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Often called The world’s greatest storyteller and one of the few true living legends in comedy, Ron Shock has seen it all. He began his comedy career in Houston, as one of the founding members of the famous Houston Outlaw Comics, 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 being 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 L.A. 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 adamant, 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 most everyone and on most every stage in this country and abroad since 1982. From his first road gig with a young Bill Hicks and Bill Silva in an outlaw biker's bar which almost led to the comedians’ deaths, to later 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 legend himself.

Ron has appeared on television and in movies many times over the years. Here are just a few:

"The Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson, "The Joan Rivers Show", Ron Shock's 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", Totally Baked: A Pot-U-Mentary.

All of the information above was compiled during the making of Mr. Shock's historical documentary (currently being filmed)and gleaned from various sources, including the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Sun Times, the Oakland Tribune, USA Today, the United States Army, the United States Government, court documents, film recordings of live, published interviews with Bill Hicks and other stars, various other newspapers across the country, interviewing multiple staff from each of the previously mentioned television shows and films and many, many other sources.

Ronshockcomedy (talk) 17:54, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

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