Over the past three decades, Hawkins has gone from opening bits at regional comedy clubs to headlining 90-minute sets nationwide and 100 performances per year in front of audiences numbering in the thousands. So you just try to find an audience and start doing your thing.” There was no school of Hogwarts for comedy. I worked customer support jobs,” he shares.

Really, I tell people I do comedy out of desperation.

“I think I knew comedy was my calling, if you will, because I would fail at it, but I would not even think about quitting. His “day job” might have paid the bills, but once he found himself on stage tickling the audience’s funny bone, Hawkins realized he might have just discovered his destiny. Peters, Missouri’s Funny Bone Comedy Club. While he was serving up pasta and never-ending salad and breadsticks to customers, some of his fellow co-workers encouraged the natural entertainer to sign up for an open mic night at St. But for Tim Hawkins, at one time, it was reality. It's not every day that your local waiter at Olive Garden moonlights as a comedian.

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