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The comic responds to the Blue Collar Comedy Tour story (July 10, not online alas) in an interview with the Austin American-Statesman:
The New Yorker recently came out with a piece that highlighted how White and the other Blue Collar Comedy Tour comics — Jeff "You Might Be a Redneck" Foxworthy, Larry the "Git'er done!" Cable Guy and Bill "Here's Your Sign" Engvall — get little respect from industry types because Hollywood can't view blue-collar America, specifically Southern accents, through anything but haughty, elitist glasses.
White and I spoke over the phone. I was in my apartment in lovely South Austin, and he was in his mansion in Atlanta.
Wait. Let's say we're playing golf on his gated community's private course. God, I'm terrible at this game.
Austin American-Statesman: So you read the New Yorker article?
Ron White: Yeah that's great. Get me real drunk in a bar after I just played for 18,000 people; see what happens next. Cont'd.
Related, kinda: Dana Goodyear's Profile of Sarah Silverman. "Her arms are long and her center of gravity is low: she is five feet seven, and moves like a vervet monkey.... [Penn Jillette] says, 'I really think that her sensibility—not her style—and her material and her ability to write and her timing would all work just as well if she looked like Gilbert Gottfried. And yet she doesn’t in any way deny who she is. That’s all you want.' "
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- Writing on theater: reviews (for Time Out Chicago; imperfect but workable search results)
- Profile: Valerie Casey, Designers Accord founder, is spearheading the design of sustainability (for SXSW World)
- Feature: Rea Irvin: visionary art director, bon vivant, New Yorker founding father (for Print)
- Slide show: the Coney Island Mermaid Parade (for NYCgo.com)
- Feature: Muslim immigration iconography in the Netherlands, and an interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali (for Print)
- Review: King's Gambit: A Son, a Father, and the World's Most Dangerous Game by Paul Hoffman (for Newsday)
- Homage: Celebrating lindy-hop legend Frankie Manning (for NYCgo.com)
- Inquiry: Does a New Republic redesign mean a change of tune? (for Print)
- Interview: James Surowiecki on what's next for the wisdom of crowds (for Assignment Zero)
- Interviews: four up-and-coming designers under 30 (for Print)
- Profile: novelist and dance critic Laura Jacobs (for Newsday)
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What is the date of the New Yorker article on the Blue Collar comedians? Thank you.
The Profile of Sarah Silverman is very interesting. She is very funny but I have only seen her on one tv show. I would like to hear more of her stand-up comedy.
The issue date for the Blue Collar Comedians piece is 7/10/06, and it’s by by Tad Friend, who I think is one of the best of the best they have writing for The New Yorker these days.