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Joke-e-oke Makes You a Comedian

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the lets-talk-about-airline-food-for-a-moment dept.

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."

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  1. Humor by Number? by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Funny
    In the prison cafeteria, a new inmate's first lunch is interrupted by someone behind him shouting out, "431!" There's a chorus of laughter before another voice a way off shouts, "218" Again, much laughter. The new guy asks an old con sitting beside him what's with the numbers and laughter. The old guy replies, "Most of the guys have been in here so long that they know all the jokes by number. Go ahead, try one." The new guy says, "But I don't know what jokes go with what numbers!" The old con replies, "doesn't matter, just toss any number out." So the new guy shouts, "687!" Silence. The old guy says, "try a different one", so the new guy shouts "439!" Again, silence. The new guy shouts out a third number, "714!" Which is again met by silence. The old guy says, "eh, I guess some guys just can't tell a joke."

    BTW, Karoke still draws a lot of drunk or soon to be at a local pub.

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    A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
    1. Re:Humor by Number? by MPHellwig · · Score: 4, Funny

      "1014" a dead silence followed by a extraordinary huge laughter.
      "Heh, that my friend is a new one"

  2. You are kidding right? by 0xdeaddead · · Score: 4, Funny

    Although this reminds of STTNG where Data tries to be a comedian.. it was ... different.

    1. Re:You are kidding right? by theMerovingian · · Score: 5, Funny


      Two of them are talking about the amount of control they have over their wives, while the Ferenghi remains quiet. After a while one of the first two turns to the third and says, "Well, what about you, what sort of control do you have over your wife?"

      The Ferenghi says "I'll tell you. Just the other night my wife came to me on her hands and knees." The first two blokes were amazed. "What happened then?" they asked.

      "She said, 'GET OUT FROM UNDER THE BED AND FIGHT LIKE A MAN!'."

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      "If you think you have things under control, you're not going fast enough." --Mario Andretti
  3. Joke-e-oke by Neil+Blender · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Where the joke's on you."

  4. its all in the delivery by CmdrObvious · · Score: 5, Funny

    as any comedian will tell you, it is all in the delivery. the material is important, but delivery is MUCH more important...

    the automated heckling sounds fun, kinda like if every 20 posts on /., there was one that said "in soviet russia...." oh wait, nevermind.

  5. the good thing about joke-e-oke by new+death+barbie · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... is if you screw up, at least nobody laughs at you

    thank you, thank you, I'm here all week...

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    It's supposed to be completely automatic, but actually you have to press this button.

  6. WTF by Timesprout · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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    Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
    What truth?
    There is no dupe
  7. So... by omahajim · · Score: 5, Funny

    Joke-e-oke no more makes me a comedian, than having an MCSE will make me a system admin.