Oct 26, 2026 · 53 min · 12 segments
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Johnny BeehnerHostHave you seen this thing going around? It's an AI company offering to help comics punch up their jokes.
And it's basically like they're getting an unsolicited email from an app that's like, hey, we're not here to write your jokes.
And so you tell us your funny story and then we'll lay out the beats and do, do all that.
And I have this flash of like, you know, obviously you know me, I'm like, I hate it all.
But my first, if I'm being a hundred percent honest, my first reaction was like, why didn't they email me because i saw so many comedians post it i like
yeah and this this guy sam do you know sam miller i'm trying to look it up because then i can tell you exactly what it's is
no he's Sam Miller he's from Olympia Washington but he's done really well and he travels all around you know but he he was basically sent him like a threatening email going I hope you fail at this and I hope my goal is to find out any comic who uses this and expose you know it was pretty dramatic but let me see if I can find it anyway just just wild but you know like for all the comics who post like this is so bad there's gonna be a fair amount who do it you know and i just wonder what it'll sound like when everybody's using ai to like punch up their jokes it's gonna be so tempting it'll
just sound like a new comic that doesn't know their voice it'll be like oh here by definition this is a punchline you know
Have you seen this thing going around? It's an AI company offering to help comics punch up their jokes.
And it's basically like they're getting an unsolicited email from an app that's like, hey, we're not here to write your jokes.
And so you tell us your funny story and then we'll lay out the beats and do, do all that.
And I have this flash of like, you know, obviously you know me, I'm like, I hate it all.
But my first, if I'm being a hundred percent honest, my first reaction was like, why didn't they email me because i saw so many comedians post it i like
yeah and this this guy sam do you know sam miller i'm trying to look it up because then i can tell you exactly what it's is
no he's Sam Miller he's from Olympia Washington but he's done really well and he travels all around you know but he he was basically sent him like a threatening email going I hope you fail at this and I hope my goal is to find out any comic who uses this and expose you know it was pretty dramatic but let me see if I can find it anyway just just wild but you know like for all the comics who post like this is so bad there's gonna be a fair amount who do it you know and i just wonder what it'll sound like when everybody's using ai to like punch up their jokes it's gonna be so tempting it'll
just sound like a new comic that doesn't know their voice it'll be like oh here by definition this is a punchline you know
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