Comedy

ROBOT <i>MANZAI</i>: ROBOT CONVERSATION AS A PASSIVE–SOCIAL MEDIUM

Kotaro Hayashi, Takayuki Kanda, Takahiro Miyashita, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Norihiro Hagita

Citations: 70 • 2008

Robot improv: using drama to create believable agents

A. Bruce, James C. Knight, Sergey Listopad, Brian Magerko, Illah Nourbakhsh

Citations: 61 • 2002

Robot Comedy Lab: experimenting with the social dynamics of live performance

Kleomenis Katevas, Patrick G. T. Healey, Matthew Tobias Harris

Citations: 55 • 2015

Comedians in Cafes Getting Data

John Vilk, Naomi T. Fitter

Citations: 40 • 2020

A Robot Walks into a Bar: Can Language Models Serve as Creativity SupportTools for Comedy? An Evaluation of LLMs’ Humour Alignment with Comedians

Piotr Mirowski, Juliette Love, Kory W. Mathewson, Shakir Mohamed

Citations: 33 • 2024

Robot manzai - robots' conversation as a passive social medium ~

Kotaro Hayashi, Takayuki Kanda, Takahiro Miyashita, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Norihiro Hagita

Citations: 31 • 2006

Robotic Stand-Up Comedy: State-of-the-Art

Anton Nijholt

Citations: 23 • 2018

Bipedal humanoid robot that makes humans laugh with use of the method of comedy and affects their psychological state actively

Tatsuhiro Kishi, Nobutsuna Endo, Takashi Nozawa, Takuya Otani, Sarah Cosentino, Massimiliano Zecca, Kenji Hashimoto, A. Takanishi

Citations: 15 • 2014

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

Jonas Sjöbergh, Kenji Araki

Citations: 13 • 2008

Robots That Run their Own Human Experiments: Exploring Relational Humor with Multi-Robot Comedy

Janani Swaminathan, Jane Akintoye, Marlena R. Fraune, Heather Knight

Citations: 11 • 2021

Peculiar Attunements: Comic Opera and Enlightenment Mimesis

Roger Mathew Grant

Citations: 10 • 2016

Development of a Humorous Humanoid Robot Capable of Quick-and-Wide Arm Motion

Tatsuhiro Kishi, S. Shimomura, H. Futaki, H. Yanagino, M. Yahara, Sarah Cosentino, Takashi Nozawa, Kenji Hashimoto, A. Takanishi

Citations: 10 • 2016

The Importance of Realism, Character, and Genre: How Theatre Can Support the Creation of Likeable Sociable Robots

Louise LePage

Citations: 8 • 2020

Women Are Funny: Influence of Apparent Gender and Embodiment in Robot Comedy

Nisha Raghunath, Paris Myers, Christopher A. Sanchez, Naomi T. Fitter

Citations: 8 • 2021

Generating Funny Dialogue between Robots based on Japanese Traditional Comedy Entertainment

Ryo Mashimo, Tomohiro Umetani, Tatsuya Kitamura, Akiyo Nadamoto

Citations: 8 • 2014

Adventure! comedy! tragedy! robots! how bioethicists learned to stop worrying and embrace their inner cyborgs

Carl Elliott

Citations: 8 • 2005

A Philosophy of Comedy on Stage and Screen

Shaun M. May

Citations: 7 • 2015

“This Bot Knows What I’m Talking About!” Human-Inspired Laughter Classification Methods for Adaptive Robotic Comedians

Carson C. Gray, Trevor Webster, Brian Ozarowicz, Yuhang Chen, Timothy T. Bui, Ajitesh Srivastava, Naomi T. Fitter

Citations: 6 • 2022

Automatic generation of Japanese traditional funny scenario from web content based on web intelligence

Ryo Mashimo, Tomohiro Umetani, Tatsuya Kitamura, Akiyo Nadamoto

Citations: 5 • 2015

Your Wit Is My Command

Tony Veale

Citations: 5 • 2021