if White’s economic recovery plan “It all happened real fast,” he said. work out.” might come. If I take out all the blue stuff, fails to stir the “Even though I had It certainly has worked out for Gregory, I can get Mr. and Mrs. Jones and their three souls of the citi- watched it happen who’ll be performing his “Beef Stew for kids and their elderly grandmother.” zenry, then there’s RON WHITE to Foxworthy, it the Brain” show Friday, September 23 at So the F-word is out, but what’s in a typi- always the main Sunday, Sept. 25 • 7:30 p.m. all came as a bit of the Honeywell Center in Wabash. A sales- cal Gregory show? First and foremost, you gauge of a per- Embassy Theatre a surprise. It was man for 10 years before he started standup, can count on a heaping helping of common son’s worthiness great to be validat- Gregory got his foot in the comedy door per- sense, which Gregory thinks is in rather to be our presi- 125 W. Jefferson Blvd., Fort Wayne ed as a comedian, forming at open mic nights at Atlanta’s The short supply at the moment. His big beef? dent: Is the can- Tix: $54.75-$44.75 thru box but it sucked that I Punchline comedy club. People who blame fast food companies for didate someone didn’t get to keep “Comedy’s not something I aspired to the obesity epidemic. you’d like to have office, 260-424-5665 any of the money do. I didn’t start at an early age like a lot “I think it’s stupid, stupid, stupid for a a beer with? Or in from it. Warner of comedians out there who get into it right generation of Americans to actually want the White’s case, a glass of Scotch. After talking Brothers took it all. But the next time around out of college or high school,” he said. “I al- government or McDonald’s to answer for with him and getting the rundown of bottles the movie (The Blue Collar Comedy Tour ways enjoyed comedy, though. My favorite the fact that their kid’s fat,” he said. “Okay. he’s got sitting on his bar, I know my an- Rides Again) and the tour were just as suc- thing to do when I was a kid was stay up late So your kid is nine years old. He has no car. swer is a resounding yes. The man knows his cessful, made a bunch of money, and I kept on school nights when my parents thought I He can’t drive. You’re the adult. You have to whisky. all of it.” was in bed and watch the comedians on ‘The provide the transportation. You have to put “Let’s see. I’ve got a bottle of 18-year- White, in his black sports jackets, was Tonight Show’ and ‘Ed Sullivan.’ Much later the fat booger in your car and drive his fat old Macallan, a 30-yeard-old Mac, a the more sophisticated member of those I’d go to The Punchline after work for ama- butt to McDonald’s. Am I right?” 25-year-old Mac, a 30-year-old Glenlivet, tours, but he came to comedy from a not so teur night. My friends thought I was funny In addition to taking on stupid rela- a 15-year-old Glenmorangie and a whole sophisticated background. White did a stint and dared me to go up on stage. I guess it tives, obsession with the weather, health ad- bunch more.” in the Navy, where he earned the nickname whetted my appetite.” dicts and out-of-control environmentalists, For a man whose trademark is perform- Tater Salad because he really liked potato It turned out to be a large appetite. Gregory likes to sit down at the end of the ing always with a glass of Scotch and a cigar, salad. After the Navy he started follow- Gregory’s now been entertaining audiences show and treat fans to his most popular bit a bar like that surely must be a legitimate ing his dream of being a comedian. But the around America for 30 years. One of the se- in which he portrays a fat lady who tells the business expense, like Mr. Roger’s sweaters going was rough, and for years he drove a crets behind his staying power could be the audience she’s going on a diet, just not quite and Gallagher’s sledge hammers. beat-up Nissan pickup truck to gigs. When fact that his shows are suitable for all ages. yet. White may be drinking on the high side the gigs were few and far between he sold That’s right. Despite the fact that the F-bomb now, but until the early part of this century guarantees you at least a few cheap laughs, Continued on page 14 his bar bill likely had fewer zeros. White had Continued on page 14 September 15, ’11 ------------------------------------------------------------- www.whatzup.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------5 JAMES GREGORY - From Page 5 “Everyone knows a woman like that. She’s your Gregory said he’s able to portray a large woman grandmother, your mother-in-law, your aunt, your convincingly partially because he’s a big man himself neighbor,” Gregory said. “She’s always going to go – a big man who loves life and food and won’t be go- on a diet, starting tomorrow. The bit’s gotten so popu- ing on a diet anytime soon. lar I had to put it at the end of the show. If I tried to “I’ve got a little bit of money in the bank and a do anything after it, it just fell flat. I couldn’t follow whole lot of meat in the freezer,” he said. “And I’m myself.” above ground. I’m just glad I woke up this morning.” RON WHITE - From Page 5 windows to make ends meet. do it for charity or something.” Then, thanks to the Blue Collar stuff, ends didn’t White seemingly always has a glass of Scotch in just meet, they crashed together with tremendous one hand, a cigar in the other, and a wry smile on his force.
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