Give Them a Grad Night They’ll Never Forget

Grad Night & Post Prom Comedy Hypnosis Shows

Graduation happens once. Give your students an experience they’ll be laughing about long after the caps and gowns have been put away.

In Dr. Dave Hill’s Comedy Hypnosis Show, the students don’t simply watch the entertainment. They become the stars of it. Volunteers from the graduating class become part of a fast-paced, music-filled comedy experience created right in front of their classmates. Every show is different because every group of students is different.

Their Classmates Become the Stars

Dave creates the situations, guides the show, reads the students and controls the pacing—but he doesn’t need to stand in the center of every moment. When a volunteer creates a hilarious moment, the audience gets to watch their friend. The applause belongs to the student.

That is what makes the show such a memorable shared experience. The graduating class isn’t watching strangers perform. They’re watching their own classmates become the entertainment.

Hilarious Without Humiliation

A Grad Night or Post Prom should be remembered for the right reasons. Dave doesn’t believe a volunteer needs to be humiliated to make an audience laugh. The comedy comes from imagination, spontaneity and wonderfully ridiculous situations—not cheap laughs at a student’s expense.

The students should leave the stage feeling like stars—not targets.

Entertainment Students Actually Want to Watch

Grad Night and Post Prom entertainment has a special challenge: students have plenty of other things competing for their attention. Dave understands that. In some years he has performed approximately 40 to 50 High School Grad Night and Post Prom shows, in addition to decades of performances at colleges, casinos, fairs, festivals, corporate events and major attractions.

A successful student show has to move. Music matters. Pacing matters. The volunteers matter. And the entertainer needs enough experience to recognize when something spontaneous is funnier than whatever was originally planned.

Safe, Appropriate and Professionally Presented

The students want a hilarious show. The adults responsible for the event need something else as well: confidence in the entertainer they’ve hired.

Dave’s Comedy Hypnosis Show is designed to provide maximum fun while maintaining a safe environment for volunteers and the audience. The comedy doesn’t depend on offensive material or embarrassing students. Decades of live-performance experience—including extensive work with high-school audiences—help Dave adapt the show to the group in front of him.

Every Graduating Class Is Different

Dave doesn’t treat volunteers as interchangeable pieces in a scripted show. One group may give him something completely different from another. A volunteer may react unexpectedly. A spontaneous moment may become the funniest part of the evening. After more than 16,000 live performances, experience gives Dave more ways to respond in the moment.

One Chance to Get Grad Night Right

There is no second opening night for this graduating class. This is their celebration. The venue may be unusual. The schedule may change. Sound and staging may present challenges. Dave’s job is to arrive prepared, work with the people producing the event and give the students the show they came to see.

Whether someone is sitting in the front row or the worst seat in the room, Dave believes the same thing: they came to be entertained, and they deserve a great show.

What Happens During the Show?

Students volunteer to participate. Dave guides them into hypnosis and then takes them—and their classmates watching from the audience—through a fast-moving series of hilarious imaginary adventures. Music helps drive the action, the volunteers’ personalities make every performance unique, and Dave remains in control while allowing the students themselves to command the audience’s attention.

Decades of Experience. One Graduating Class at a Time.

Dr. Dave Hill has performed more than 16,000 live shows during a career spanning nearly four decades, including performances at casinos, colleges, high schools, corporate events, fairs, festivals and California’s Great America. Television audiences have also seen Dave demonstrate hypnosis on MythBusters.

Those credentials demonstrate experience. But the reason to hire Dave for your Grad Night or Post Prom is simpler: your students deserve a great show. When Dave walks onto the stage, that is the audience that matters.

A Finale That Fits the Moment

Graduation is the end of one chapter and the beginning of another. Friends may scatter. College, careers, military service, relationships, successes and setbacks are all still ahead.

Dave ends the show by turning the volunteers into the rock group Journey, with one volunteer becoming the lead singer.

The song carries a message every graduate can take with them:

Don’t Stop Believin’.

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