13 Facts About Albert Nerenberg

Albert Nerenberg was born on October 13,1962 and is a Canadian independent filmmaker, actor, journalist, hypnotist, and laughologist.

Albert Nerenberg's films include Stupidity, Escape to Canada, Let's All Hate Toronto, Laughology, Boredom and You Are What You Act.

Albert Nerenberg was a newspaper reporter with the Montreal Gazette and talk radio host at CKGM.

Albert Nerenberg was recognized by the Cinematheque Quebecoise as a film innovator for having had a role in some of the developments in contemporary filmmaking; including the hand-held revolution, the Truvie where fictional films are shot in real situations, and in creating the format of fictional movie trailers.

In 2001 Albert Nerenberg was the subject of a retrospective at the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal.

Albert Nerenberg moved to Toronto, "like many young Montreal anglo filmmakers before him," where he would eventually achieve even greater acclaim with higher-budget, more entertaining documentaries.

Albert Nerenberg's Escape to Canada examines the results of Canada's brief relaxation of its marijuana laws at the same time that same-sex marriage became legal, along with Canada's abstention from the US-led invasion of Iraq having made the country a perceived haven for progressive Americans.

Albert Nerenberg organized the first Montreal Laughing Championships after attending a UFC fight were two fighters unintentionally started laughing during a stare down.

Albert Nerenberg invented the Laughter Party, which creates the same atmosphere as a wild party, without the need of drugs and alcohol.

At IdeaCity in 2014, Albert Nerenberg made a controversial presentation suggesting that all drug and alcohol states can be replicated with hypnosis.

Albert Nerenberg launched a project called The Hypnotic Bar, a kind of temporary night club where people are hypnotized to be drunk while drinking only water.

Albert Nerenberg said he got the idea of the Hypnotic Bar after coming across a statistician stating that more people are currently dying of drug and alcohol overdoses than at any other time in human history.

Albert Nerenberg proposed that hypnotic chicken behaviour reveals a key aspect of human nature, that we believe our dreams.