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Bill Engvall

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Also known as William Ray "Bill" Engvall, Jr., William Ray Engvall, Jr., William Engvall, Jr., William Ray Engvall, William Engvall

American comedian and actor

Person · Open Library

Works
6

Top works

  • Just a guy
  • Here's Your Sign
  • You don't have to be dumb to be stupid

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1957-07-27
comedystandup comedy

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
75,901
Total plays
767,107

Tags

comedystand-up comedystandup comedystand-upchristmas

William Ray ("Bill") Engvall, Jr. (born 27 July 1957 in Galveston, Texas) is an American comedian best known for his work as a stand-up comic, and as a member of the Blue Collar Comedy group. Starting his career on the Television show Designing Women, Engvall hit his acclaimed first "big break" when he went on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, and from there won the American Comedy Awards Comic of the Year, landing then on the television show Delta Burke, which lasted for one year, and from

via Last.fm · Bill Engvall

Quotes

  • [playing golf with his friends]
  • I might've tried bungee jumping, until I saw that video of that guy whose cord came untied. He didn't know it 'till he hit the ground. Oh, he flew off that tower, hollerin' at his buddies, "Whoo! Whoa, check me out, dudes! Whoo, that ground is coming up..."—BAM! And what do you say, if you're the operator of that ride, to the next guy in line? "All right, dude– you're up."
  • [about an incident in a coffee shop]
  • [during a bit about dogs]
  • [about how people in the 90's used "awesome" wrongly]
  • [watching a baseball game in Los Angeles]

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