By the mid-eighties he had become one of the country’s most requested comedy headliners on the national club circuit. His appearances on television specials, HBO’s “Opening Night at Rodney’s Place”, Showtime’s “Comedy All Stars” and Fox Network’s “Comic Strip Live” put him in the spotlight. He performed stand-up in the 1988 film “Comedy’s Dirtiest Dozen” and took home the Cable Ace Award for Best Performance in a Comedy Special at the “Just For Laughs” International Comedy Festival in Montreal.
It was that same year that his Showtime special “Men Are Pigs” made him a favorite of audiences all over the country with his signature grunting on observations about women, men and their tools.
He followed that with another Showtime special entitled “Tim Allen Rewires America.” This concert show truly solidified his unique slant on masculinity, which became the backbone for his TV show “Home Improvement.”
So who makes Tim laugh? “Victor Borge, Jonathan Winters and Richard Pryor are the biggies but several of my comic buddies just sitting around at a deli table will absolutely slay me.”
Tim still occasionally performs stand-up at clubs around Los Angeles and at numerous charity events. He is also busy working on a new one man show.
