In 1996, Ferguson hosted the Nine Network's comedy game show "Don't Forget Your Toothbrush", and after the show's cancellation Nine kept him on to develop new television pilots. However, the network was not sure how best to use his talents, and Ferguson left to pursue other work. During this time, he wrote his first novel, "Left, Right and Centre: A Tale of Greed, Sex and Power", a political satire. His subsequent television credits have included "Unreal TV", "Big Brother", "Funky Squad" and "Shock Jock", a 2001 cable sitcom which he also wrote and produced. He has also built a strong career as a corporate event performer and was a sessional lecturer at RMIT University, where he taught narrative comedy for the Professional Screenwriting Advanced Diploma. In 2010, he released a guide to comedy writing, "The Cheeky Monkey: Writing Narrative Comedy". In 2010, Ferguson hosted and co-produced "WTF – With Tim Ferguson", a comedy chat show on community television station C31 Melbourne.