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Joke-e-oke Makes You a Comedian
Uber-Review writes "If you ever aspired to be the next Jerry Seinfeld instead of the next American Idol. Maybe the product featured by Wired is just right for you. Joke-e-oke, basically a karaoke with stand-up comedy material. Joke-e-oke is a laptop rigged to a video projector allows you to choose from a list of stand-up comedy icons to perform. A built in laugh track is added, timed perfectly to accent punch lines. Obstacles are programmed in so participants onstage get a taste of what real comedians go through by firing off heckle lines for the bar crowd to yell in unison at the Joke-e-oke participant."
BTW, Karoke still draws a lot of drunk or soon to be at a local pub.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Although this reminds of STTNG where Data tries to be a comedian.. it was ... different.
We aren't allowed to use scripted teleprompters in my line of work... so I secretly arranged to have an earpiece and a wireless audio receiver hidden in my jacket.
I sure fooled everyone in the audience... heehee!
~GWB
"If you think you have things under control, you're not going fast enough." --Mario Andretti
"Where the joke's on you."
as any comedian will tell you, it is all in the delivery. the material is important, but delivery is MUCH more important...
/., there was one that said "in soviet russia...." oh wait, nevermind.
the automated heckling sounds fun, kinda like if every 20 posts on
... is if you screw up, at least nobody laughs at you
thank you, thank you, I'm here all week...
It's supposed to be completely automatic, but actually you have to press this button.
Great so now entertainment consists of a 'performer' being told what to say by a machine and that same machine telling the audience how to respond.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
Joke-e-oke no more makes me a comedian, than having an MCSE will make me a system admin.
The grammar in that summary is a Joke-e-oke.
Yes is.
Buddy Hacket, to Johnny Carson: "Ask me what the secret to comedy is."
Johnny Carson: "What's the..."
Buddy Hacket (screams): "TIMING!!"
-jc
Who will be the first to write a regexp magic script to scrape all of the +5 funny comments on slashdot and feed them into this program.
It'll go over big at your next D&D gathering. But everyone would have already read/heard the jokes.
WTPOUAWYHTTOTWPA
What's the point of using acronyms when you have to type out the whole phrase anyways?
The performer takes the stage, closed captioned program in sight and begins:
SO I WEBT DOWN TO THE BAR AND I SAW M_____________Y F RIEND GEORGE. I SAID TO HIM JOE ORANGE WHAT ARE Y@U
and the rest was unintelligible amid the hail of rotten fruit.
Am I the only one who heard Roxette to sing "I'm gonna get blitzed for some sex"?
"So the parrot says to the barkeep a fatal exception 0E has occurred..."
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Where you can re-enact scenes from a list of famous movie and real life stranglers. A built in choke/gurgle track is added, timed perfectly to accent your strangling experience...
News Reporters Make Tasty Polar Bear Treats!
Considering the Japanese word "karaoke" means, literally "empty orchestra," it seems more fitting to call this thing something along the lines of "kara-jokey."
You, sir have obviously never had to do any business in Asia.
Karaoke and the ability to hold down your drinks can be all the difference between getting a contract and going home with nothing. Believe me, we all aren't up there to be TV stars... Sometimes we don't even know we are there...
should have been KARA-JOK-EY
Don't Tread on Me
First show after Sept 11th:
Lorne Michaels to Rudy Giuliani: "So can we start being funny again?"
Giuliani: "Why start now?"
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"
Sure, just use Text-2-Speech on Wiki After Dark
...you sure it wasn't Ashlee simpson?