For almost four decades George Wallace
has been a stand-up comic, writer and an actor. He start working the
comedy club circuit with other rising stars like Jerry Seinfeld,
Rodney Dangerfield, Roseanne Barr and Jay Leno. That is where he
developed his style of observational humor that keeps us all in
stitches and wanting more. Over the next three decades he worked his
way to Las Vegas were he has become one of the premiere headlining
acts.
Outside of all the success Mr. Wallace
ha enjoyed there have been several things most people don't know
about him. Here are five of those little known facts:
In
April of 2014 George Wallace was awarded $1.3 million dollars over an
injury he sustained at the Bellagio hotel & casino back in
December of 2007. The jury found that loose wires on the stage lead
to an Achilles tendon injury that Mr. Wallace suffered during a
stand-up routine he was performing. After he was granted the award,
Mr. Wallace said, “I’d
rather have a good foot than have the money.”
Even though the
injury has healed Mr. Wallace still has a limp.
In the fall of
2013 Mr. Wallace wrote a humorous and inspirational book about how we
all have struggles in life and the medicine Is too keep our sense of
humor and try to find something to laugh about. In his book “Laff
it off” he brings his style of looking at everyday situation to the
written page showing that the best way to keep from letting life make
us bitter is to find a glimmer of humor.
In 1999 George
Wallace stood up as the best man at the wedding of his long-time
friend Jerry Seinfeld. The two comedians became good friends in 1980
when they were both rising stand-ups on the club circuit. Over the
years since then their careers had taken then on different paths of
success. Where ever those paths took them they would stay in touch
and when Mr. Seinfeld decided to take the plunge he called up his
long-time friend to be by hi side at the wedding.
At almost a decade
into his career Mr. Wallace was asked to be a writer on “The Redd
Foxx Show”. He spent one season writing for the show before his
longing to be on the stage called him back to resume his stand up
routine.
Ever since he was
6 year-old George Wallace wanted to be a comedian. Different events
in his life would prevent him from achieving that dream for the next
19 years. One of those events was his mother dyeing when he 16
years-old. After that he moved halfway across the country where he
went work for Firestone. The next phase of his journey was to at an
ad agency. It was while working there a client invited him to his
comedy club where he was a hit.
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