Andy Huggins & Slade Ham

Andy Huggins:
Most of America knows 72-year old Andy Huggins from his standout appearance on America’s Got Talent in 2018. We all gasped a little when Howie Mandell recognized him from their days starting out together at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles. All of Houston comedy looked on as one of their own took center stage on one of the nation’s largest talent competitions.

Andy Huggins is a 45-year veteran of stand-up comedy. He was, along with Bill Hicks, Ron Shock and others, one of the original Texas Outlaw Comics, a group of Houston-based comedians who famously convened at Houston’s Comedy Workshop in the 1980s. Along with Huggins, the cadre included names like Ron Shock, Jimmy Pineapple, Sam Kinison and Bill Hicks. They set their own, individual legacies but as a group they helped put Houston on the comedy map.

Slade Ham:
Hailing from Houston and averaging more than 200 shows a year, SLADE HAM has performed in fifty-four countries on six different continents over the last twentyone years. Whether in Amsterdam, Toronto, or Texas, he cuts right to the heart of what makes the audience tick. He recorded a full-length album in a gap in the pandemic, debuting 90 minutes of material never-before-performed material at a sold-out Houston Improv. He’s an arm’s length away from the 1000th Whiskey brothers Podcast episode. His second
book comes out in 2022; his first, Until All the Dragons Are Dead, was a best-selling memoir about life on tour.
He took a Comedia Award at Just for Laughs in Montreal, wrote for The African Film Critics Awards, headlines The Whiskey Brothers Special on Amazon, and toed up across from Survivor’s Russell Hantz on A&E’s Flipped Off. His real passions lie on the road, however – traveling the world and collecting stories. Slade leads an average of three tours a year into the most remote sites the US military can muster. He’s been dropped off by Blackhawk helicopter to do spontaneous sets for soldiers in the Iraqi desert and the mountains of Afghanistan. He has free-climbed mountains and been swimming with sharks. He blew out his Achilles tendon dancing to Irish music. He’s wandered Australia’s outback, been lost in Cambodian
jungles, and hiked a good part of the Andes. He ran from the cops in the Philippines and was escorted through Cairo
in an armored convoy. He is anything but boring.