
Timothy Allen Dick was born in Denver, Colorado on June 13, 1953, to Martha Katherine (Fox) and Gerald M. Dick. Tim was eleven years old when his father, a real estate salesman, was killed in a car accident with a drunk driver while driving his family home from a University of Colorado football game. Two years after Tim’s father died, his mother, a community service worker, remarried her high school sweetheart, an Episcopal deacon. He was raised alongside his numerous siblings and step-siblings. Tim’s family relocated to Birmingham, Michigan when he was a child.
Allen began his comedy career in 1975. He went to a comedy night at Mark Ridley’s Comedy Castle in Royal Oak, Michigan, on the advice of one of his friends. While in Detroit, he gained notoriety by appearing in local television commercials and on cable comedy shows such as Gary Thison’s Some Semblance of Sanity. He returned to comedy after his release from prison in 1981. He relocated to Los Angeles and became a regular at The Comedy Store.
Meanwhile, William Ray Engvall Jr., born July 27, 1957, is a stand-up comedian and actor best known for his work as a member of the Blue Collar Comedy group and his signature “Here’s Your Sign” bit. Bill Engvall relocated to Southern California in 1990 to pursue comedy full-time. He rose to prominence after co-hosting the cable show A Pair of Jokers with Rosie O’Donnell and appearing on The Golden Palace as Blanche’s son Matthew, a stockbroker turned aspiring comic. Other early credits include hosting A&E Networks’ An Evening at The Improv and performing stand-up routines on The Tonight Show and The Late Show with David Letterman. This shows that Tim Allen and Bill Engvall have some occupational similarities.
Are Tim Allen and Bill Engvall friends?
Yes! They are friends. The fluidity between the two on set is easily replicated off-camera, as Allen stated simply that it never feels like work when he’s working with Engvall, given their decades-long friendship.
“We spend most of [the time]… I mean, it’s really a blessing in disguise because we just B.S. the whole time about roadwork,” Allen said of their working relationship.
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