A Complete and Modestly Funny System for Generating and Performing Japanese Stand-Up Comedy

We present a complete system that generates Japanese stand-up comedy. Different modules generating different types of jokes are tied together into a performance where all jokes are connected in some way to the other jokes. The script is converted to speech and two robots perform the comedy routine. Evaluations show that the performances are perceived as funny by many, almost half the evaluation scores for the total impression were 4 or 5 (top score).

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: COLING
• Authors: Jonas Sjöbergh, Kenji Araki
• Keywords: COLING 2008, Comedy Routine, Computational Linguistics, Japanese Stand-up Comedy, Jokes