Enough shows to shake a stick at!

Photo by Shelly Williams

(Do not ask me what I was looking at with my left eye LOL!)

 

The January Show with Homegrown Comedy in Huntsville AL was great! It was a sold out show with around 350 people in the theater and everyone just slayed onstage, it was exciting to say the least.  My friends in Huntsville showed up in numbers as well, I had an article in the newspaper, which reran in the Mobile paper a few days later. Yeah I didn't know what to do with myself. Combine that with being interviewed on the street by fox news about my opinion on Alabama getting a lottery and I was just all over the place in January.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Back to lower Alabama and the Gulf Coast I was on a couple great shows at Comedy Whatever and Fancy Comedy. We always have fun!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coming up tonight 2-7-2014 I'll be guest hosting Friday Night Comedy in Pensacola FL. We're going to have a great time and then on Saturday 2-8-2014 I'll be opening up for Comedy Whatever as a Jew and a Black Guy returns to Mobile's Alchemy Tavern for what's always an awesome show!

 

 

 

Later this month February 16th through 19th I'll be taking a trip through the great state of Louisiana. I'll have more on that later, but I hope to stop through New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Hammond, then back to Baton Rouge. Stay tuned for more info on that itinerary. Until then here's more news on Pensacola Shows! I'll close out this month in Pensacola featuring for Top Notch Comedy at Hopjacks (which I attended the first show and it was packed! It's a really good spot for comedy and I can't wait to hit the mic) and I'll play the role of feature at Friday Night Comedy at the Big Easy when a Jew and a Black Guy headlines there. Of course there are many open mics that I plan to visit and have visited so far this year, now that's where you'll find me!

2014 happenings!

So far so good in 2014. The Huntsville show was awesome! I was on a Friday Night Comedy Show at the Big Easy, I have a show tonight for Comedy Whatever, and a Fancy Comedy show at the end of the month. 

Hey my klout score is up!!!

I'm on the Homegrown Comedy Show in Huntsville AL!



    Hey! I was interviewed by AL.com for an upcoming comedy show! This is awesome, humbling, exciting, and scary... This show is to be in Huntsville AL on 1/10/2014 so please share if you like and come out to support. Tell a few friends and family as well, everyone involved would appreciate it!

 

http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2014/01/alfred_ward_before_huntsville.html

 

 

From Alfred Ward... 2013 It's a Wrap! Here Comes 2014!!!

So 2013 is ending well,  I survived a pretty bad car accident after leaving a show a couple weeks ago with no injuries, but it really let me know that I do have to take better care of myself. Over working yourself with little sleep and poor nutrition isn't good for anyone. I can't believe that I'm in my 30's and I'm still trying to convince myself to follow my own advice, sheesh. Outside of that this month has been awesome! For most of the first half of the month I served as the AD/PA/Craft Services/Transportation/AC (Maybe) on a film production with Burning Mirror Films. Honestly I was in waaay over my head but I managed to get though it and not stress out a lot. I can't say that I learned a lot about shooting a film from the cinematographer's point of view, but I do have an appreciation for the planning phase and people/resource management needed to pull something like that off smoothly and I'll be even more ready for the next project.

In stand up all month has been solid. I got to share that stage with Alex Koll in a Fantastic show at Comedy Whatever at the Alchemy Tavern, a great guy and a great comedian. Honestly I'm still just glad to be part of shows, any show headliner or not, you can ask me for 5 minutes or 30 minutes, I don't mind. It's not that I don't think I'm any good, or that I don't care, I just can't believe it. It's all still unreal to me.

Oh yeah I have a show lined up in Huntsville Alabama on 1/10/2014, I lived in that city for over 11 years so it'll be fun to get back up there for a while. If I leave early enough maybe I'll get to stop by Birmingham or sneak away to Nashville as well for a night. That's all wishful thinking for right now, just stay tuned in case it happens and I'll announce it. Hopefully I'll get a couple mini tours together next year and get to hit up a few more stages, then things may become a bit more real to me, until then I'll see you at the open mics!

#GulfCoastComedy #MobileComedy #AlabamaComedy @AlfredWardjokes

 

Steven Street, Mike Honore, Alex Koll, Gov na, Chase Meyers, Me, William Masters (Incognito)

 

November to December in the Life of Ward

Whoa I just realized I hadn't blogged in quite a while. I had an awesome time on 11/16 and I have two more shows coming up for this year. Outside of that I've been hitting open mics like crazy. Don't get it twisted folks, I'm an open mic kinda guy. My next two shows are great lineups, I can't wait to share the stage this weekend with an awesome bunch and close out my year with a huge show on 12/14 and get ready for 2014... There maybe a surprise in December, I'll keep you posted!

 

 

 

October 2013 Baby! Headlining, TAG, Working with A Jew and a Black Guy twice!

 October has been fun so far, I opened for a Jew and a Black Guy down in Perdido Key FL, filled in at Comedy Whatever due to a cancellation, rocked the mic at TAG for the first time in months, ended up headlining about a week later in Orange Beach at Happy Harbor due to a tropical storm delay, and now this weekend I'm featuring on a show with A Jew and a Black Guy again LOL. However this time it's in Mobile AL at Comedy Whatever at the Alchemy Tavern. I wonder if I should dust off my material about needing a Jewish woman in my life. Preferably a Jewish MILF. Only time will tell.

Fun Night with Brent Condon, Alfred Ward, Mike Honore, Robert Rau, and Steven Street!

 

 

Comedy Whatever 10/5/2013 — with Colton DeMonte, Matt White, Steven Marcinowski, Louis Bishop, William Masters, Perry Strong, and Alfred Ward.

 

 

Onstage at TAG!

 

 



Blog post I wrote for the growing Gulf Coast Comedy Scene. Check it out!

WTH! They Wore what onstage? powerlez.com

http://www.powerlez.com/3/post/2013/10/wth-they-wore-what-onstage.html

I'm on four awesome up coming comedy shows!

I don't really know what to say besides I'm totally humbled. I have four shows lined up and here are the flyers for them. I'll announce them all again later, but for now WOW! Fun times ahead folks. Perdido Key FL 10/4 @ The Jellyfish Bar, 10/5 @ The Wharf in Gulf Shores AL, 10/16 @ Alchemy in Mobile, & 11/16 back @ Alchemy! Just Wow! I love you guys and gals! Now come on down for some awesome shows! Not to mention I still hit more open mics than I can count!

Featured Joke on Dumbfounderz Comedy Website!

In case you missed it " So one of my jokes was accepted to be featured on the dumbfounderz comedy website! Check it out!!! "

One of my jokes featured on the @dumbfounderz comedy website! Check out! "Speaking About Blacks" - Alfred Ward http://t.co/9R5AqHYuXy

— Comedian Alfred Ward (@IamAWard) August 4, 2013

DUMBFOUNDERZ COMEDY Featured Video

This is super cool!

One of my jokes featured on the @dumbfounderz comedy website! Check out! "Speaking About Blacks" - Alfred Ward http://t.co/9R5AqHYuXy
— Comedian Alfred Ward (@IamAWard) August 4, 2013

Comedy Whatever one year anniversary show!

WHOA! Stop the presses! Mobile AL today at Comedy Whatever at the Alchemy Tavern, William Masters hosts and I'm on the line up with Steven Street, Shelby Taylor, Kevin Saucier, Mac Harde, & Jake Head!

I haven't blogged in a while because I wasn't performing as much this summer but I expect more than ever coming up this fall!

July 13th 2013 Who's got the last Laff? in Pensacola was a lot of fun!

Of course we've still been getting stage time and working out new material at Monday Night Comedy at Bojangles!

On June 28th 2013 I had a blast featuring at The Blind Mule's Friday Night Comedy in the Attic hosted by Eric the Red...

When these niggas start booing, you start ducking... Performing for an "...

Guess who did Standup in New Orleans! The Howling Wolf Den @ Comedy Beast!

We came, we saw, we had a great time! So I rolled into New Orleans (Nawlins) with the infamous William Masters in tow not knowing what to expect and we just had a blast. I took a wrong turn and we did have a quick detour through the 9th Ward but I felt at home, no not really, but it wasn't so bad. In fact I was glad to get a point of reference so I could do my Prichard jokes. All over it was an awesome night. I recommend anyone who gets the opportunity to visit New Orleans to attend one of the shows, Andrew & Cyrus run a tight ship. 

Since I started doing standup my goal has been to become a consistently good comic on stage, none of that kill the stage or bomb out all or nothing crap. That's not saying I want to be average, I just want to be able to do great night in and night out with any crowd and not be pigeonholed. Shows like this are really helping me along the way. Since I've accepted the label of a comic I don't worry about being funny, I just have a good time. If you're having a good time the funnies will follow. 

I've kicked off a fundraising campaign on indiegogo.com for the summer to sell a few books and DVDs as well as test out the platform. I hope it goes well and I can tour eight to ten cities this fall. I can already but it'd be nice to have gas money. So with the fundraiser going for a couple months and me spending as much time as possible with my son for the summer I'm going to cut back on hitting five or so open mics or shows a week to one, so if you see me announce I'm on a line up please come. Hopefully I can use this extra time to work on some scripts or a new novel. Now it'd be cool to have a new novel ready for the winter... Enough about me, I'll be doing a full post about the fundraiser later... Time to go play with my kid, I feel like today may call for Space Pirates ARRRRRR!

The Alfred Ward is Past Due download and its 10% Less than the DVD!

I'm so FLLLLLLY! That's right! Alfred Ward is Past Due has gone digital and is available for download for 10% off the DVD's original price! Plus if you're willing to share your purchase on your favorite social network you get another discount! Check it out!

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Two Years Back Home, I Never Saw This Coming... But It's Been Good.

So it's been two years since returning to the Gulf Coast. First things first at least I can say that I no longer hate myself for it. In fact that's a quite recent development. I've had a lot of fun, met some really cool people, become a comic, performed spoken word, theater, and even film. Hell, I even complied another book and produced two DVD's. All in all I must say that I've been productive. Of course these things weren't new to me, I was already a prolific author and performer in Northern Alabama before arriving. During my brief stay in the Atlanta area I even managed to get a television appearance for spoken word and it's where I got my official start doing stand up. But this was different, Mobile Alabama is home (Prichard) and the place I had vowed never to live in again. So I guess it was an appropriate as place as any to hit the proverbial 'rock bottom'. All that I knew was that I wanted stage time and I got it. I just wanted to say thanks to my home town for being home and making me feel like me again!

I moved back here after it seemed as if I had failed at everything. A missive tornado outbreak triggered my need to move to find work, my marketing degree was damn near worthless, I couldn't hold a dead end job, couldn't get hired to another decent job, I had already abandoned entrepreneurship for corporate America and had been fired, I was going through a divorce, losing my family, and for the second time in less than a year, my home. My credit score had gone from 700 to the 400's, $200,000 in debt hung over my head, a trail of broken leases, and countless unpaid bills and final notices. I could barely look myself in the mirror and that was before garnishments were enacted which seize over 50% of my wages before I see a dime. Everytime I seemed to be doing a bit better there was yet another setback. But all things must come to an end and accordingly so did my foolishness.

You can't keep a good man down and I decided to embrace comedy and film. Entirely new avenues of expression for me, yes I had dabbled but no pursued them in depth. I struggled, I was booed, I begged, and ranted. They had little to nothing to do with my previous troubles, in fact they were the next steps in my long term goals as if I hadn't experiences any setbacks at all. With each minor victory I saw that I wasn't a failure and I emerged from the storms of my past. It started with a single laugh, to ONE youtube view, until now I expect to get invited to perform, to be able to sell a product I made, and to gain views for my efforts. Yes I still have my other problems but not one in my mind or spirit, I snapped out of my funk once I noticed just how ugly I had become to friends and family. No, I still don't like to let to many people get close because I know what it feels like to be used for your experience and resources and tossed aside, but I know that I don't have to be a jerk about it. Just being assertive about where you stand and what you expect in return helps that. Besides no one has to go out of their way to make people alienate them. Being successful is it's own reward and you can leave those stresses to those people who want to stay in hell. I know this isn't funny or poetic and that's fine with me. I'm also an essayist, novelist, playwright, and screen writer. So the next time you have an adult drink, lift up your glass, and toast to better days and know that you're toasting with me!

-Alfred Ward

P.S. I'd like it if you'd go buy my new DVD now...
(Excuse all the grammatical errors, I ain't fixing them.)

My new comedy DVD "Past Due" Get a copy today!

I finally settled on a name for the new DVD, Past Due. I originally planned for it to be a show this past March which was to be recorded and made into my first DVD with standup but that didn't happen. Luckily I had some buddies capture some footage of me at a recent show which was pretty good so this DVD was born. It features a new animated It's Life and That's Fred episode not released to the web as well as the stand up footage, which also has some clips of an additional two more shows. I've also included the full length Internet Dating documentary and a couple more short films for 60 minutes of laughs. That's thirty more than expected because I wasn't going to include the documentary, but it turned out okay. Okay I expect a little head scratching at some WTH moments, but you know that's my style. I'll be selling them for $10, yes only $10, but that's because I make them by hand otherwise it would be $50 and wrapped in 24k gold leaf. That's enough dreaming because there's none of that fancy bulk order stuff this time and of course the monies go towards paying bills, I have a family to feed, and need gas to go from show to show. 

A little preview:

That's Stupid, I Can Make Rap Music

Doing standup at Alchemy Tavern this weekend!!! 5/18/2013 Come check us out!

Hello friends! I've been working on a DVD like crazy so I slowed down the open mic torrent that I had going so well, but I'll be back! I came to the conclusion that I needed a new product to sale after only selling three books in three weeks. Hey enough of that, this weekend I'm on the bill at Alchemy Tavern in Mobile AL! It's always a lot of fun there comedy or not so I hope you guys can make it!

@comedy_whatever

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Monday's Open Mic at Bojangles!

What else can I say? I love to hang out and that's how the open mic at Bojangles is shaping up. We're on the cutting edge of funny, pushing the envelope, and taking comedy to where it's never been before. Okay we drink beer and play around on a microphone but it could be worse, we could be without a microphone. I came with some notes and a list but like so many of these types of nights I wound up just going on a venting rampage. It was great! This is comedy! I hope BFG recorded it... I'll have to ask...

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Mike, Eddie, BFG, Govna (The Host), Me

Here's a preview of some of the fun things I've been working on!

Stand up! Cartoons! Animation! Film! You know I get around so here's a quick lil preview of what I've been doing lately! ENJOY!!!