Hello. I’m
Slade Ham
Hailing from Houston, Slade Ham has performed in 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
Walk With Me
I talk a lot about comfort zones and getting out of them, but I realize that I don’t often expound on my own adventures outside the wire. By the time you read this I should be well on my way to being comfortable again, but as I type it, I’m in a hotel in Ft. Lauderdale and I’m anything but. I fly to the Bahamas in the morning to join a Carnival cruise for the first time. I’ve always eschewed cruise ships, mostly for the PTSD it shakes loose from a million years ago. I’ve taken exactly one...
Some Travel Advice
I get asked for travel advice all the time. It's fine of course, it's what I do, and I love to talk about it and share my lessons learned. I was recently asked for advice by someone who was considering solo traveling as a female. I don’t have a lot of female-specific advice, but here’s a nugget or two that applies to all of us. Take a picture of where you are staying. Write down the address. Make sure you can pronounce the name. Then, go get lost. All the best places are down little side...
Object in the Rearview Mirror
Objects in the rearview mirror may appear closer than they are. I feel like the warning works better this way. I cannot speak for every other profession, but in my realm, the one unavoidable tool of the trade is a notebook. I’ve been filling them up with stories, fiction and non, since I was a junior in high school. I’ve captured almost everything, and over decades my process has improved. Why bring this up? Because those notebooks hold the truth, or at least the biased accounts of an...
Hunting Season
I’m inviting you to go on a pheasant hunting experience, one to purge an invasive species from your world. Our minds, for all of their wondrous intricacies, are really just electrical computers running if/then statements. Social comparison is how we navigate the world. It’s hardwired into our mental laptops. We use it all the time to navigate the chaos. If you can only own one gun as a hunter, I’d suggest you get a 12-gauge shotgun. When you are out duck hunting, you need a shotgun...
The Right Expression
I follow a lot of comic book artists on Instagram. As a doodler with a childhood full of superheroes, I sketch them all the time. It’s a wonderful distraction before shows, and if you look around the back of the club on any night I’m performing, you can probably find one. But these guys are pros. If you look at one of my drawings, I’m happy if you can identify the character. With the people I follow, you can tell the difference between perplexed and confused in the character’s expression,...
