Comedian Ron White ‘Blue-Collar’ ‘Tater Salad’

Tater Salad” is a ‘blue-collar comedian’. Ron White has established himself as a star in his own right. Probably best known because of his all-black outfit and his cigar-smoking and scotch-drinking, comedian Ron White has a new album coming as well as a one-hour special on Comedy Central – and – an autobiographical book.

The ‘Blue-Collar Comedian’ Ron White has performed with Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engyall, and Larry the Cable Guy, in the $15-million grosser and critically-acclaimed 2000-2003 tour called the “Blue-Collar Comedy Tour”. After the success of the Warner Bros.-filmed tour, the tour’s movie-version also became a hit in theaters followed by another hit premier on Comedy Central. On TV, the Tater Salad’s Blue-Collar Comedy Tour became the highest-rated film in the long history of the Comedy Central channel. That is just the beginning for Ron.

From being a boy who grew up in Texas oil-country and a lad who sold windows in Arlington for a living, comedian Ron White carried his storyteller-character to perform as a headlining comedian in various venues across the US. However Tater Salad came from a very small start. He was a struggling comedian bouncing around comedy clubs and gigs driving his beat-up Nissan pickup. He was raised by his grandmother, had a serious drug problem after his Vietnam War, got clean and then spoke publicly in high schools against drug abuse. Now he is a ‘blue-collar comedy’ icon.

November of 2003, Ron White released his solo comedy debut album “Drunk In Public”. Although the album’s title is an allusion to his DUI and public drunkenness incidences, it showcased the insightful and hilarious, razor-sharp or blunt comedian Ron White. It gave him some head-on in the Billboards Comedy Charts Top 10 since 2004. The album was also ranked in the 2004 PollStar Magazine’s Top 50’s and has sold a number of 450,000 copies and over. That year also gave him another high-rated Comedy Central with his They Call Me Tater Salad (from his navy-days), Ron White’s first one-hour comedy special that also became a certified multi-platinum DVD. Meanwhile Ron White’s WB-Network Las Vegas comedy special The Ron White Show aired with 4-million viewers helping the show. His most-current second Comedy Central one-hour special You Can’t Fix Stupid (2006-filmed in Majestic Theater back in Texas) aired with 4.5-million viewers giving him the title for the 3rd largest audience for Comedy Central and #1 prime-time show on basic cable. Its CD version was released a month later premiering at #14 on the Billboards Top-200 and then ranking #1on the Billboards Comedy Charts. Comedian Ron White also had TV-appearances for The Late Show With David Letterman and The Tonight Show With Jay Leno although he says in his performance that he doesn’t have the work ethic for TV. He is the only ‘blue-collar’ crew not to star in the Blue Collar TV series though he has made seven guest-appearances on the show.

June 2006 marks the Penguin books release of Matthew Shultz illustrated Ron ‘Tater Salad’ White: I Had the Right to Remain Silent…But I Didn’t Have the Ability. He’s to reunite with the Blue Collar Boys for Blue-Collar Comedy Tour: One For The Road. The guy still drinks the $100-per-bottle Blue Label – “drunken by people that are going to die penniless.”