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Humour appreciation.

Splitz

Splitz

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We've all sat there, giggling like infants at apparently nothing, when we're tripping. But how do psychedelics affect your appreciation of things that are meant to be funny?

If I ever smoke cannabis these days I don't really find it enhances my appreciation of humour in the way it once did. The only drugs that do nowadays are psychedelics. I want to know what everyone thinks. I'd especially like to know what comedies people enjoy if they happen to feel like watching telly when they're fucked.
 
Yeah the weird thing is that I remember ending up laughing at the most simple and pure jokes, from another perspective those are really unexpected moments to be laughing at... like: surely there were better jokes than that? It's similar to appreciation of intricate patterns. If they are pre-chewed, like an artist's complex psychedelic images I can find them tacky or at least boring while tripping. While diamonds in the rough are the best thing because they still leave something to the imagination! So I guess you also need some kidding around space IMO. Expectations can limit freedom of thinking and I tend to feel let down when I expect something and the expectation comes true. The best things in trips are to me usually the ones that catch me off guard.

I am not saying this from experience but "Arrested Development" should be very humorous while tripping exactly because it is so weird and in it's own way clever and sophisticated.

Then other than that cosmic jokes are awesome to me, and absurdism is as well... but I feel like that whether I'm tripping or not.
 
"Arrested Development" is a good one, as is "Curb Your Enthusiasm". For that matter, good "Seinfeld" can be wonderful.

"It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" can get a little too intense, as they usually end up getting hurt or imprisoned for their antics, instead of actually learning a lesson.


But like Solipsis said, there is NO SUBSTITUTE for a sudden, unexpected bit of wordplay or misunderstanding between a group of high or tripping people to create an explosion of mirth.

Example: Just last week we were sitting in the living room of a college stoner house, all relaxing in sofas and taking in bong rips. One guy ("Ben") heads to the kitchen to grab a sandwich he had stuck in the fridge. On his way there, he is complimented on his ridiculous pink boxers (hey, I'm not going to tell a guy what to wear in his own home). As he is reaching into the fridge, he accidentally knocks something off the shelf and onto the floor. Half of our smoking circle witnessed the blunder, and we cried out "oh no!" as we saw the mess splatter on the floor. One person who didn't see what happened, asked us if our disappointment was because Ben had bent over. It was a most excellent burn, and we all laughed a good long while about it. Poor Ben not only received the brunt of the joke, but also had to clean up the spilled mess before finally enjoying his sandwich.

Of course, dissecting a joke so it can be transmitted across textual lines kind of kills the moment. But there was another time when a group of us were hotboxing a friend's car, the music was turned up loud enough that conversation was difficult between the front and rear seats. One of us was talking about how "I can't understand why people would ever want to be hurtful", and the girl next to him asked, "did you just say Urkel?" to which the next person agreed "yeah, i think we need an airhole right about now" because there was not enough oxygen remaining inside the cabin to sustain a lighter flame!
 
Of course, dissecting a joke so it can be transmitted across textual lines kind of kills the moment. But there was another time when a group of us were hotboxing a friend's car, the music was turned up loud enough that conversation was difficult between the front and rear seats. One of us was talking about how "I can't understand why people would ever want to be hurtful", and the girl next to him asked, "did you just say Urkel?" to which the next person agreed "yeah, i think we need an airhole right about now" because there was not enough oxygen remaining inside the cabin to sustain a lighter flame!
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I find that with psychedelics my humor is very simple, almost childish but i wouldn't say that. It's the connections i find amusing. Where as pot it's finding humor in things that aren't always there, more in my head thinking makes things funny. Psychedelics also make me laugh at things in my head but its a clearer more natural pure laughter. Like people watching comedy, natural human error sorta thing would be more psychedelics (fun without them too).
 
Psychedelics definitely make me laugh at all kinds of things, or even nothing at all. Especially when I'm alone, I end up going into bouts of laughter, sounding like a crazy person. But even weed still makes me all giggly. My friends and I love to just throw words and phrases around when we're fucked up, corrupting them or trying to say tongue-twisters. It evolves and gets funnier and funnier.
 
lol I (attempted) to watch an epidsode of arrested developement at the peak of my most intense 4-aco-dmt trip. Everything was morphing and all the character's voices were different, like all the female characters sounded like men. And it seemed to last like 2 hours, because everything was in slow motion. I think I was too high to get the humor, I remember laughing but not at anything in particular.
 
When I am on psychs I think about the connections in the world and as Terence Mckenna put it it's like you discover 4 simultaneous puns in objects, words, etc. IMO I'm just hearing, looking, feeling something in many different ways at the same time which gives different aspects and perspectives to the laughing material making me giggle uncontrollably (almost crazy like). I also find that cannabis doesn't make me laugh more like it used to, but I think this is due to the fact it's not as psychedelic of a high as it used to be when I first started (don't get as high with that sweet cartoon vision haha) and the fact that when I'm high now I tend to analyze things incredibly/space out which takes away from the humor and the moment.
 
Sometimes I write sketches and things for fun. We used to film them when we were younger. I wonder what effect psychedelics would have on the creative process of comedy?
 
^ That's a good question. Give your favorite stand-up comic / comedy sketch group a few hits of acid, and see what they come up with. ;)
 
^ I bet George Carlin wrote much of his best stuff while tripping, or at least high.
Appreciating his stand-up while on psychedelics is something I have not yet tried. But I would be willing!

( I have watched Family Guy while so stoned that I was essentially tripping. I laughed my ass off, but I normally do when I watch FG, so hard to judge how much the drugs helped.)
 
Family Guy seasons 1 and 2 are almost completely pure genious. In fact, I remember we watched season 2 on one of my first mushroom trips, and it was the most hilarious (and deeply soul-moving, interestingly enough) material i'd ever seen.

New family guy is pure shit.


As far as stand-up goes, I think it's best enjoyed while drunk and stoned. Too much connotation and association goes on whilst tripping. But there are comics with really good material ABOUT tripping--- i think everyone on this website must see Bill Hicks at least once, not to mention Mitch Hedberg.
 
Marijuana has a *profound* effect on my humor appreciation. I consider myself to have a somewhat stunted sense of humor when I'm sober, but when I'm high, not only do things become WAY funnier, but I'm actually able to comprehend humor on a deeper level. Jokes will manifest themselves on multiple dimensions that I never would have seen without marijuana. So naturally this makes both intentional and unintentional humor cosmically hilariously awesome.
 
Haha, I found American Dad hilarious when tripping. I love Family Guy too, but I've seen them so many times... it's dulled them for me.

Still hoping to get some LSD soon so I'll try and think of funny ideas and see how that goes, I'll post some. I have a few sketch ideas that are slightly Python-esque. Feel free to write material, everybody. I'm genuinely intrigued as to wether the creativeness that comes from psychedelics can translate into comedy.
 
awkwardness causes lots of humor for me while tripping, but also in general.
i love fear and loathing though, so eating 8 hits and going out to dinner then starbucks with the gf and her friend is an excellent example of a good night for me.
funny thing about that too, i was behaving normally, when we were in the thai restaurant waiting to eat, i let out a random giggle.
they both looked at me, juan asked what was wrong with me, and kristie said "he's high"
my rebuttal was a typical am not!, being on probation i wasnt allowed to get stoned, but inside my head i was thinking "if only you knew!!!!"
i had indulged the day before too, so i wasnt on another planet completely, but still out there.
i thought it was a hilarious situation, still do to this day, i find it amusing to go out in public zonked, and just going about my day as usual.
being john malcovich was ridiculous while tripping btw
 
LSD always stood out for me in it's ability to generate an intelligent appreciation of humor, it was always the subtle characteristics of people especially when engaged with one-another that had me in hysterics.. it was like watching an sitcom yet the actors were never aware of what they were doing, much less the punchlines.

It wasn't so much anything specific but the scenario that encapsulated it all.. somehow behind all the complexities, the simplicity of existence expressed itself in its own unique way in the form of something as trivial as one persons reaction to another. :)
 
Its seems to be very interesting. But I found there some contradiction. But first I'll
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During a 4-HO-MET trip i realised what a pathetic lonely loser i am for finding solace and connection in drugs instead of other people.

Then i had a good and healing belly laugh because of that realisation, and moved on.
 
Laughter is the best medicine... perhaps not necessarily in a physical sense, but psychologically.

I think if I found a drug that iduces crazy (but genuine) laughter without any other effects, It'd probably become my favourite.

I'm now going slightly off topic in my own thread, but one of my best friends is living proof of the power of laughter, to me. For the years we were friends, we'd laugh hysterically at things. Our sense of humour was exactly the same, we'd bounce off each other and I would not laugh harder at anything else other than him. Then we fell out... we didn't speak for two years. Eventually I realised I just didn't laugh at anything with nearly as much enthusiasm. The colour seemed to be gone from the world and I was miserable. Anyway one day we started talking again, and I realised what I was missing. I'm so grateful to have that laughter back.

I think what I'm trying to say is this: never forget the importance of laughter! This is, to be honest, one of the main reasons I love psychedelics. For me the laughter is an extremely important part of the tripping experience.
 
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