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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. Hacking the Joke-e-oke by red_dragon · · Score: 3, Informative

    You know the machine has been tampered with when the poor sod on the stage whips out 31 different versions of "Why did the chicken cross the road?" and the laugh track has been replaced with Nelson Muntz's "Ha ha!".

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  2. It's been done by Jeremy+Erwin · · Score: 3, Informative

    Listen to the second segment from this This American Life show for a good illustration of what can go wrong.

  3. Re:Humor by Number? by ackthpt · · Score: 2, Informative
    And old joke (but not as old as the numbered joke one.)

    It was based upon Abbott and Costello's 'Who's on First' sketch and is a bit past it's prime, with Hu Jintao being leader of pretty much everything in PR of China, now.

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