Have you heard the one about the AI comedian?

From American public media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Megan McCarty Carino. Ask an AI chatbot to write you a joke and the result may not always be funny enough to deliver on the

cutthroat stage of a comedy club but as the BBC's Megan Lauten reports some comics

are finding other ways to put the technology to use.

Thanks for coming to the show.

When Anessie Danielis sat down to write a show last year,

he'd heard artificial intelligence could speed up the process.

So the comedian and musician who's based in Toronto

asked Chachi P.T. to write it for him.

I'm very excited to do the show but honestly honestly, I didn't want to write it.

The results is what he's taking to fringe festivals around the world this summer, including Edinburgh and Toronto.

So I were playing around with it and trying to write some shows and the results they gave me were terribly hilarious and I was like maybe there's a show in this.

Despite some rubbish jokes he found the tool useful for brainstorming.

I gave it all of my songs and told it to make me a writing order and it told me where every

song should go and why and me and my director were like this makes sense.

Although Anesta used AI to write his script his show very much relies on his

delivery. Throughout the performance he switches from the keyboard to the guitar to perform songs

there's lots of interaction including a serenading of an audience member with personalized lyrics

written by Chatch EPT.

Oh Anthony, Anthony, keep your heart so true.

Friendship and kindness, we'll see you through.

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