![]() ![]() ![]() ‘Do it again! Do it again! Make another one!’ It’s like … He made a great blade of grass. Chesterton who talks about the mundane and ‘Why does God make so many things?’” Hawkins explained. “They say that the devil’s in the details, but I think it’s more that God is detailed, like in creation. Becoming a professional meant finding small things that add up to quality. Recognizing his growth as a performer, Hawkins said it was mostly in the details. “If I knew how bad I was at the beginning, I would’ve quit a long time ago, but I think that the passion to do it was so strong that even when I failed at it, I would want to keep doing it.” It was more desperation than anything that got me into comedy - I didn’t have many other options. ![]() It was just the great unknown - going out there and finding your way. “You just go where your gut takes you and where you think you have some skill,” Hawkins concluded. “The joke is I was making six figures, but there was a decimal. “The good thing about it was that I wasn’t leaving a six-figure job,” Hawkins said. His wife is the one who encouraged him to make the leap and go into full-time comedy. Hawkins enjoyed entertaining most of his life but wavered about making it his career. You kind of have to find groups of people and have them face towards you and do your best to get them to listen to what you have to say.” Career choice Now a self-described “under-the-radar celebrity,” Hawkins has spent the last 25 years or so “giving laughter” to crowds who need it. It’s similar to an addiction, filling a deeper need, a deeper longing, he said. The first time Tim Hawkins got a laugh, he knew he had found his passion. ![]()
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