Hello. I’m
Slade Ham
Hailing from Houston, Slade Ham has performed in more than 60 countries on six continents. His new full-length theater special, Signal/Noise, is out now. Ham has headlined Sirius/XM’s Best of Texas as well as the feature length The Whiskey Brothers Comedy Special. His latest special looks at what is and isn’t important in our lives, and it showcases his signature storytelling style alongside clever social commentary.
Offstage, you can read Until All the Dragons Are Dead, his collection of critically acclaimed stories. Ham also hosts the weekly Slade Ham Experiment, the wildly popular bi-weekly Whiskey Brothers Podcast, and is featured in over 30 episodes of Slade Runner, a travel series following his adventures around the globe. His live show is what does best, however. It’s stand-up all the way down.
Thoughts and Blogs
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Jurassic World: Rebirth
“Okay, so on to the new Jurassic movie. We’ve got a great director, the original Jurassic Park screenwriter, and a cast of A-list actors for the demographic. Do we have Pedro Pascal?” “No, he’s shooting six other shows in our window.” “Fine, just get a Mexican guy who looks like him. What about the villain?” “The script just has an evil corporate guy right now, pulled right out of central casting.” “Perfect. But I meant the monster.” “The dinosaur?” “Whatever. What have we already done?”...
Measuring Sticks
In the world of the independent artist, there aren’t obvious measuring sticks by which to judge our progress. It’s why we often compare ourselves to our friends and peers. My special has gotten 30,000 views this month. Is that extraordinary? Just ordinary? A miserable failure? How would I even know? There are only a few ways. You can Google averages and metrics, but national averages are hardly useful. You can also look at what similar artists are getting, but that is also deceptive in a world...
Survival Mode
My new stand-up show talks about how being in survival mode and being happy are mutually exclusive. In the show I use wildlife and relationships as illustrations, but it probably applies more to an artist's career. You want to be happy? You have to take yourself out of the grind first. You have to get out of clawing for the next dollar and hoping things work out. That feeling of always running - always having to think your way out of a corner – is survival mode. Have you ever seen a peacefully...
Sora and AI Film Making
There’s a lot of talk about the capabilities of Sora, the AI text-to-film generator. There’s no escaping that artificial intelligence will play an inevitable role in our entertainment from here forward. As an entertainer I worry about this, though perhaps not as much as my graphic design, fine art, photographer, and filmmaker friends. It has implications in a variety of written mediums as well, from novels to screenplays. My Kindle home page is already full of LLM-written children’s books....
