Stand Up Comedy... On Acid!

VICE correspondant Joshua Haddow attempts stand-up comedy for the first time... on acid.

We also went to the Westminster Dog Show on Acid. Check it out here: http://bit.ly/Westminster-Acid

Watch "Underground LSD Palace" here: http://bit.ly/Underground-LSD-Palace

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One week before my birthday this year, I was talking to someone at work about the time I took a shit ton of mushrooms in Amsterdam during New Year's and had a life-changing experience that has since made me a better person and far more focused in life. No less than 24 hours later, I was in a cab en route to perform stand up comedy with a head full of acid and a stomach full of puppies shitting themselves in horror.

I wasn't coerced, talked into, or persuaded to do something as nerve-racking as telling jokes to a room of strangers—paying customers, no less—for the first time ever while simultaneously tripping on powerful psychedelic drugs. I didn't really think through how terrible it could go at the time. I was stupid, not brave. I took out most of my anger on Jamie Lee Curtis Taete, about whom I remember saying things like "you're such a twat" and "I fucking hate you, prick."

It would be great if I could say that doing stand-up on acid was profound and moving. But I would be lying. I just thought it would be funny. Maybe it was. But it's also a dumb, fucking terrifying thing to do. So, please do enjoy this video, but please don't ever try anything like this yourself. It nearly cost me my sanity.

- Joshua Haddow

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[stp52x]

Yeah this was really terrible. You guys should have just given the guy like 30 hits of acid and locked him in a dark room with a microphone.

Or better yet, some DMT.

[UFOwnz]

Your point is? Acid and lsd are the same thing....

[RickyRivs]

i would've died if i was that guy haha

[Bob Marley]

Lmao farmer

[Vorox144]

i just dont understand how its possible to trip this hard of 1 hit

[DovahkiinTES]

would have been way better if the audience was drugged not the comic

[HeavyTrippin]

1 hit? acid is weak these days.... you need at least 4.

[ihavenoname000000]

I smoke pot.. lol. I took LSD three Times. It didnt fuck my life up. Actually it helped turn my life around. I made the decision to quit smoking cigarettes and chewing tobacco and drinking all the time. Do some research or hey give it a try. Don't condemn LSD just because you've heard stories about it being bad. Figure it out for yourself.

[Jake Kuhl]

dude, all ur gonna do is fuck ur life up dumbass... if u have to do drug just go smoke a j or somthing

[Cameron Van Zile]

Lmfao @ 4:58 "so, so intense right now....he's dead"

[ConallxD]

sounds like your acid was pretty shit