by Slade | Mar 30, 2018 | Comedy
I have a crazy obsession with octopuses. Nothing is more unusual to me, like they were designed in a Build-a-Bear by some fearless kid. “How many arms?” Eight! “What?! You’re only building one animal here.” Yeah, so? And put suckers on...
by Slade | Jan 22, 2018 | Comedy
As anyone who’s ever seen me live can vouch for, I’m no stranger to hecklers. I especially expect it from rowdy late show crowds in Texas. In Fort Worth this past weekend, I stumbled on a gem of a pair. A guy was in the front row seated next to a girl,...
by Slade | Dec 18, 2017 | Comedy, Current Events
Who is Walter Palmer? Don’t Google him, just run him through your memory’s filters and we’ll get back to it. We live in a culture of outrage. In my line of work, one of the things I have to do so deftly is walk the tightrope between empathy and calling out bullshit. ...
by Slade | Oct 6, 2017 | Comedy
You will hear a lot of Ralphie May stories in the next few days, I’m sure. Ralphie and I go back nearly twenty years. We shared the stage together a million times as I was coming up. He played the club I owned a million times too. When I shut it down and went out on...
by Slade | Oct 3, 2017 | Comedy
My mailing list goes out on Tuesdays, but I usually write these posts somewhere during the preceding week. This one happens to be on a Monday, and my inner dialogue has gone something like this all day. “Have you written this week’s post for your mailing list,...
by Slade | Sep 22, 2017 | Comedy
Apple Employee: “Welcome to the Apple store. What can I do to help you today?” Me: “Just grabbing an adapter for a power cord.” AE: “Not a problem. I can get someone to help you. What’s your name? And do you have your iPhone on...
by Slade | Sep 18, 2017 | Comedy, Current Events, Travel
It’s funny. I had an entire thing written to launch this website, which, by the way, I should probably welcome you to. It was full of a bunch of notes about the last seventeen years of my life and how happy I am to be headed down this new road, or some such nonsense....
by Slade | Sep 9, 2017 | Comedy
I’d like to introduce you to my latest baby, which just happens to have been picked up by Amazon and Amazon Prime. Shot in Houston at Warehouse Live, and featuring a guest appearance by hip-hop legend, Scarface, it’s 98 minutes of comedy headlined by me....
by Slade | Sep 6, 2017 | Comedy
I was fortunate enough to be asked along on the tour that is the focus in I Am Battle Comic. I could never have imagined how cool the experience would actually be. I could fill your ears with my own opinions of the film, but here are some words from strangers...
