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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."
Yes!! I don't even need to be funny to look like a jackass! Built-in laugh tracks? I guess it might be entertaining to play alone.
BTW, Karoke still draws a lot of drunk or soon to be at a local pub.
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Although this reminds of STTNG where Data tries to be a comedian.. it was ... different.
Joke-e-oke makes me a comedian like karaoke me a pop star. Suggesting that either of those statements are true can lead to some mind numbingly bad (but surprisingly confident) performances... especially when combined with alcohol.
"We live in a reality-television age where normal people see themselves as the star. Joke-e-oke shows that everyone can be a star,"
Sure, for 5 minutes. Then the reality of empty, meaningless lives hits the people when they remember they aren't famous or "stars". Aspire to be yourself, not a TV character. (see the related JE I wrote on March 15 linked in my sig)
Trolling is a art,
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
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!".
In Soviet Russia, Jesus asks: "What Would You Do?"
I thought that headline said 'Canadian'.
From the article:
he beta test version simply involved taping episodes of Comedy Central stand-up specials with the closed-captioning titles on. The sound would be turned down, the TV screen turned away from the audience and toward the Joke-e-oke participant, who would read the closed-captioned titles into a microphone.
So, just do that instead of wasteing your money on this stupid software. You are doing the same thing.
Joke-e-oke no more makes me a comedian, than having an MCSE will make me a system admin.
If you ever aspired to be the next Jerry Seinfeld instead of the next American Idol. That is not a sentence.
"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."
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I youve ever aspired to be either , then i can sugest a few other things you may enjoy *click click boom* seriously though
Its nice to see something to help people build the comedy stylings up
you could ask it if it runs linux and see if you get a laugh , or perhaps would a beowulf cluster of these substitute a studio audiance
*cough* well everyone says my jokes are laughable or was that me they were talking about
This could actualy be genuinly helpfull , if there is one thing i notice which is always a problem for aspiring acts on the comedy circut its timing and presentation.
This should really help those intrested work on the delivery of the lines if it functions as advertised. Then the only hurdal left is actual funny jokes and demenur oh and confidence
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The grammar in that summary is a Joke-e-oke.
this is exactly what i was thinking - are we that deprived of valid news that we're reduced to debating about the validity of a machine that is supposed to make you try to sound funny?
ridiculous
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Listen to the second segment from this This American Life show for a good illustration of what can go wrong.
Then the reality of empty, meaningless lives hits the people when they remember they aren't famous or "stars". Aspire to be yourself, not a TV character.
Well put. *goes off to RTFJE* Also well put.
The root cause of all this me-me-me silliness seems to be a blistering lack of self-confidence in the general populace, creating a need to conform. One might think that the extraordinary (and IMO ridiculous) efforts society puts into ensuring no one's widdle feewings are hurt might help people believe they are in fact worthwhile humans (however misguided that viewpoint might be in some cases). I guess we have inadvertently created a nation of shallow, vapid, me-mongers who need to be reassured every second that they really are unique and beautiful snowflakes. Oopsie.
My apologies - I must be wearing the cynical hat today...
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
Scare-e-oke is bad enough. Does the world really need another flavor of delusion? Standard karaoke makes me ill. I have to summon all my energy when in a karaoke bar/setting/whatever - usually against my will - to not shout out loud: "You suck! Shut the f*ck up!"
Now people who aren't funny will be just as annoying as those who can't sing. They all think they're great, though.
The more monotonous and boring the delivery is, the funnier the material seems.
Can anyone tell me how to set my sig on Slashdot?
I head a piece on NPR's (This American Life, I think), about karaoke bars who have comedy routines in addition to the regular songs. The comedy routines were never very popular, since 1) the materal was usually crapppy and 2) It's very difficult to read a joke for the first time without knowing the punchline and time it in such a way that is comes out funny... J
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.
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What's the point of using acronyms when you have to type out the whole phrase anyways?
an episode of MST3K where in one of the side-show scenes, Dr. Forsberg's assistant built a virtual comedian device. He did fairly well, while wearing Dr. Forsberg-like glasses and hair. That is, until Dr. Forsberg came back from vacation, and exacted his revenge by "Inserting a couple of drunken hecklers", and watched the man cry.
Damn, I need to get a life....
"No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing." -Emperor Claudius 10 BC - AD 54
Hopefully, with most karaoke type things, it will only take off in japan, so i won't know if they're joking, singing, ordering lunch or threatening to kill me, in anycase.
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Just because people are laughing at you, that doesn't make you a comedian.
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I just read slashdot posts modded +5, insightful for my daily laughs.
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Trolls lurk everywhere. Mod them down.
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...
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Considering the Japanese word "karaoke" means, literally "empty orchestra," it seems more fitting to call this thing something along the lines of "kara-jokey."
A built in laugh track is added, timed perfectly to accent punch lines.
So you need to follow the exact rythm of the original track in order to hit the 'laugh spots'? I can't imagine how bad it would be watching someone play 'catch up' to the video monitor if they fell behind. Comedy really should be all about finding a rythym that works in that instance, not following one that is predetermined. Timing is EVERYTHING in comedy.
Worst. Idea. Ever. If I ever see this live, I will be on the internet within minutes registering my disgust throughout the world.
Sweet informative mod.
I always wanted a "Joey from Full House Simulator", but this is about as close as im gonna get. Now if only I can find a "Mushy music to go with the moral lesson I just learned simulator", my life would be complete.
i saw this story and wondered if they would just have the big names or if they would have other smaller name hilarious comediaans there are guys out there that dont get much airtime that are hilarious jim norton, brian regan, rich vos, billy burr, pable fransisco, jim brueuer, paul mecurio, lewis black i could probably go on but my memory is shot
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getting a 1000 dollars a night does.
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Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.
It's really _THE_ reason to watch STTNG re-runs. I even remember one of his jokes from this episode: When I was a boy, I was so ugly that I had to hang a pork chop around my neck to get the dog to play with me.
should have been KARA-JOK-EY
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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?"
... I thought, "What the hell's so hard about becoming a Canadian?" And then I thought, "What the hell's so funny about making someone a Canadian?" And then I re-read the headline and my fun was over...
That is all.
Am I the only one that read it "Joke-e-oke makes you Canadian?"
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I could recite Denis Leary's No Cure For Cancer verbatim from beginning to end?
Disclaimer: That was nearly a decade ago, I may or may not have a life now
Isn't that the blue ape from Rouge Trader that makes tools for the imperium using it's many digited fingers?
in the episode where George stopped having sex and became really smart. He then decided to help Jerry with his assembly of one hour in front of the junior high. In the end George had sex and became dumb again so Jerry had to start it off and he goes
Jerry: Hey kids, what's the deal with homework. You're not working on your home!
Audience: boooooooooooouuuuu!
Sure, just use Text-2-Speech on Wiki After Dark
Way back in the day, there was an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 that had an invention similar to this. They called it "Virtual Comedy". This idea (even down to the hecklers) is right out of this episode of MST3K. Life imitating art (imitating life).
I fully support the realization of MST3K ideas into the real world. Now someone come up with talking robots out of spare parts and I'll be happy.
PS: As someone who has always wanted be a standup comedian, but never that good at writing my own material this is a really cool idea. If it means I can get up and receite my memorized George Carlin bits infront of a crowd, man. I have no problem being a cover artist.
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Desperate days demand dire deeds.
Now tell us the one that doesn't suck!
/Stewie
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Mr. Incredible: "You mean you killed off real comedians so that you could pretend to be one?"
Syndrome: "Oh, I'm real all right. Real enough to make you laugh! And I did it without your precious writers. Your oh-so-special timing. I'll give them jokes. I'll give them the most spectacular jokes the world has ever heard! And when I'm old and I've had my fun, I'll sell my inventions so that everyone can be funny. Everyone can be a comedian! And when everyone's a comedian... no one will be."
With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter. -- William Lloyd
Do people still know who he is?
I hope I'm funnier that that...
(... After reviewing previous postings...)
Well, er, apparently not...
IANAL, but I've seen actors play them on TV
Sure, bad joke-e-oke could be as bad as bad karioke.
But think about it, people can work on their delivery without having to worry about their material (at least for the time being).
I think what stops most people up is trying to do both at the same time.
At least, I know I suck at it.
(wait for laughter...)
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The laugh track. The USA's contribution to humor.
Yes, We of the world love to have marginally funny sitcoms stuffed down our throat. We've been loving it since "I Love Lucy". They are so funny! They must be, because the laugh track is there to tell us so!
Thank you USA for sharing comedy the gold! Gems like "Joey". You truly have made the world a better place!
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The routines available for play were collecting dust, with jokes so obsolete they were sometimes offensive. This segment is worth a listen just to hear the narrator crash and burn as he kills his routine.
Yeah, yeah, now I just realised two people (at least) already brought up TAL. Guess once a story's a couple hours old, it's been analysed to a pulp. :)
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It does Bill Hicks, and includes a cue when to swear at your audience, I'm not interested.
Oh god. I can't believe this guy is still around. I just recently saw a commercial with him in it. Supposedly he's making 2 movies in Hong Kong and will be returning to UC Berkeley next year.
HD Trailers
Apple to come out with the Joke-e-oke Shuffle.
Now that'd be funny...
GET FREE APPLE STUFF!
You are sure you did a google on that for yourself when you posted it?
...
,try to play Pink Floyd without it.
Or did you just read the headlines for the results and think well that is what I am talking about?
Or perhaps what the gp was talking about is a function present in most "vocal effects processors"
Now that is a device I do know and have used
And ELIZA makes me a psychiatric case...
Screw the FSM - Real geeks believe in the Invisible Pink Unicorn
Now all we need is an auto-timer to help talentless hacks with their comedic timing. You could even have different settings for it, like Gilbert Gottfried at one end and Stephen Wright at the other.
One of my favortite This American Life stories is Lost in Translation (5/30/2003, Episode 238), in which:
Act One. The Chasm Between Comedy and Music. Why is it that karaoke machines only have songs on them? If what they do is take a version of a public performance and allow the rest of us to give our own interpretations of the material, why aren't there other options, like the "you talkin to me?" scene from Taxi Driver, or Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. Jonathan Goldstein and producer Starlee Kine find out why, when they go to a karaoke club that has, along with all the songs, comedy routines for people to perform. (11 minutes)
It's freakin' brilliant, with Jonathan Goldstein innocently picking a routine from the early 90's which happened to contain jokes about the first Iraq war and how incompetent Iraq is. Unfortunaetly, this was delivered just after bodies started coming home during the current fiasco. Also, I think there's some joke about Mike Tyson, but, of course, that was a little touchy, too, having just gone through the rape proceedings.
Good stuff.
I have misplaced my pants.
Actually I was speaking of exactly the device that this post's gp mentioned... it's mostly standard rack equipment these days.
Ever see the simpsons where they make a boy band and he uses a box in the back to make them sound like people that know how to sing? That episode was not far removed from actuality.
I am disrespectful to dirt! Can you see that I am serious?!
Um, no ... used to play guitar and synth, had a bunch of pedals, etc., so I know that he wasn't talking about a stupid guitar tuner.
hmmM 8| You bastard! Now I want rocket powered boots! I feel a depression coming up.
Aw, c'mon!! It was a -joke-!!
...bah. Some moderators have no sense of humor.
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If this was a bunch of computer geeks reenacting various keynote speeches held by Steve Jobs, maybe dressed in a black turtleneck, I think you'd see this in a different light -- it's about having fun!