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About Me

I am a Pittsburgh native. I went to Emerson College in Boston on Sallie Mae's bank roll. I moved to LA to do improvisation and sketch and trained at the Improv Olympic for two years. I moved back to Pittsburgh in 2005 and I have been opening and featuring for National Headliners all over the area and have been a regular on-air guest of the WDVE morning show for the past year and a half. The Pittsburgh Improv headlined me in December of last year...and it sold out! They have now given me an opportunity to have my own nite! I am using this show as a way to bring a new form of entertainment to the Improv stage and to showcase the local talent we have here in this City. I guarentee it will be like no show you have seen. There will be stand-up sure, but each show will also feature a variety of video's, characters, sketches and music to make sure of that. The show is called "THE WORST WEDNESDAY EVER" and you can visit the Improv's myspace page for further details. Please come out and support, I promise you wont be disapointed...with Bill Crawford. Also check out my "DIESEL PRESENTS COMIC FUEL" blog for a new monthly showcase in the Southside beginning September 20th!Pittsburgh Improv Intro

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My Interests

How the Crusades began; when Pope Urban II gave that rousing speech at Clermont with all the vigor and prestige of a true orator and summoned all of feudal Europe to take up the cross and reclaim Jerusalem. They would assemble at Constantinople and march three thousand miles to the Holy City. Robed men and knights walked along side peasants and woman under the canopy of Christendom. It would be a pilgrimage, and it would also be a war. A bunch of crazy ass shit happens along the way, then they capture the city, killing everyone inside, gutting the women and children, festooning the temples with their entrails, then they lose it again to Saladin, the Muslem leader. History fuckers...History!

I'd like to meet:

LITE LAUGHS GOES TO CARNIVORES!! CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS TO THE IMPROV!

Music:

I'm not familiar.

Movies:

Also known as "Films," these are usually one and a half hours in length. Theyre composed of celluloid images projected onto a "silver screen" and try to convey a story. You'll get some good ones here and there, but for the most part theyre crap.

Books:

Native Son--Invisible Man--An Empire of Their Own--Guns, Germs and Steel--Wired, The Fast Times and Short Life of John Belushi-----The Hollywood Connection--The Alchemist--Still Life with Woodpecker--Iron Men and Saints--Indecent Exposure---Into Thin Air----The Comedy Writer-----Catcher in the Rye------Slaughterhouse Five-----People's History of the United States-----The Last Lecture------- 1984

Heroes:

Jesus, Yaweh, Krishna, Buddha, Mohammed, Elron Hubbard, Howard Beale, Bill Hicks, Harry Potter, Ishmael, Valentine Michael Smith, Al Gore, Bigger Thomas, George Carlin, Beck Weathers, Brett Michaels, Peter Farrelly, Holden Caulfield, Winston Smith, Hunter S Thompson, Billy Pilgrim, Saul Williams, Howard Zinn and Randy Pausch.

My Blog

The Pimp Letters

I found this letter when I was cleaning out my basement recently. The actual date it was written is unknown, but boning was on the table or as she spells it boneing, so my guess is around 1995. Howeve...
Posted by Bill Crawford on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:07:00 PST

LITE LAUGHS

This year I have entered into a sponsorship with Miller Lite. They wanted to do something new in 2008 and thought a comedy show could be really cool and fun. Side Note: I am trying to be professional ...
Posted by Bill Crawford on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:05:00 PST

HOW THINGS GOT TO BE THIS WAY

THIS IS MY ONE MAN SHOW. I PERFORM STAND-UP, SHOWCASE VIDEOS, AND DO CHARACTERS TO EXPALIN HOW THINGS GOT TO BE THIS WAY. THE SHOW IS DECEMBER 19TH AT THE PITTSBURGH IMPROV IN THE WATERFRONT. TICKETS ...
Posted by Bill Crawford on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 12:14:00 PST

DIESEL PRESENTS COMIC FUEL

DIESEL COMEDY CLUB IS RUNNING A COMDY NIGHT CALLED "COMIC FUEL" AND THE NEXT SHOW IS THURSDAY NOVEMBER 15TH. HERE IS THE LINE-UP:TERRY JONESSHAUN BLACKHAMBILL SCOTTI WILL BE HOSTING SO COME HANG OUT W...
Posted by Bill Crawford on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 03:59:00 PST

TRIBUNE REVIEW ARTICLE (Pittsburgh's Comedy Scene is Funny Business) MAY 24th

Jim Krenn remembers being attacked by a drunken little person during his comedy set at a biker bar.Bill Crawford says his worst gig was at a suburban country club, playing to senior citizens, some of ...
Posted by Bill Crawford on Mon, 28 May 2007 08:32:00 PST

The Rebirth of a Nation

TOUGH CALL Or THE REBIRTH OF A NATION With the coming of Election day, so to come some serious decisions and none more serious than these. You have got to decide wether you are on th...
Posted by Bill Crawford on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 11:57:00 PST