Bill Engvall on uncles
Bill Engvall64 quotes“No parents. You have Uncle Jesse, forever in overalls. Then there’s Bo and Duke. What do they do? I never saw them working for food or gas money. You can only kill so many possum.”
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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.
Bill EngvallBill Engvall A condom is a rubber thing shaped like a wiener that hums.
Bill EngvallBill Engvall You could take Vicodin, step out of the house, onto a freeway, have a truck hit you, and you’d say “My Bad!”.
Bill EngvallBill Engvall I called my wife up on the cell phone and said baby you aint gonna believe this, i go, we just hit a deer with the airplane. and there was a silence on the other end of the line followed by.. OH MY GOD.! were you on the ground? I said nope, santa was makin one last run.
Bill EngvallBill Engvall This guy from L.A. sits down next to me, and he says “you like baseball?” I said, “Oh, man, I love baseball.” So he goes “Did you know that if Jesus had played ball, he’d have been the greatest ball player ever?” Like I’m gonna argue with that logic.
Bill EngvallBill Engvall A couple of months ago I went fishing with a buddy of mine, we pulled his boat into the dock.
Bill EngvallBill Engvall I’ve never read a kayak manual, but I’m pretty sure page one says ‘Use in water.’
Bill EngvallBill Engvall The attendant walks out, looks at my truck, looks at me, and I swear he said, Tire go flat? I couldn’t resist. Said, Nope. I was driving around and those other three just swelled right up on me. Here’s your sign.
Bill EngvallBill Engvall You get one piece every four to six weeks, you don’t know what kind of shape that piece is gonna be in when you get it, but you still gotta pay the handling charges.
Bill EngvallBill Engvall God was havin’ himself a good day when he made boobs. He must’ve stepped back from Eve and said, Yes ma’am! Those’ll work.
Bill EngvallBill Engvall My neighbor comes over and he says, Did you shoot that thing? I said, Nope. He ran through the wall and got stuck. Here’s your sign.
Bill EngvallBill Engvall I swear to you, I am the cheapest drunk on the planet. It takes nothing to get me loopy and doing stupid stuff. Yeah. Some of you like that? Well… like riding an electric floor buffer for a shot of tequila. Did it!
Bill EngvallBill Engvall Last time I had a flat tire, I pulled my truck into one of those side-of-the-road gas stations.
Bill EngvallBill Engvall The girl looked at me and said, Do you have a rabbit? I looked at here and said deadpan, Nope. Just like ’em ’cause they’re crunchy. Here’s your sign.
Bill EngvallBill Engvall I was sitting on a plane that is traveling towards Seattle. And the guy next to me turns and says to me Hey, you going to Seattle?. Nope, San Francisco… I’ll be parachuting off in about an hour. Here’s your sign!
Bill EngvallBill Engvall I go “I just want a cup of black coffee.” She goes “Do you want to try a biscotti? They’re from Italy and they’re considered a delicacy.” Have you ever eaten one of these things? It tastes like a burned cookie. Where I’m from, that’s considered a mistake.
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You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?
Billy JoelBilly Joel Australians are very unfair in this way. They spend half of any conversation insisting that the country’s dangers are vastly overrated and that there’s nothing to worry about.
Bill BrysonBill Bryson I didn’t want to become a pure mathematician, as a matter of fact, my uncle was one, so I knew what the pure mathematician was and I did not want to be a pure – I wanted to do something different.
Benoit MandelbrotBenoit Mandelbrot Africa does not have an uncle abroad who will come to bail it out of its political and economic woes.
Bernard MembeBernard Membe My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who’s a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.
Benicio Del ToroBenicio Del Toro You’ve got a problem. Part of what you own isn’t yours. It belongs to Uncle Sam. May I show you how much belongs to Uncle Sam?
Ben FeldmanBen Feldman I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.
Ben BarnesBen Barnes (My proudest moment as a child was the time I beat my uncle Pierre at Scrabble with the seven-letter word FARTING.)
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