Chortle

Yeah, yeah.

You could add a seat map, but we do too many shows for any of that malarkey.

Sorry.

If we had a seat map, I'd go mad.

Because the problem is, I'm not romanticising the past here.

No.

Even just a few years ago, there were lots of shows on television, lots of comedy shows.

And now there really aren't that many.

Probably the biggest news story of the day is that AI comedians are stealing jokes wholesale from comedians.

This is a Chortle website.

You won't see it in the lamestream media.

And what's going on? What's that noise back there? Who is that coming in there? Who are you? No one can see you over there.

What a compliment.

Thanks to Steve Bennett from Chortle.

You saw great things for us.

Sorry we're now teaching music theory to incels.

And Paul did not want to carry on talking about it.

So I think there was, I found an article in Chortle saying that Paul Chalgery was in, he won the Cape Town Smirnoff International Comedy Festival award.

um but was only he he won that like critics choice award but only found out two weeks later when he was back in the uk and apparently nina was in south africa as well at the time uh it was ian stone nina conti and ian cognito were other people who were um on the set at the time so i imagine as being british comics at that point they would have spent a lot of time together in south africa and um obviously things happened

things

Then Julia Jasinas, she took to Instagram, uh, to show a similar side-by-side example of an AI account with 250,000 followers ripping off one of her jokes verbatim.

UK comedy news site Chortle found several other examples of stolen...

I haven't...

First of all, I have not thought about Chortle in so long.

[laughs] I haven't thought about Chortle in the longest amount of time that you cannot think about [laughs] something.

I clicked through on this, uh, on the link.

Jesus, the AI, these AI women, first of all, you know they're fake.

[laughs] And I was...

Yeah.

I even had a, a review from Chortle that was like, "She's too early." But the review was actually quite, looking back I was distraught by it, but then there wasn't stars at the time, thank God.

Oh, thank God.

'Cause I probably would've been, like, two stars or something.

Yeah, when I got my first Chortle there was no stars.

Yeah, thank God.

Oh.

To be hosted.

Do you work at Chortle? [laughs]

[laughs]

Fucking hell.

No, I wish I worked at Chortles.

[laughs]

I'd ch- I'd change my review score from this year.

... that read it though, aren't they?

It's like our Chortle.

Yeah.

No, wait, Chortle is our Chortle.

It's their Chortle.

Yeah.

I find it really funny when I meet comics that actually read Chortle.

Do you?

So well, what excuse did RTR, the Russian broadcaster, make for using clips from the movie rather than-

Well, this reminds me of Chortle, the, the local-

[laughs]

... you know, comedy site of the UK-

It's the Daily Mail.

But it's only because I was one of the first people to post, and they've just lifted it from the Chortle website and just quoted it.

But it makes it look...

I would like to assure everybody that I did not speak directly to the Daily Mail.

Yeah, or Chortle.

Or Chortle.

For that matter, no, not Chortle either.

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