Eric Andre says he smoked toad venom and 'had Thanksgiving dinner with God'

Eric Andre says he smoked toad venom and 'had Thanksgiving dinner with God'
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Eric Andre is leaping at the chance to share his ribbiting drug experience.

The comedian revealed that he smoked toad venom on a recent trip to Mexico and got so high that he "had Thanksgiving dinner with God."

"There's a toad that lives in the Sonoran desert that hibernates for nine months out of the year in mud, and then it comes out of the mud like Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now and it eats rats and it f---s hot other toads," Andre explained to Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday's episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live. "It's a big, giant toad, but if you smoke the venom off of its legs, you get high out of your mind."

Spoiler alert: Andre did, in fact, get incredibly high. "I sailed into the anus of the Milky Way galaxy, spun around Saturn's rings, and had Thanksgiving dinner with God. It was unbelievable."

The Prank Panel star explained that the toad's venom is a "DMT derivative," which is "a strong hallucinogenic" that has become popular in recent years. "You release it in your brain when you die, and when you're born it's incredible," he said. "It's kind of ayahuasca but on acid. If ayahuasca did acid, it'd be toad venom."

Andre added that the drug's effects are "miles above" those of ayahuasca and that it is consumed differently. "You smoke it in, like, a little crack pipe," he said. "You scrape it off the legs of the toad and you smoke it in a crack pipe and you go right into Neptune."

Eric André attends the premiere of Illumination's "Sing 2" on December 12, 2021 in Los Angeles, California.
Eric André attends the premiere of Illumination's "Sing 2" on December 12, 2021 in Los Angeles, California.

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Thankfully, Andre had an advisor who provided the equipment and the wisdom for his interstellar journey. "The shaman, he looked like a skinny Guillermo del Toro, and he had all these cool Tibetan singing bowls, and he had a great crack pipe, so I used his crack pipe," he said. "I highly recommend it."

Andre also opened up about smoking the venom while visiting Steve-O's Wild Ride podcast over the summer. "It only lasts like 10 minutes… it's like a factory reset," he said. "Your entire brain is just like total darkness, just emotion. You feel like you're having 10,000 orgasms in the center of the universe. You're in a different dimension. You no longer exist."

He had another experience shortly after the death of his father. "I was talking directly to my dad," he said. "Tremendous emotional catharsis, bawling, crying, worming around on the ground… It felt like emotionally ejaculating. It felt like this great purge of all this tension and buildup and stress of watching my dad deteriorate into death, and it really, really, really was a cathartic and therapeutic experience."

Watch Andre recall his toad venom trip — and getting tased by Johnny Knoxville — in the clip above.

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