Super High Me

Doug Benson saw Super Size Me and wrote a joke about how he was going to make a movie called Super High Me. He was going to smoke pot for 30 days and try to remember to film it. He told this joke at a club one night and a filmmaker came up to him and made the movie a reality.

Now this makes me think back to me saying that pot is the steroids of comedy. I thought this movie would show if it is true or not. Turns out it is true. Like really really true. Like super true plus some.

Okay lets forget about the fact that smoking pot, you know, got him a movie. The movie shows him pot free for 30 days then on pot from morning to night for 30 days. Let me point out that he lives in California where medical marijuana is legal and he has a prescription. He took a number of tests clean and high to see how pot changed the results. According to the movie, while pot hurt his math skills, he didn't do any physical harm to himself, did better on the S.A.T.s, increased his sperm count and gained psychic powers. (Really!)

I was shocked by the pro pot message of this movie but then again what the hell did I expect from the movie Super HIGH Me? In any case I want to talk about the comedy side of this. It is clear that pot is the best comedy short cut. During the sober time he writes the following joke: "Why isn't there a mildew remover called mildon't?" Did you laugh? No. Did you chuckle back it is a terrible joke? Maybe, and that is how he told it. He told it as, "look at this bad joke!"

Also during his high time we see his adventures in the world. Each of which became a joke in his act, and a good one at that. Previously as he was suffering sober, we saw him parasailing. He brings it up during his act and just says, "I don't know why I brought that up. I don't have a joke for that yet." The underlying message to me was, had he been high, he could have made a joke that, but he wasn't so he couldn't.

What really bugged me was watching this movie and seeing comic after comic say that they smoke. Sarah Silvierman takes a hit on camera. She then says, "I had a vaporizer (pot smoking device) but I left it at Adam Corola's house." So he does it. Brian (last name to hard to spell) from the Sarah Silverman program admitted it as did Arj Barker of Flight of the Concords fame. Whose Line is it Anyway's Greg Proops and Paul F. Thomkins heavily implied they did. Just hero of mine after hero of mine fell in line to inhale. The only ones that did not were Bob Odenkirk and Dana Gould. Bob said that smoking pot at his age was sad, but wishes he could smoke like 2 times a year. Dana Gould on the other hand has never drank or smoked in his life and I am a fan of his. I am guessing half the people who read this won't be sure who he is, but I am a fan. He is, however, on antidepressants so medication is part of his life.

So over all I will say that I don't want to smoke pot, but the "why the hell not" switch has been hit and I don't know how hard I would avoid the stuff. If it works it works. There is not comedy drug test so why not? The roids of comedy are out there. Everyone is really doing it. I could easily use the, I am just leveling the playing field defence. I just don't know how I feel about it.






Oh and for Christ's sake LEGALIZE IT! It would be so good for the economy.