October 2, 1996 Over The Edge sendin Aa

by Vince Yim

Disclaimer: This article
should have been run last
issue, but due to technical
difficulties, it has been run
late. Sorry for the dated
article. Paul Berard

Many people have a fixed
stereotypical concept of
hypnotism. Some will
picture the pocket watch
(“You are getting veeeery
sleeeeeepy...yes....very
sleeeeeepy....”), others will
picture mind control, and the
good old “Look eentoo my
eyes” kinda deal. However,
hypnotism is far from that as
people cannot be hypnotized
against their will. But that
doesn’t necessarily mean that
they won’t be doing stupid
things.

Enter Wayne Lee (“I
LOVE THAT GUY!”),
comedy hypnotist
extraordinary, who wreaked
havoc on the minds of those
in the Canfor Theater on

September 4th. I don’t know
if it’s me or not, but for some
reason he kinda sounds like
Alan Thicke. But anyhow
according to Wayne Lee,
people are unable to be
hypnotized unless they are
willing to be hypnotized, as
it is for the most part
relaxation therapy. For some
people (myself included), the
process just takes much
longer (as opposed to the 5
minutes Wayne Lee has to
work with on stage). As a
result, many people were
shuffled off of the stage

(myself included). But

perhaps that’s a good thing,

because the hypnotized:

volunteers who were on stage
(the REAL stars of the show)
had some _ hypnotic
suggestions to do some really
embarrassing things.

Taigi Maeda was one of the
first “victims”, who was first

made to believe that he

couldn’t remember his name

Wayne Lee... LOVE THAT GUY!

and was later hypnotically
suggested to believe that
Wayne Lee was Pamela Lee
Anderson, and that he was to
plant a big wet, kiss on his
cheek. “I don’t even like
Pamela Lee Anderson,”
Taigi Maeda commented
afterwards.

Chad Lamarche was
another unfortunate victim,
as he was made to be a sign
language and body language
interpreter for a sex therapist.
The hypnotized sex therapist
got him to act out such things
as masturbation, the best
sexual position, and the best
foreplay. He was looking for
someone to demonstrate
“best foreplay” on.
Unfortunately he was
looking straight at me.
Fortunately, the hypnotist
snapped him out of it. “It was
an out of mind experience,”
Lamarche later remarked
when asked to recollect.

“It’s like you’re fully

conscious, however you just
want to do it,” remarked
Craig Gebheardt. He was
hypnotized so that every time
he heard a certain song, he
was supposed to put his hand
in his pocket and do this
dance that made him look
like he was “choking his
chicken”. “It was okay,”
Craig continued, “Until he
got me doing that stupid
dance.”

Cherie Alexander
commented, “It was amazing
how he could get people ina
trance like that.” When asked
to recollect about the things
she was made to do (namely,
dancing around to the tune of
“Bad to the Bone”), she said,
“T don’t really regret doing
those things, but next time I
want to be a spectator.”

The biggest scare of the
night came from Joey
Dittrich, who was so deeply
hypnotized that even Wayne
Lee was unable to revive

him. “It wasn’t a bad
experience,” Dittrich latter
commented, “I never
witnessed hypnotism before,
so I thought it was kinda neat.
I knew I’d be taken care of,
like say if I were to fall down
or something.” Wayne Lee
said that people can become
“addicted” to the state of
hyper-relaxation. When
asked if that was what
happened, Dittrich answered,
“Probably.” But perhaps he
fared better than a lot of the
other volunteers.

The night of hypnotism
was fun for everybody, even
for the participants, save for
the crass comments many of

. them received afterwards,

such as “Hey, Craig, how’s
the chicken?” That and the
fact that all the volunteers
were supposed: to jump up
and say “I LOVE THAT
GUY!” every time they heard
the name “Wayne Lee”.

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