Comedy Show

I just got home from a comedy show. It was a show with the Rock and Roll Hypnotist Martin Walsh.

Oh. My. Gosh! It was so funny.

He asked for volunteers to come up on stage. He had eight chairs and once they were full, no one else could come up (although he did come out into the audience and "handled" a couple of people who were going under). If they didn't go under, he asked them to sit down. He wasn't rude about it, I think he just didn't want to waste the time if they weren't really under.

An old man (who, by the way, had an obvious erection when he got on stage, but that's another story) wasn't really going under so he was the first to go. I think he tried but he just couldn't relax enough.

Then there was "Jeremy". He had a shirt on that said "My name is Richard". So when he told his name, the hypnotist asked why his shirt said his name is something else and he said, "because I'm a dick." (He may have been under then because that was a true statement. *innocent look*) He was on stage the whole show but I don't think he was under. The ladies at my table (front and center, thank you very much) and I believed he was under at first but what started as believable was taken to an extreme...either he was a plant gone bad or he wasn't really ever under.

Next was Tommy. I didn't think he was ever under but my friends disagreed. He wasn't asked to do much but I just wasn't quite convinced.

Michelle was sitting next to Tommy. Sometimes she seemed under, sometimes not. That was the general opinion at the end of the night...that she came in and out of it.

There was another woman and a man who never went under but they "played" along for awhile and then left.

One woman was up there for a while and then asked to go sit down. I wasn't convinced she was ever under but my friend said she thought she was. She was saying that she was watching her and that it was like she came out of it and realized what she was doing and that she was actually crying. I missed that part.

And last but not least was a woman whose name escapes me at the moment but I'm pretty sure it starts with a "C". If she was a plant, she was damn good. She was so sweet too. She got asked to do a lot of things. I figure that could be because she was really under and it didn't hurt that she was cute and sweet.

Anyway, among the things they did, C (it's driving me nuts that I can't remember her name) was told that the number six was removed from her memory. It was like there had never been a number six. Whenever she would count she would skip six and go to the next logical number. Then he had her hold her hands in front of her and told her to count as he pointed to her fingers. The first time she counted right, he gave her the suggestion again and did it again. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. She had 11 fingers! She just stared at her hands like she was trying figure out how THAT had happened. So he counted them again. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. She couldn't understand...she kept looking at her fingers. So he had her put her hands together and had her count by two. 2, 4, 8, 10, 12 Now she had 12 fingers! He told her she could sit down and she returned to her seat (on stage, that is) still staring at her hands, trying to figure out how she came up with 11 and 12 fingers.

Then he gave the suggestion that a cell phone would ring (which one was played in the room - either that or I was under too...except I didn't get the second half of the suggestion). The women would be pissed off - and vocal. The men, on the other hand, wouldn't hear it. Michelle had a few comments but C (what was her name???) was funny. She thought it was a man on the front row and told him that was rude sir. Sir. I think that was one of the reasons she was so likeable. She was very sweet and polite. Even when she's given the suggestion that she will be very vocal, she's still polite.

Then it was suggested that their favorite celebrity was in the audience. "Dick" suggested Julia Roberts was in the audience (at this point it was becoming obvious he wasn't under). C got excited and saw her too...the lady in the black shirt. Martin (the hypnotist, in case you forgot) asked her about Julia and she was so excited - said she'd loved her in Step Mom. Then he asked if she wanted to hug her. C said yes and went into the audience and hugged this woman three or four times. (Fortunately "Julia" was a good sport, although she looks nothing like she does in the movies...she must have good make-up people. ;o) )

She played air guitar, saw an entire audience nude, realized SHE was nude on the stage, smelled a fart, then realized she was the one that farted, watched a porno movie, then realized someone she knew was in it, and then so was she. She saw flying objects, became emotional during a song (from sad, to laughing, to crying, to laughing hysterically), OH, and he suggested that when he said something, they would ask to get laid. She asked and he was giving out leis. Told them that when they tugged on them that it would give "pleasure". She pulled on it quite a bit.

Like I said, if she was a plant, she was damn good. I hate that her name has left me. I'm sure it will come back to me but it's driving me nuts now.

Anyway, the bad thing was, as we were leaving we passed her. Her friends and family were telling her all she had done on the stage and she was mortified. My friend had seen her in the ladies room and said she was crying because she was embarrassed. I feel bad for her in that respect but it really was a good show.

So, that was my evening. I had fun. :o)