Here are eight things to know about comedian Ron White, who returns to the Adler Theatre in Davenport on Saturday, after having played the downtown venue in 2004 and ‘06:

1. He’s got a TV show coming up on Comedy Central.

“Ron White’s Weekly Buzz,” scheduled to debut later this year, combines his stand-up act with segments based on his albums, including “You Can’t Fix Stupid” and “Behavioral Problems.”

“It’s not a very complicated show,” he said in a telephone interview from his home in Atlanta.

The first two shows were taped last week, and White said he panicked two weeks before that because he didn’t feel like the writers had captured his voice.

“They swore that somebody else could write it and I could just go out and do it, but that’s bull ...,” said White, who added that he eventually was very pleased with the finished product.

2. He won’t release any more CDs.

“I doubt I’ll do another record,” he said. “Behavioral Problems,” his third album, was released in April.

“It’s just so difficult to reinvent it. Not like I’m going to tour with the same show — it always evolves — but it’s so hard to go out and start from ground scratch zero and build an entire new show. Most people don’t have four albums in them that are worth anything anyway,” he said. “I don’t want to overstay my welcome.”

3. He’s living in the now, but unsure about tomorrow.

“We all know it’ll come to an end, we just don’t know when,” said the comedian, who gained fame on the Blue Collar Comedy Tour. “It’s flourishing, ticket sales are through the roof and I couldn’t be happier about that.”

In five years, “My goal is to still be touring and doing some minimal television, if those things are still going then. If it all falls to pieces tomorrow, I sell two big houses and move into a small house on a lake in Texas and go fishing. I’m set up to retire, I just don’t want to,” the 52-year-old said. “And if I don’t work, I can’t keep the plane. I don’t want the plane to go away. Someday I’ll be sitting in a double-wide with shag carpet with a plane out front with weeds growing through it.”

4. It takes a lot of work to look so casual.

“People think guys like George (Carlin) or me walk up on stage and start talking and it’s hilarious, but that’s just not the truth at all,” he said. “I may have lost a few tickets saying this, but it’s contrived. It’s written, it’s thought-out, the pauses are where they’re supposed to be. Carlin was exacting that way, too.”

5. He'll break from the past and do some of his recorded material.

“If I’ve ever had a complaint from fans, it’s that I don’t do anything off the records, which is a good complaint to have,” he said. “This time I will be doing stuff off the record.”

6. Material and delivery hold equal balance.

“It’s got to be a combination of both, like the lyrics and the tune. If the tune (stinks), the song (stinks),” he said. “I can’t make a bad joke work because of good delivery, and if you butcher a good joke, it doesn’t work either.”

7. He’s always working on new material.

“I bang this stuff out onstage. I go to open-mike night when I’m in L.A., every night I’m off, to try new stuff,” he said. “You have to get off your (butt) and get out there.”

8. He’s laughing about his September arrest for marijuana possession.

“It’s nothing,” said White, who talked about the arrest on his album. “It was seven-eighths of a gram of medical marijuana that I had a prescription for in my pocket — not from a doctor in Haiti, but one in California, which is part of America.”

He disagrees with American drug laws, but that’s all. “If anybody knows me very well, they know I’m not soft on crime at all,” he said.