Comedians Create AI-Generated George Carlin Stand-Up Special

Washed-up Mad TV alum Will Sasso, irrelevant podcaster Chad Kultgen, and an AI program named “Dudesy” have created an AI-generated George Carlin stand-up comedy special.

According to Variety, Dudesy is “a comedy AI that hosts a podcast and YouTube show” alongside the two aforementioned grifters.

The special sees the legendary stand-up comedian, who has now been dead for 16 years after dying of heart failure back in 2008, discuss topics such as “mass shootings, the American class system, streaming services, social media, and AI itself.”

We won’t be posting the video here to not give it any further traction, but we will provide some examples of the “jokes” in the special.

“If you’re tired of seeing Jeff Bezos fly to space in his cock rocket, stop using Amazon for a month. Company goes under, Bezos goes away,” the program says.

“There’s one line of work that is most threatened by AI — one job that is most likely to be completely erased because of artificial intelligence: stand-up comedy. I know what all the stand-up comics across the globe are saying right now: ‘I’m an artist and my art form is too creative, too nuanced, too subtle to be replicated by a machine. No computer program can tell a fart joke as good as me.’”

At the start of the special, “Dudesy” explains what the special is and likens it to something that a “human impressionist” would do.

“I just want to let you know very clearly that what you’re about to hear is not George Carlin. It’s my impersonation of George Carlin that I developed in the exact same way a human impressionist would. I listened to all of George Carlin’s material and did my best to imitate his voice, cadence and attitude as well as the subject matter I think would have interested him today. So think of it like Andy Kaufman impersonating Elvis or like Will Ferrell impersonating George W. Bush,” the video begins.

In a statement posted to Twitter, Carlin’s daughter Kelly ripped the project and instead promoted his 14 specials that you can find “anywhere.”

“My dad spent a lifetime perfecting his craft from his very human life, brain and imagination. No machine will ever replace his genius. These AI generated products are clever attempts at trying to recreate a mind that will never exist again,” Carlin’s daughter tweeted.

“Let’s let the artist’s work speak for itself. Humans are so afraid of the void that we can’t let what has fallen into it stay there. Here’s an idea, how about we give some actual living human comedians a listen to? But if you want to listen to the genuine George Carlin, he has 14 specials that you can find anywhere.”

Carlin is widely regarded as one of the greatest stand-up comedians of all time and has remained extremely relevant after his passing due to his political and societal prescience, with many of the topics he discussed being just as if not more relevant today.

Six of Carlin’s HBO Specials — You Are All Diseased, Jammin’ in New York, It’s Bad for Ya, Again!, Carlin at Carnegie, and George Carlin at USC — are currently streaming on MAX.