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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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    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 dfn5 · · Score: 3, Funny
      A Borg, A Ferenghi, and a Romulan walk into a bar...

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    2. 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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  3. Dangerous headline.. by Propagandhi · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  4. Look, Ma, I'm fay-moose! by grub · · Score: 5, Insightful


    "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)

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  5. Joke-e-oke by Neil+Blender · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Where the joke's on you."

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. The Free version by DanThe1Man · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  11. 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.

  12. /Grammar Nazi by TheLetterPsy · · Score: 3, Funny

    The grammar in that summary is a Joke-e-oke.

  13. 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.

  14. Empty, meaningless, etc. by sczimme · · Score: 4, Insightful


    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...

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  15. I'd Choose Steven Wright by Phat_Tony · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The more monotonous and boring the delivery is, the funnier the material seems.

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  16. Re:Grammar Police by Feynman · · Score: 3, Funny
    That is not a sentence.

    Yes is.

  17. More than meets the eye by JojoLinkyBob · · Score: 3, Funny

    Buddy Hacket, to Johnny Carson: "Ask me what the secret to comedy is."
    Johnny Carson: "What's the..."
    Buddy Hacket (screams): "TIMING!!"

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  18. Soon to Come -- Choke-e-oke by Evil+W1zard · · Score: 3, Funny

    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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  19. SNL's one funny, classy moment in last ten years: by wsanders · · Score: 3, Funny

    First show after Sept 11th:

    Lorne Michaels to Rudy Giuliani: "So can we start being funny again?"

    Giuliani: "Why start now?"

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