 Ron White - Rarely seen without a drink in one hand and a smoke in the other, comedian
Ron White has had a career that has taken him from the cassette racks of
truck stops to the world of
stadiums and feature films -- but all the while they've called him "Tater
Salad." The myth around the Fritch, TX, native's famous nickname has to do with
a flippant remark made to an arresting police officer.
Ron White told the officer that
he had once before broken the law under the sinister alias of "Tater Salad," the
officer believed him, and it was forever on his arrest record. He later admitted
that it was just something he picked up in the Navy, but he allows the myth to
flourish since being a smart-ass has been central to his act since the mid-'90s,
when he released a string of albums on Laughing Hyena, a label that catered to
truck stops with their "Trucker Humor!"-labeled releases.
In 2000
Ron White joined his longtime friends and fellow comedians
Jeff Foxworthy,
Bill Engvall, and
Larry the Cable Guy on tour. The tour would become known as the Blue Collar
Comedy tour and would play to sold-out audiences in over 90 cities by 2003. It
was in 2003 that Drunk in Public,
Ron White's first CD outside the world of truck stops, was released on the Hip-O
label. Two feature films and two albums for the Blue Collar troupe would also
appear, but
Ron White would be the only member of the group to not participate in the Blue
Collar TV series. Instead, he kept a busy schedule as a solo act, switched his
on-stage smoke from cigarettes to cigars, starred in the short-lived variety
television series The Ron White Show in 2005, and released the CD You Can't Fix
Stupid on the Image label in 2006. ~ David Jeffries, All Music Guide
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