Paul Bettany is a talking bong in the first trailer for Funny Or Die's High Science
Obviously, High Science is slated to premiere on HBO Max and Discovery+ on 4/20
An all-important national holiday arrives each year on April 20th, and it’s not National Pineapple Upside Down Cake Day. Luckily, Funny Or Die has something extra-special and extra-informative planned: a new HBO Max series where a talking bong voiced by Paul Bettany walks intrepid stoners Matt Klinman and Zack Poitras through the weirdest and most wonderful this world has to offer. Welcome to High Science.
In each episode of the series—which Klinman and Poitras also created—the duo “smoke on” a new topic, leading them to realizations that often seem too specific and strange to be true. The Ancient Egyptians invented toothpaste. Sharks are older than trees. Trees eat salmon. The facts that Bettany’s “Dr. Oh” introduces consistently blow Klinman and Poitras’ minds, more often than not, warranting a lengthy, fried “wooooahhhh.” Where do scientific discoveries end and high thoughts begin? Or were the two never all that different in the first place?