Stephen Ferris

I finally created a mailing list after doing stand-up comedy for 21 years. I should have done this a long time ago. I hear it’s a great way to help build a following. We’ll see!

I went down to the San Francisco Punch Line Sunday Showcase last night. As I stepped out the door of my house, I saw a snake! A little gopher snake about a foot long. There’s a new lady doing comedy named Noel, and she went with me. I got the snake into a container and […]

I dropped a guest set tonight on this show at this place called The Powerhouse in Folsom. Amber Whitford runs a fun show at a wild, wild place. When you go to a dive bar, you expect to see some people that look like they’ve hard, and probably done meth at least a 100 times. […]

Tonight I went to the open mic at The Comedy Spot again. I mostly got my ear talked off by Kelly Browne. There was like a thing going on with names. She kept making jokes about her real name not being Kelly. I asked her what it was, and she said it was Kelly, it […]

Mead Dave said I could do this Concord show, so I put it on the calendar. It was last night. I carpooled down with four other comedians. Buddy Rahming, Ed Mena, Jacqui Pirl, Joey C, and me. Jacqui drove us down there in her 5-speed VW Jetta. I sat in the middle in the back, […]

“There’s just something in the lawn. I don’t know if it’s the type of grass they used, or what.” This was my review of the venue that I performed at last night. It was in Tina’s backyard. She calls the show, The Dope Room. Who is Tina? She is a comedian here in the local […]

I went to The Comedy Spot again tonight for their Tuesday open mic. I got the same slot as last time: 22. So I went for a walk again. This time I called my friend Sheli and caught up with her for an hour or so while I walked. I didn’t see the Taco Tuesday […]

I went to The Comedy Spot tonight for their new Tuesday Open Mic. The first one was last week, but I forgot to go. This time I made it. I hung around and said hello to a few people and talked to some other old friends, like Robert Berry. He told me that he had […]

Tonight after work I bought some 1/2 galvanized pipe for a home project. I bought a 10 foot section, but had it cut to be one 9 foot section, and one 1 foot section. Well, actually what we did just to be sure was measure the size I needed by connecting a 5 foot section […]

Last night I went to On The Y, and I bombed. But it was okay. I met a cool lady who liked my set, and I wrote a joke about On The Y. In the joke I claim that The Beastie Boys played at On The Y in the ’80s, and one of them left […]