If you're the one signing off on the entertainment, you shouldn't have to guess. Here's the whole night, from doors to standing ovation, with nothing mysterious about the mystery.
The show starts weeks before show night. You get a short questionnaire about your crowd, your venue, and your no-go topics, and I build the set list around your exact room: the references, the music, the volume of the comedy. Schools get a show that's clean top to bottom. By the time I load in, 90 minutes before doors, the night is already shaped.
I don't start with hypnosis. I start with comedy, a little mind reading, and a plain-English explanation of what hypnosis is and what it isn't. No swinging watches, no mind control: it's focus, imagination, and permission. When the room understands that, volunteers come up relaxed instead of nervous.
Volunteers only, always. I invite 15 to 30 people who want to be part of it. Nobody gets pulled out of a seat, nobody gets tricked onto the stage, and I say all of this out loud, deliberately, so the whole room hears the rules. The audience sends up its heroes. I just hand them the spotlight.
This is the part people lean forward for. A few minutes of guided focus and the volunteers settle into that heavy, comfortable state you see in the photo: heads down, shoulders loose. It looks like sleep. It's closer to the moment right before sleep, when your imagination says yes first and asks questions later.
Hypnosis isn't one-size-fits-all, and I don't pretend otherwise. Volunteers who aren't feeling it head back to their seats quietly, no spotlight, no embarrassment. The show runs on the ones who are all the way in, and that's exactly why what happens next looks impossible.
Sixty to seventy-five minutes of your people becoming the funniest people in the room. Every bit is built for your crowd, and the comedy always lands on the situation, never on a person. The volunteers aren't the punchline. They're the stars, and their friends will be quoting them at next year's event.
Every suggestion is removed before anyone leaves the stage. Volunteers walk off clear-headed and feeling great, usually to the loudest applause of the night, and then spend the rest of it answering the only question that matters: what did it feel like? I stick around until the last one is answered.
Still have a specific worry? It's probably in the FAQ, or bring it to a 15-minute call and ask me directly.
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