Tony Lee Visits Humber College
Anyone walking by Caps on Wednesday afternoon probably wondered why there were three guys getting it on with their chairs.
It was just a small part of Tony Lee’s hypnotist performance for a large crowd that gathered to watch the 20-year veteran of hypnotism do his thing.
Lee called upon a group of willing volunteers to get up on stage and attempt to be hypnotized, and those who did spent the next hour doing his every command, from simulating lewd sexual acts to taking a trip back in time and pretending to be elementary school students – but all in good fun.
“What I do is something that makes people laugh,” Lee said. “The cool thing about it is that it doesn’t matter what sexual preference, age or nationality you are, so long as you’re having fun together. It’s great and we get a chance to see that happen.”
The crowd seemed to agree, as they cheered on Lee while he made his way around Caps, handing out shots of tequila to students.
The charismatic Lee performs an average of 200-300 shows a year, with approximately 160 of those taking place in colleges and universities around Canada and the United Kingdom. Even though he’s performed at Humber roughly twice a year over the past decade, he still leaves students like Electrical Apprentice student Evan Brazel, wanting more.
“This is my second time watching,” Brazel said. “I’m not a student here next semester, but I’ll come back to watch him.”
First-year Electromechanical Engineering Technology student Joe Rawlings has seen other hypnotists before, but it’s Lee’s humour that keeps him entertained.
“I liked how he had a lot of jokes to go with it, instead of it being a straight hypnotist kind of thing,” Rawlings said. “I’ve been to two hypnotists before, but I think this was a lot better. With the age group, it’s easier for a lot of the humour.”
There are some fellow hypnotists out there who disapprove of Lee’s raunchy brand of hypnotism, but Lee believes that as long as he continues to have fun with it and doesn’t hurt anybody or isn’t destructive, then it’s all good for a laugh.
PUBLISHED IN HUMBER ET CETERA 09.2205
