Here’s Your Sign By Comedian Bill Engvall (Paperback)
In 1992, comedian Bill Engvall was awarded Best Male Standup at the American Comedy Awards, and moved into sitcom TV with an appearance on Designing Women and a regular role on the short-lived spin-off Delta.
One of Bill’s signature stand-up comedy routines involves why some people need a sign right on the front of their shirt to identify them as stupid or not.
In Bill’s book Here’s Your Sign, you will find more than 200 of Bill Engvall’s favorite Here’s Your Sign jokes and anecdotes. This book also contains Bill’s funniest product warnings such as the fan-belt package that says, “stop motor before applying the product”, and a few of his best stories.
Here’s just a small sampling of the hilarious material you will find in this book:
A trucker got his rig caught under a low overpass and a cop comes along.
“You get your rig stuck?”
” Nope.” says the trucker. “I was delivering this overpass and ran out of gas.”
“Well then, here’s your sign!”
A little more about the author:
In 1996, Engvall released his countrified debut album, Here’s Your Sign — also the title of his most famed bit — in 1996 A tour with like-minded everyman comic Jeff Foxworthy was next; that in turn led to a part on Foxworthy’s sitcom that was as brief as the show itself.
In mid-2000, Engvall released Now That’s Awesome and embarked on the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, again with Foxworthy, as well as Larry the Cable Guy and Ron White.
Other stand-up comedy albums include 2002′s Cheap Drunk: An Autobiography and 2003′s Here’s Your Sign: Reloaded.
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I should also mention that Bill Engvall was the comedian I modeled my own conversational and topic based stand-up comedy style after, which is what the Killer Stand-up Comedy System is based on — NOT trying to string “jokes” together the old school way.
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Steve,
Gunesh’s comments help prove what you’ve been trying to tell us, funny doesn’t always read funny. A lot of what makes the act funny is the voice inflections and body language. And keeping it personal is important too. I think you’ve also talked about laughter being contagious (like when you talk about larger audiences generating more laugher than small audiences).
This commenter just help you make some of the points you’ve been trying to drive home to us.
Maybe you know what you’re talking about, after all?
Thanks for being our teacher and mentor.
When I read this book I thought I was going to hurt myself. The next best thing to this book is seeing Bill Engvall in person.
After watching Blue Collar Comedy Tour (The Movie) many times, I was disappointed with the book. I’m a huge fan of bill Engvall’s Here’s Your Sign segment on the movie, but the book just wasn’t the same. It’s funnier on TV when you can hear Bill Engvall’s voice, and the audience reaction. The jokes in the book just weren’t that funny, partially because they weren’t delivered live.
I did enjoy the segments with personal stories, as opposed to Here’s Your Sign jokes. The personal jokes were very funny, and I laughed a lot.
This book is one you’ll kind of have to flip through…reading it straight through gets boring.
As I read this book, I could hear Mr. Engvall’s voice. His delivery and timing are as good in his writing as in his shows. You will find a piece of yourself in many of these hilarious stories. Highly recommended.