Ron Shock

*** The Tonight Show NBC *** Showtime Special - 'Bad Gig Blues' *** Showtime's Comedy Club All-Stars Ron Shock is one of the original famed Houston Outlaw Comics, with Sam Kinison and Bill Hicks. Their attack-reality approach to comedy reverberated from Texas and changed the face of comedy for many. Called by the Houston Chronicle 'a latter-day Will Rogers', Ron has a style almost extinct in today’s sound bite world - he is a raconteur, a storyteller supreme. And to add more spice to the show, all the stories are true – usually things that have happened to him personally. For Ron there is certainly no shortage of experiences to draw from. At some point in his life, Ron has been a convict, an international businessman, a public speaker, a professional gambler, a boy scout leader, a boxer, an inventor, a music festival promoter, a theology student, and finally one of the grittiest and funniest comics in the country.