COMEDIAN. HYPNOTIST. PROFESSIONAL BAD INFLUENCE.
Colin Chapman is a comedian and hypnotist from Richmond, Virginia, and the creator of The Comedy Hypnosis is Amazing Show.
His show combines standup comedy, crowd work, and real hypnosis into something that doesn’t feel much like traditional stage hypnosis.
Because it isn’t.
There are no pocket watches. No magic tricks. No bullshit about mystical powers.
And nobody is getting dragged onstage to cluck like a chicken.
Colin starts with standup and crowd work, gets to know the room, then invites people who actually want to experience hypnosis onto the stage.
They get hypnotized.
Then shit gets weird.
Every audience is different. Every group of volunteers is different. Which means every show can go completely off the rails in a different direction.
That’s the point.
Colin got into hypnosis completely by accident in 2009.
What started as an underground hobby doing street hypnosis eventually became professional work in 2011.
But comedy was always the obsession.
So instead of building a hypnosis show and trying to make it funny, Colin went the other direction:
The result is a live show that mixes prepared standup, spontaneous crowd work, audience interaction, and the absolute wildcard of putting real hypnotized volunteers into the middle of it.
Think Kill Tony with Jedi mind tricks.
Most comedy shows have a performer and an audience.
This one has accomplices.
The people in the room help determine where the night goes. Crowd work can create something completely unexpected. A volunteer can accidentally hand Colin the funniest moment of the entire show.
Nothing is perfectly repeatable.
That’s what makes it fun.
Colin’s comedy is conversational, irreverent, unpredictable, and occasionally the kind of thing that makes somebody whisper:
“Holy shit. Did he really just say that?”
Yes.
He probably did.
Colin Chapman is a comedian.
He also knows how to hypnotize people.
At some point he realized combining those two things was significantly more entertaining than behaving responsibly.
And now there’s a show.