20 Years Later, Jennifer Lawrence’s First Ever TV Role Proved How Hilarious She's Always Been

Before she was an Academy Award winner, a mutant, or a Hunger Games revolutionary, Jennifer Lawrence was simply a sharp-tongued teenager on a suburban sitcom. Long before her comedy films, such as No Hard Feelings , showed us how effortlessly funny she can be, Lawrence spent two seasons developing that same comic instinct on The Bill Engvall Show . This short-lived TBS series has quietly grown into one of the most interesting footnotes of her career. To watch it now is to experience a time capsule of early 2000s sitcom culture, and a sense of someone who was already a star; it was impossible to ignore.

What Was the Bill Engvall Show About?

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Debuting in 2007, The Bill Engvall Show was TBS's attempt to rev