The Dose: A Psychedelic Comedy Experience
Vanguard
January 11, 2025
Remember the halcyon days of A.I.?
When we laughed at how badly it rendered human hands? When it gave us the boomer phenomenon of “Shrimp Jesus” and the Willy Wonka Glasgow Experience, the latter being an event executed so off from its marketing that the cops were called in? Before Silicon Valley bought our 47th president and promised a techno-feudal hellscape, the scariest thing about A.I. was a character called The Unknown that it invented for that Wonka experience ... and he was still pretty funny.
Well, those days are gone. Skynet is at our doorstep, and escapism and comedy are the most immediate fixes for existential dread. The Dose, a traveling “fully immersive psychedelic [comedy] experience,” promises such a trip into a different kind of “unknown.” The Dose is advertised as “a mind-bending journey of experimentation, laughter, and healing,” facilitating “the perfect set and setting for both the comedians and the audience to find the funny within their expanding minds.”