Marc Savard Comedy Hypnosis Show Returns to The Strip
Our all-time favorite comedy-hypnosis show is back after years of badgering its star, Marc Savard.
While Savard’s show isn’t at a casino (they don’t really do mid-tier shows anymore), it’s worth seeking out because Savard takes this tried-and-true art form to new heights. Sometimes literally. We’ll get into it in a minute, because it always has to be about us.
Savard’s show closed when everything did, during the pandemic. He, too, was a victim of the mask and distancing mandates now proven to have been, in epidemiology jargon, idiotic. Don’t get us started. He’s back at the Nathan Burton Theater, which is apparently still a thing!
The Nathan Burton Theater shares space with the FlyOver Las Vegas thrill attraction on Las Vegas Blvd. You can’t miss it, mostly because there’s a big-ass Coke bottle right next to it at the Showcase Mall, as well as the M&M’s World store not too far from MGM Grand.
Savard has apparently opted to do a family-friendly version of his show. The best parts of its previous iteration were not that, all due respect.
There’s sort of a pecking order of talent and quality when it comes to comedy-hypnosis.
Marc Savard and Anthony Cools were tops in that regard back in the day. Cools used plants, Savard doesn’t.
The only other Las Vegas show featuring comedy-hypnosis is “Hypnosis Unleashed” with Kevin Lepine at Four Queens.
At one time, comedy-hypnotists were more common than pickle tub drummers on Fremont Street.
Now, not so much.
Anyway, back to us.
So, when we worked at Fremont Street Experience, we did their digital marketing, including for the SlotZilla zipline.
To effectively market something, you sort of have to do it. (Looking at you, casino marketers who don’t gamble. Please fire yourselves immediately.)
We successfully avoided riding SlotZilla for several years. We have a heights thing.
Then we were approached by a TV production company to take part in a show about non-traditional healing methods. They wanted us to get hypnotized to see if it would help with our fear of heights. We don’t really think of it as “fear.” It’s more of a “significant concern about falling to our death.”
Anyway, they recruited none other than Marc Savard to work with us and come to find out he’s a skilled clinical hypnotherapist. The stage kind of hypnotism is sort of a subcategory of the hypnotism profession.
Clinical hypnotherapists complete hundreds of hours of certified training, study psychology, trauma, memory and ethics, and often work alongside doctors and therapists. Stage hypnotists have extensive training in making people dry hump chairs and selling merch.
Anyway, Savard helped us unearth some serious trauma and we jumped on SlotZilla like it was a walk in the park.
We are hoping Savard will help with our fear of walking in parks at some point.
The TV series never aired, thankfully. We ugly cried and nobody wants to see that.
Savard’s stage show involves zero ugly crying. It’s very funny and it’s sort of a throwback to when comedy-hypnosis was right up there with magic shows and lounge acts as the bedrock of Las Vegas entertainment.
The volunteers are different for each performance, so no two shows are the same.
We are pleased our non-stop begging has resulted in Marc Savard reviving his show.
The schedule is a smidge erratic, with December dates including Dec. 6, 10, 22, 25, 27 and 29, 2025. A schedule that’s all over the place is guaranteed to help with the success of any show, we said sarcastically.
Shows happen at 6:00 p.m. Find out more at his official Web site. Tickets range from $27 to $57. For the top price, you get to sit on a VIP couch. We are not making this up. Still, a great value and we haven’t even seen the newest version of the show yet.
There are a lot of reasons old-school shows have faded away in Las Vegas. And by “a lot of reasons,” of course, we mean “money.”
Casinos don’t really host or market shows anymore, they’re “four walls.” That means the show pays rent and the cost of marketing the show are on the production.
The Sphere and sportsball and headliner residencies have upstaged comedy-hypnosis and similar shows in Vegas, so it’s gratifying to see Marc Savard making another go of it.
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