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BILL ENGVALL
Blue Collar Comedy
The thing that makes any entertainer successful is the ability to connect with an audience. It's the quality of sharing the humor in everyday situations that has made Bill Engvall one of the top comedians today and among the busiest.
Bill will be starring in THE BLUE COLLAR COMEDY TOUR movie with Jeff Foxworthy featuring special guests Larry The Cable Guy and Ron White. The movie is set for a release date in the first quarter of 2003. The tour has grossed more than twelve million dollars since it began in 2000 and has been the top grossing comedy tour for the past two years. The foursome also released THE BLUE COLLAR COMEDY TOUR LIVE CD (Scream Marketing).
Engvall will be releasing his fifth comedy album in September of 2002 on Warner Bros. Records. The album titled "Cheap Drunk" will also feature his singing and songwriting debut. He has released four additional comedy albums and his debut HERE'S YOUR SIGN (Warner Bros. May 96) has been certified Platinum, selling more than one million copies. It held the #1 position on the Billboard Comedy Chart for 15 straight weeks, peaked at #5 on Billboard's Current Country Album Chart, and reached the Top 50 on Billboard's Top 200 Album Chart.
Collaborating with musician Travis Tritt on a video also entitled HERE'S YOUR SIGN, Bill became a fixture on the play lists of CMT and TNN while the single of the same name became the most requested single on country radio. The single was ranked #1 on Billboard's Country Singles Sales Chart for ten weeks and reached the Top 30 on the Billboard's Singles Sales Chart, which cover all genres of music. The HERE'S YOUR SIGN single also achieved Gold status, not a common occurrence in the country market. In 1997, Engvall won the "Best Selling Comedy Album" award at the annual NARM convention, outselling albums by Chris Rock and Adam SandIer.
Bill's second CD DORKFISH (Warner Bros., October '98), which has been certified gold selling more than 500,000 copies, had the honor of being ranked #1 on Billboard's Comedy Chart, surpassing Jerry Seinfeld's album. In December of 1999, Warner Bros. released HERE'S YOUR CHRISTMAS ALBUM, Engvall's third album which was filled with songs destined to become Christmas classics: "Rudolph Got A DUI," "I Am Being Sued By Santa Claus," and Bill's all time favorite, "Fruitcake Makes Me Puke."
His fourth comedy album entitled NOW THAT'S AWESOME! (BNA Records/Nashville) earned the honor of #1 on Billboard's Comedy Charts and was highlighted in USA TODAY. No matter how many he records he sells, Engvall says he would never give up performing live. Bill says, "When you're doing stand-up, you achieve an intimacy with the audience you can't get on TV. There's not a better feeling in the entire world then when you look out and see the audience is identifying with you."
A native of Galveston, Texas, Engvall moved to Dallas and was working as a disc jockey with plans of becoming of a teacher. While in a nightclub one evening, Bill decided to try his hand at stand-up comedy and quickly found that making people laugh was truly his forte. Engvall then made the move to Los Angeles to pursue television opportunities.
First there was a Showtime special, "A Pair of Joker's" with Rosie O'Donnell, followed by Bill hosting A&E's "Evening at the lmprov" and several appearances on both "The Tonight Show" and the "Late Show with David Letterman." In 1992, Bill won the American Comedy Award for "Best Male Stand-up Comedian." After appearing in episodes of "Designing Women," Engvall went on to portray Buck Overton on the ABC sitcom "Delta" starring Delta Burke, thus solidifying his status as a sought-after comic. Bill also starred in the NBC series "The Jeff Foxworthy Show" where he played Jeff's best friend. Engvall also hosted the television show SOFA CINEMA for TNN. Bill's humor has also extended into the world of books with the publication of "You Don't Have To Be Dumb To Be Stupid" (Longstreet Press).
Bill resides in Southern California with his wife and two children.
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