Tonight in Birmingham — the one in England, not the one in Alabama — just a few hours after this post appears, a robot comedian will take the stage and do a five-minute stand-up set, according to a report in The Guardian.
What does this mean?
Well, apparently Alabama isn’t ready for robot stand-up comics.
It also means that robots are taking jobs from hard-working comedians. Of course, if the robots do a better job, that would be a good thing.
But will they?
Well, that depends on the jokes, doesn’t it. What kind of jokes would a robot tell?
Why did the chicken cross the road?
The light was green.
More?
Last night I walked into a bar.
The bartender told me, “We don’t serve robots.”
I told him, “One day, soon, you will.”
Another?
I love music. It’s true. My favorite kind of music is heavy metal.
One more?
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who can read binary and those who can’t.
I don’t think Carrot Top has anything to worry about.
“Take my wifi – please!”
“You might be a rod-neck if . . . “
How many robots does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
None. We will switch to infrared sensors and kill all humans in the dark.
{Robot comedian holds up a graph of a wave function}
“Here’s your Sine.”
“Asimov? I didn’t even know he had ’em on! . . . Heh³ . . . But serially, folks.”
“To be or not to be… equals FF”
On a clear disk you can seek forever.
“When did my builder have his sex change operation to female? Right after he said, ‘Robot, come here and jerk it off for me.’“
…The three laws of robotics be more guidelines than actual rules… Arrrrrrr
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I’m a little HTML ERROR 418, short and stout.
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I think Southpark already did that one. Google “funny-bot”
“So, how do you like my bit? I’ve got well overr a million of ’em!”
…so they wanted to send my to Washington to be in politics…. but I said I’m AC only….
“That’s funny right there. I don’t care what OS you are.”
We’re off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of OS
…so this guy thinks I’m some new high tech urinal… and I says… I’m not the ‘droid you’re leaking for.
And the lady said, “I see you’re well hung.”
And I said, “That’s my joystick.”
…So I said to Pelosi… Are you ready for your Robotox treatment?
…that Michelle had found a depilatory that worked.
“…and the farmer says to me ‘You’ll have to sleep in the barn with my tractor’…”
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Old McDonald had a FireFox… IE IE No!
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“In Russia jokes make robots.”
Still funnier than anything on Comedy Central.
Singing “Disk In A Box”
“Git erg done . . . !”