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The Jokes AI Won’t Tell | Jena Friedman | TED

Could a robot ever be funny? In a sharp standup act, comedian Jena Friedman lambasts the mad dash to develop AI and offers a surprising take on why it will never replace comedians. (Contains mature content.) (Recorded at TED2025 on April 10, 2025) Join us in person at a TED conference: Become a TED Member…

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Could a robot ever be funny? In a sharp standup act, comedian Jena Friedman lambasts the mad dash to develop AI and offers a surprising take on why it will never replace comedians. (Contains mature content.) (Recorded at TED2025 on April 10, 2025)

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  1. @Charandakeomanyny

    August 3, 2025 at 11:04 am

    Thank you for your engaging and quality videos. Your ideas bring joy to your viewers.⛏🍿😨

    • @spartan117ak

      August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

      AI came to show support to an AI PR piece, cute

  2. @NanaMama-b8r4p

    August 3, 2025 at 11:06 am

    Thailand fighting to Cambodia first 😢

  3. @AndogaSpock

    August 3, 2025 at 11:07 am

    GEN AI: Unlocking the talent of the talentless!

  4. @JosephSilv4

    August 3, 2025 at 11:09 am

    Weedeater.

  5. @WDSimp

    August 3, 2025 at 11:16 am

    Have you ever gotten a little ways into an abortion joke and then decided not to keep going with it?

  6. @maevekennedy3909

    August 3, 2025 at 11:17 am

    Could robots “talk” to each other 😮

    • @SummerSausage

      August 3, 2025 at 12:08 pm

      no

    • @CcCc-cs5uj

      August 3, 2025 at 1:49 pm

      Yes. Check out AI Generated vehicles. One hits a bump in the road and communicates to the next car coming down the road so that car goes around the bump

  7. @robertperez9300

    August 3, 2025 at 11:21 am

    Look what happened to Funnybot

    • @Grorl

      August 3, 2025 at 12:47 pm

      Awkward!!!!

  8. @ExistentialWolf

    August 3, 2025 at 11:23 am

    the world trade center was finished in ’87 where computers replaced stock brokers and obtusely caused the stock market crash … this ended investment in tv and only left investment in film (which ended after 911) – skateboarding came out of the crash in ’87 😀

    • @ExistentialWolf

      August 3, 2025 at 12:09 pm

      mostly the slopes…

  9. @sodazman

    August 3, 2025 at 11:32 am

    AI will definitely take over, that wasn’t funny at all.

  10. @jakewolf079

    August 3, 2025 at 11:42 am

    Obviously never watched Neuro-sama

  11. @mikesherwood22

    August 3, 2025 at 11:46 am

    Not informational or funny

  12. @dr.prof.robtopnotch

    August 3, 2025 at 11:59 am

    Thanks that was💯🫡✌🏾☝🏾❤️. I hope people start to understand more.

  13. @Untouchedflower

    August 3, 2025 at 12:16 pm

    The idiots who say we will have symbiotic relationships with AI need to be stopped.

  14. @tehdii

    August 3, 2025 at 12:48 pm

    I even have a name for the first female robot stand up: Comely… 😉

  15. @vesawuoristo4162

    August 3, 2025 at 1:18 pm

    Funny and truthful

  16. @hovkibot

    August 3, 2025 at 1:41 pm

    What is happening to TED talks bro

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    August 3, 2025 at 1:44 pm

    Redban would like to have you on the secret show

  18. @kinsmed

    August 3, 2025 at 2:03 pm

    Yeah. This is what a TED Talk could be- engaging and humorous.
    Jena is pretty edgy but is right on the money about what it will take to make people pay attention in the future.

    • @SyddG

      August 3, 2025 at 6:47 pm

      Edgy? Jena Friedman is what I imagine Pam from The Office would be like as a stand up comedian.

  19. @newton9337

    August 3, 2025 at 4:25 pm

    Every. Single. Time.

  20. @cubulous

    August 3, 2025 at 4:51 pm

    This was so important. Echo chambers and confirmation biases are being weaponized against us. I am always looking to be challenged. Being uncomfortable helps me to evaluate myself and my own biases and shortsightedness. If I ONLY ever seek out places where I agree with everything being said, then I’m not growing and I’m definitely not interested in the understating of or empathy for others who disagree with me. Humanity is a spectrum.

  21. @MikeMartinez74

    August 3, 2025 at 5:03 pm

    Maybe she’s not the best speaker for this topic.

  22. @sbpsychology1109

    August 3, 2025 at 5:14 pm

    Elegant, intelligent, (human, not artificial) and well delivered…and rather funny too. Thank you.

  23. @EpicVideos2

    August 3, 2025 at 5:57 pm

    If this was veo3 I would tell you that the visuals are great but the ai voice model needs work, sounds too robotic.

  24. @digicube9074

    August 3, 2025 at 6:12 pm

    Amy Schumer is more funnier than her.

    • @SyddG

      August 3, 2025 at 6:47 pm

      I don’t like nepotism (Amy Schumer, the powerful Senator’s first cousin) but Amy Schumer actually is funny with real wit and edge. Jena Friedman is what I imagine Pam from The Office would be like as a stand up comedian.

  25. @ForAnAngel

    August 3, 2025 at 7:42 pm

    The problem with AI is that we can stop making technological advancements in AI… but the Chinese won’t. And letting them surpass us would be even worse.

  26. @Ro8infinitymusic

    August 4, 2025 at 5:41 am

    SHe looks like female american version of jimmy carr. Her facial expression is exactly the same, and even the pauses

  27. @danielsharp2012

    August 4, 2025 at 8:24 am

    Funny jokes.
    Needs work on delivery pacing.

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    August 4, 2025 at 9:14 am

    @wesome

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    August 4, 2025 at 9:26 am

    lol I don’t think she caught the own joke she had “It’s just healthcare” – If robots determine abortion to be murder then they will just run around dishing out some healthcare to all humans.

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  70. @Breezysleezyeazelee

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    Ironic that ai is funnier than this

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    August 5, 2025 at 6:10 am

    She’s fab ❤

  72. @AIForHumansShow

    August 5, 2025 at 9:34 am

    This was great. Jenna’s been so funny for a long time. One thing about the TED videos that I wonder is whether or not this idea of the videos rolling out over time is a good plan or if they should just drop them daily for like two weeks after the conference. I mean I get the idea of spreading the content out but nowadays I think a slight tweak would make this stuff pop more?

    Anyways, it’s always good content.

  73. @sty0pa

    August 5, 2025 at 2:42 pm

    Maybe don’t rely on your standup. Flogging the whingy victim thing is so 2023.

  74. @sty0pa

    August 5, 2025 at 2:51 pm

    What is funnier than her jokes is that she probably TO THIS DAY doesn’t understand that her victim-mantra is the *exact* sort of tiresome whinging that got Trump elected.
    “abortion’s going to be illegal! durr’ – women are literally the largest demographic in the population. The USSC ruled that it’s not a federal issue, so the states can decide what they want. Women can swing the vote in every single state. So you don’t like giving women the vote or a voice in their government? “No, because it’s not going the way I want!” /poutface (*stamps foot*)

  75. @JKCinema

    August 5, 2025 at 6:21 pm

    Absolutely brilliant!

  76. @johnmckee4877

    August 6, 2025 at 7:03 am

    It makes me so happy how uncomfortable the crowd is.

  77. @Bythirteen

    August 6, 2025 at 8:59 am

    She did so amazing!

  78. @janitorbobb

    August 6, 2025 at 11:58 am

    John Cleese is rolling over in his grave.

  79. @umair.siddiquie

    August 6, 2025 at 5:38 pm

    Why not

  80. @toreon1978

    August 6, 2025 at 8:44 pm

    6:09 That’s not the LLM it‘s OpenAIs filter.

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