{"id":1606,"date":"2021-10-07T21:47:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T21:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leafly.com\/wp-home\/?p=180573"},"modified":"2021-10-07T21:47:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T21:47:13","slug":"add-this-legendary-cannabis-comedy-festival-to-your-bucket-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=1606","title":{"rendered":"Add this legendary cannabis comedy festival to your bucket list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <title>Add this legendary cannabis comedy festival to your bucket list &#8211; Leafly<\/title>     <!-- This is Index Exchange, a script\/\/3rd-party integration that interjects GAM. It needs to be 'ahead' of GTM in the DOM, which comes from Cephalopod. GTM loads GAM. 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Because the 1<a href=\"https:\/\/www.savagehenrycomedy.com\/comedy-festival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">0th Annual Savage Henry Comedy Festival<\/a> returns October 7-9, with 10 venues hosting over 100 comedians in and around the town of Eureka, CA. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-text-align-left\">\n<p>A comedy festival in the middle of Northern California\u2019s harvest season gives everyone a chance to relax, inhale, and laugh. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And if you\u2019re not in Humboldt County, but are within driving distance of Northern California and looking to make an all-time bucket list weedy road trip, then what are you waiting for? What destination could be more worthy than a freewheeling comedy festival, held in the epicenter of American cannabis culture, right at the beginning of harvest season?<\/p>\n<p>You can make a whole adventure out of it by following Leafly\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafly.com\/news\/lifestyle\/cannabis-travel-guide-to-humboldt-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cannabis travel guide<\/a> to find the real Humboldt. Be sure to also check out our guide to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">trimming weed<\/a> before departure, in case someone offers you a gig. Just keep off, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafly.com\/news\/industry\/theres-a-lot-more-to-humboldt-county-than-murder-mountain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>sigh<\/em><\/a>, Murder Mountain.<\/p>\n<p>And make sure to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafly.com\/news\/strains-products\/how-to-buy-authentic-humboldt-cannabis-right-now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">buy local<\/a> when you\u2019re buying weed.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-homegrown-weed-and-hospitality\">Homegrown weed and hospitality<\/h2>\n<p>So who\u2019s gonna be there?<\/p>\n<p>The lineup for this year\u2019s festival consists predominantly of seasoned road comics who love getting high enough to come play a small club that\u2019s five hours from San Francisco and ten hours from Portland. Plus a homegrown community of local comedians who go out of their way to keep Humboldt weird while making sure every joke slinger who makes the trek gets treated to some of the killer weed and kind hospitality that\u2019s made the county famous.<\/p>\n<p>Headliners at this year\u2019s fest include Sam Tallent (author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samtallent.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Running the Light<\/em><\/a>), Valerie Tosi (Conan), Dave Waite (Jimmy Fallon), Tess Barker (\u201cBilly on the Street\u201d), Nicholas Rutherford (<em>Rick and Morty<\/em>), and Robert Jenkins (\u201cLaughs\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>The entertainment on offer ventures beyond stand-up, with everything from improv battles to comedic games based on making up songs or projecting someone\u2019s old vacation slides.<\/p>\n<p>As the nights wear on and the edibles kick in, the line between performer and audience can actually get pretty foggy\u2014but don\u2019t you dare heckle.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img width=\"400\" height=\"504\" alt class=\"wp-image-181161 has-ll lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/add-this-legendary-cannabis-comedy-festival-to-your-bucket-list-1.jpg,compress&amp;w=550 550w, https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/add-this-legendary-cannabis-comedy-festival-to-your-bucket-list-1.jpg,compress&amp;w=740 740w, https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/add-this-legendary-cannabis-comedy-festival-to-your-bucket-list-1.jpg,compress&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/add-this-legendary-cannabis-comedy-festival-to-your-bucket-list-1.jpg,compress&amp;w=1480 1480w\"><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"h-who-is-savage-henry\">Who is Savage Henry?<\/h2>\n<p>The name Savage Henry comes from an obscure line in Hunter S. Thompson\u2019s <em>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, <\/em>referring to a possibly made-up heroin dealer the novel\u2019s erstwhile heroes facetiously say they\u2019re on their way to murder:<\/p>\n<p><em>My attorney hunched around to face the hitchhiker. \u201cThe truth is,\u201d he said, \u201cWe\u2019re going to Vegas to croak a scag baron named Savage Henry. I\u2019ve known him for years, but he ripped us off\u2014and you know what that means, right?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 2010, when Chris Durant lost his job as a Humboldt County crime reporter, he lifted the name for a humor magazine he and his wife Monica started up on their kitchen table. For ten years and more than 100 monthly issues, they and their co-conspirators got <em>hella<\/em> laughs by lampooning Humboldt\u2019s outlaw weed culture, particularly the heady local blend of hippie idealism and backwoods weed-fever paranoia that makes it such a wild and wonderful place.<\/p>\n<p>To wit, the free magazine publishes an annual Harvest Issue every autumn, featuring a pull-out Trim Scene Motivational Poster. One previous example: <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img width=\"1024\" height=\"708\" alt class=\"wp-image-181150 has-ll lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/add-this-legendary-cannabis-comedy-festival-to-your-bucket-list-2.jpg,compress&amp;w=550 550w, https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/add-this-legendary-cannabis-comedy-festival-to-your-bucket-list-2.jpg,compress&amp;w=740 740w, https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/add-this-legendary-cannabis-comedy-festival-to-your-bucket-list-2.jpg,compress&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/add-this-legendary-cannabis-comedy-festival-to-your-bucket-list-2.jpg,compress&amp;w=1480 1480w\"><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"h-standup-comedy-meets-onsite-consumption\">Standup comedy meets onsite consumption<\/h2>\n<p>The magazine recently shut down after struggling to remain solvent during the pandemic, but the Savage Henry Comedy Club in Eureka has managed to stay open, and will be hosting the festival\u2019s biggest shows in person this year\u2014with all state and local COVID precautions in place.<\/p>\n<p>For the small dedicated crew who\u2019ve struggled to keep the comedy club up and running for the past two years, the fest offers a chance to bring together their homegrown fans along with a community of comics from all over the country who see the club as a second home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year\u2019s festival is extra special after 2020 put the comedy club on the shelf for months and months,\u201d says Chris Durant. \u201cIt will be the first&nbsp;time I see a lot of these comics in about two years, since the 2019 Festival. We were able to squeeze a festival out last October but most of it was on Zoom and that\u2019s like when you\u2019re used to smoking&nbsp;Humboldt\u2019s finest and then you have to switch to Mugwart\u2014it\u2019s going through&nbsp;the motions but the fun stuff isn\u2019t there. And doing this for a decade is a huge milestone. We\u2019ve blossomed into a festival that comics use as a credit and comedy fans build vacations around it.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" alt=\"exterior-shot-of-savage-henry-comedy-club\" class=\"wp-image-181162 has-ll lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/add-this-legendary-cannabis-comedy-festival-to-your-bucket-list-3.jpg,compress&amp;w=550 550w, https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/add-this-legendary-cannabis-comedy-festival-to-your-bucket-list-3.jpg,compress&amp;w=740 740w, https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/add-this-legendary-cannabis-comedy-festival-to-your-bucket-list-3.jpg,compress&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/add-this-legendary-cannabis-comedy-festival-to-your-bucket-list-3.jpg,compress&amp;w=1480 1480w\"><figcaption>The pandemic forced the magazine to shut down, but Savage Henry\u2019s Comedy Club, in Eureka, CA, has survived. (David Bienenstock photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"h-of-course-it-s-420-friendly\">Of course it\u2019s 420-friendly<\/h2>\n<p>And to make things even weedier: Additional shows will take place at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.papaandbarkleysocial.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Papa &amp; Barkley Social Dispensary<\/a>, which features an on-site dispensary, tasting room, day spa, and restaurant. So yes, you can smoke weed while you take in an outdoor show.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, an informal poll of comedians at a previous fest found that drunk audiences laugh louder and more easily, but stoned ones are far more perceptive, not to mention much easier and more fun to deal with. So if you\u2019ve ever felt turned off by the sometimes loutish vibe at a comedy club, you should definitely try it on weed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-xxl wp-block-leafly-blocks-leafly-related-articles\">\n<p><h2>Related articles<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"author-box\" class=\"p-lg my-xxl bg-white rounded border border-light-grey elevation-low\">\n<div class=\"mb-lg\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/add-this-legendary-cannabis-comedy-festival-to-your-bucket-list.jpg\" alt=\"David Bienenstock's Bio Image\" class=\"lazyload inline-block mr-md rounded-full border border-light-grey\"> <\/p>\n<p>David Bienenstock<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"text-sm\">Veteran cannabis journalist David Bienenstock is the author of &#8220;How to Smoke Pot (Properly): A Highbrow Guide to Getting High&#8221; (2016 &#8211; Penguin\/Random House), and the co-host and co-creator of the podcast &#8220;Great Moments in Weed History with Abdullah and Bean.&#8221; Follow him on Twitter @pot_handbook.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"text-sm font-bold underline text-green\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leafly.com\/news\/author\/david-bienenstock\">View David Bienenstock&#8217;s articles<\/a> <\/div>\n<div class=\"leafly-sailthru-signup p-lg my-xl bg-white rounded elevation-low border border-light-grey\">\n<p class=\"text-xs pt-lg\">By submitting this form, you will be subscribed to news and promotional emails from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafly.com\">Leafly<\/a> and you agree to Leafly&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafly.com\/company\/tos\">Terms of Service<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafly.com\/company\/privacy-policy\">Privacy Policy<\/a>. 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