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Ron Shock [1942-2012] American

Rank: 103
Comedian

Howard Ronald "Ron" Shock was an American comedian and storyteller who was best known for his reenactments of stories that he extracted from newspapers.

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It has been a wonderful life for me. It's just been a blessing. I can't say I would have done it any other way. I have no regrets. I like what I do.		101
Fortunately for me, or unfortunately, they made me an editor of the Parish Prison Pelican. I could read and write, and I had a way with words.		102
I'm an orator, a raconteur.		103
If the Bible is correct, and the Earth is only 6,000 years old, that means there were no dinosaurs, and museum curators have been messing with us. Or the dinosaurs were here, and we never noticed them. Or a lot of people saw them but didn't want to say anything.		104
I have a routine I go through on the days that I work, and I don't want to divert from that.		105
I look at things logically. The humor I do is to go from A to B to C to D, and F is the funny.	Humor	106
I'm a storyteller. I'm not like any other comic. I tell detailed stories - not made-up stuff, but true stories.		107
I came to Vegas because I wanted to, not because I thought it could help my career. I didn't even know they had comedy clubs here.		108
Each piece I tell stands on its own, and then it all ties together. It segues from story to story, and then I wrap it up - like three-piece movements in a symphony.		109
I only have eight jokes, but I can do 'em over a two-hour period of time.		110
There's probably been very few people in comedy that have a diversified background as I do.		111
Most people are used to the T.V. comedy method of one joke every 18 seconds. And that's why it's not funny... There's no time for anything to develop.		112
I didn't get rich and famous, but I do what I love.		113
I prefer to have one gigantic laugh preceded by several smaller laughs rather than a bunch of medium laughs all along.		114
I can't write a joke. I could never write. I do a lot of stories and I call them stories, but they're just comedy recitals on a given subject.		115
I always wanted to be a comedian, but I wasn't sure how you do that.		116

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