The world’s greatest storyteller and one of the few true living legends in comedy, Ron has seen it all. He began his comedy career in Houston as one of the founding members of the famous Houston Outlaws which included Ron’s long time friends, Bill Hicks, Steve Epstein, Riley Barber, John Farnetti and Andy Huggins.
Ron began doing comedy at age 40 after already having lived a full life which included being a professional jewel thief for the New Orleans mob. After given the option of jail or the military, Ron joined the military and came out with the ability to work with explosives, which led to his next career...safe cracker. He was very successful until one day...he wasn’t. He was imprisoned in LA County Jail from which he escaped...only to be caught again within minutes of breathing free air.
When leaving the maximum security prison, the guard told him that he’d be back and Ron said "No, I won’t." In fact, Ron went on to become the Vice President of a Fortune 500 company called McMillan Publishing. He eventually resigned and moved onto other publishing companies but he felt the corporate world was more crooked than his life as a criminal so one day at age 40 he just decided to walk away and told his friends that he was going to become a comedian...that was where Ron got the first laugh of his comedy career but Ron remained adament, promised them he’d never come back and that they would one day see him on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson...a goal that Ron finally achieved being THE LAST new comedian to get their break on that show. He was also the ONLY COMIC, to our understanding, in the history of The Tonight Show that had enough faith from the producers that he didn’t have to have his set pre-approved before going live on the air!
Ron has worked with everyone and on every stage in this country and beyond since 1982. From his first road gig with a young Bill Hicks and Bill Silva in an outlaw titty bar which almost led to the comedians’ deaths until headlining the Las Vegas Strip on his 65th birthday, Ron’s comedy has continued to progress as people continue to call him the world’s greatest storyteller and all the stories remain as timeless as the man himself.
Ron is on tour now visiting select cities so check the schedule to make sure you don’t miss the man, the myth, the legend...Mr. Ron Shock.
Disclaimer: Ron is just learning how to navigate MySpace. If he doesn’t respond it’s because he has forgotten how...so don’t give up on sending things...he will eventually get someone to show him...again...lol.
Website
RonShock.com
Influences
comedic influences would include:
bill hicks
bill cosby
buddy hackett
sam kinison
lenny bruce
richard pryor
Members
Just me and Rhonda.
TV Shows
"The Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson
"The Joan Rivers Show"
His own ShowTime special "Bad Gig Blues"
"Into the Night" with Rick Dees
A&E’s "An Evening at the Improv"
Fox’s "Comic Strip Live"
ShowTime’s "All Stars"
"Caroline’s Comedy Hour"
"Redneck Comedy Roundup 1 and 2"
Films
Totally Baked: A Pot-U-Mentary
Albums
Click on any of the pictures below to order my CD’s or DVD’s online and to hear audio samples from each one!
"American Storyteller"
"Dog Stories"
"Oral Roberts’ 900 ft Jesus and Other Tall Tales"
"You’re Gonna Die Anyway"
"Deep in the Heart of Texas"
All 5 CD’s plus 3 Bootleg DVD’s including footage from the early days with Bill Hicks, Sam Kinison, Brett Butler all available on Ron’s Website:
I love my wife, my job and my poker. I also would like to see all wars end...including the one on drugs. I have other interests as well.
Music
The Rolling Stones
Rock 'n Roll
Movies
My favorites:
the man who would be king
pulp fiction
apocalypse now
north by northwest
the little tramp
bedazzled (the original with dudly moore and peter cook..not the piece of shit that came out recently)
a man for all seasons
godfather 1 & 2
If you want to see me in a movie, you can check this out:
Totally Baked: A Pot-U-Mentary.
Books
ah, books; well i have some of those:
moby dick
jitterbug perfume
fierce invalids home from warm climates
tale of two cities
collected works of ralph waldo emerson
rise and fall of the third reich
killer angels
a prayer for owen meaney
naked lunch
fear and loathing on the campaign trail
fear and loathing in las vegas
better than sex
david copperfield
confederacy of dunces
perpetual war for perpetual peace
blood for oil
fast food nation
skinny legs and all
foucalt's pendulum
flowers of evil
the works of carl jung
the complete works of shakespear
i could go on and on....
Heroes
thomas jefferson
robert ingersoll
gore vidal
franklin d. roosevelt
noam chomsky
Here are some of the things others have said about me:
"A NATIONAL TREASURE...
THE FUNNIEST MAN EVER."
Guy Richardson (Reno Gazette)
"THE NEXT SUPERSTAR OF COMEDY."
Joan Rivers
"A CLASSIC...
HIS LIFE IS A VIRTUAL
PARADE OF REMARKABLE
TALES."
Bob Weider (San Francisco Chronicle)
"ONE OF THE HOTTEST COMICS
IN SHOW BUSINESS."
Entertainment Tonight
Here's the short version of the bio:
* Studied for the Priesthood
* Been on a Chain Gang in Louisiana
* Unsuccessful Jewel Thief ( Which led to...)
* Invited guest at a Maximum Security Penitentiary
* VP of a Fortune 500 Company
* Inventor with 3 patents in Electronics
*At age 40, while at the top of his profession, quitting the corporate world to become a stand-up comic. And here we are.
Rock n' Roll
Ron.
Who I'd like to meet: I suppose I'd like to find my friends and fans as well as other fine folks who love to laugh.
I'm on here because I want to meet you.
So stop by and say hello. Tell a friend. Have a laugh on me. Have a drink. Smoke a joint. Eat a Twinkie. Fuck a stranger...we're all gonna die anyway. :-)
become my friend on facebook too...I post on that page a lot...and also on my blog...if I don't respond on here, don't be discouraged...try me on my blog or on facebook as well...I try to respond to everyone, but sometimes I will admit, I am technologically challenged, so bear with me.
Ron, It's been probably 23 years since I saw you at the Comics Annex. Not to be too sentimental, but the time you pointed out the wet spot on your slacks from just being in the bath room was the funniest moment. Hope to catch your act in the near future.
I played one of your CDs for a friend of mine last month. He made me turn it off because he could not breath for laughing. That 900 foot Jesus story almost made him pass out.
