Comedian Craig Shoemaker has been active in the entertainment business since the '80s, earning his greatest success in the area of standup comedy, where he was named America's Male Stand-Up Comic of the Year at the 1997 American Comedy Awards. Shoemaker grew up near the Philadelphia area and got his start in television on a local program called Saturday Night Dead; he eventually relocated to Los Angeles in 1987, and soon found himself on cable comedy showcases like An Evening at the Improv and Comic Strip Live. He became a writer for the Growing Pains spinoff Just the Ten of U...