{"id":8557,"date":"2015-12-17T22:45:57","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T03:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/?p=8557"},"modified":"2016-01-08T15:51:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T20:51:09","slug":"top-50-stand-up-comedians-ron-white-aziz-ansari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2015\/12\/17\/top-50-stand-up-comedians-ron-white-aziz-ansari\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 50 Stand-Up Comedians: Ron White, Aziz Ansari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/12\/azizansari.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8585\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/12\/azizansari.jpg\" alt=\"azizansari\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/12\/azizansari.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/12\/azizansari-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/12\/azizansari-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">28. Ron White<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ron \u201cTater Salad\u201d White is truly one of a kind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rising to fame during the unbearable \u201cBlue Collar Comedy Tour,\u201d White could easily have faded into obscurity behind the massive personalities of Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy. Instead, he quickly became the best part of the tour and soon separated himself as the only one of those four with much crossover appeal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oddly enough, although their physical appearances and cultures couldn\u2019t be much further apart, both of today\u2019s comedians succeed using a very similar formula. Both use immediately recognizable voices and cadence combined with engaging and memorable story-telling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">White\u2019s stories oftentimes even carry over from one special to the next, so we can get updates on the arrest history of he and his son \u201cTater Tot.\u201d Where some comedians of his ilk seem to be relying on it, White was decrying that \u201cYou Can\u2019t Fix Stupid.\u201d He promotes wisdom and wit while staying grounded through the process of heavy doses of self-deprecation.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He also provides a unique voice in mainstream comedy that tends to be populated by people from northern states or bigger cities. He drinks and he smokes on stage. He has no filter. And once you hear about the time Ron White got thrown out of a bar in New York, or the time he fell off a stage on a yacht performing comedy for his wife\u2019s friends, you will never forget it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"702\" height=\"395\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/neUaSTSKFZc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">27. Aziz Ansari<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Aziz Ansari is my Jerry Seinfeld. People tell me Jerry\u2019s jokes and shows remind them so much of their own life. Well, I happened to grow up as a geeky, awkward introvert who was unpopular with girls and was always making an ass of myself. So \u2026 Aziz is my spirit animal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ansari and one more comedian higher on this list were the first two stand-ups in the modern age that I ever heard talk about these subjects in a way that reflected my own experiences. So many comedians talk about relationships and sex and meeting people in bars and how complicated partying life can be, but Ansari talks about how all that stuff looks to those of us who were never invited to the party and\/or weren\u2019t that interested in going to begin with.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Aziz is the voice of a generation of people looking around at our peers wondering \u201cis that what I\u2019m supposed to be doing to have fun?\u201d He is clever, aware, and exceptional at physical comedy, giving him a massive tool-kit to draw from for satirizing millennials and modern society in general. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That Aziz Ansari has achieved success on TV and in film is a testament to his ability and charm and proof that effective communication can bring the mainstream to you. Aziz is a genius in my book and a comfort to anyone who has ever felt like an outsider.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"702\" height=\"395\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NqB2X7-j9KQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>28. Ron White Ron \u201cTater Salad\u201d White is truly one of a kind. Rising to fame during the unbearable \u201cBlue Collar Comedy Tour,\u201d White could easily have faded into obscurity behind the massive personalities of Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy. Instead, he quickly became the best part of the tour and soon separated<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2015\/12\/17\/top-50-stand-up-comedians-ron-white-aziz-ansari\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":8585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[1052,1446,3051,2771],"class_list":{"0":"post-8557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-aziz-ansari","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-ron-white","11":"tag-stand-up-comedy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}