Bill Engvall was the first headlining comedian I had ever experienced — I was 33 years old at the time. It was at the Improv Comedy Club at the end of 1992 (the comedy club died the next year).

I laughed so hard that night my ribs were sore for two days.

That single event set the level of laughter that I wanted to achieve in my own stand-up comedy career.

Now Bill Engvall has become one of America’s top comedians and has scored #1 albums earning platinum and gold status, out-selling super star comedians like Chris Rock, Adam Sandler and Jerry Seinfeld.

He has also starred in “Blue Collar TV” and the Blue Collar Comedy Tour movies, whose original documented the most successful comedy tour in years.

Bill recently participated in the final installment of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, appearing on the One For The Road CD and DVD. His newest CD and DVD,15º Off Cool, filmed at the Paramount Theatre in Austin, TX, features all-new material.

As a new or aspiring comedian, Bill Engvall is a comedy master to study and lean from, especially if you use the newer, harder hitting, conversational style of stand-up comedy as detailed in the Killer Stand-up Online Course.

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Aged and Confused

As I mentioned before, Bill Engvall was the first headlining comedian that I ever saw perform. It was at the San Diego Improv in 1992.

And let me say this: I laughed so hard my sides hurt for two days.

From the multi-platinum comedian that brought you the #1 comedy albums Here’s Your Sign, 15 Degrees Off Cool, Now That’s Awesome! and Dorkfish, comes the newest release from Bill Engvall, Aged and Confused.

Bill’s ability to entertain audiences with his stand-up comedy is amazing and he had a great influence on the level of laughter I wanted to generate with my own stand-up comedy act.

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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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