Comedian Sebastian Maniscalco doesn’t know what to make of artificial intelligence in the industry.
The stand-up comic told Fox News Digital that he believes live entertainment is here to stay, but that he uses new technology in his personal life.
“I don’t know how it’s going to impact stand-up comedy,” Maniscalco said of AI. “I don’t think we’ve really seen it yet. I wasn’t really into the heartbeat of AI and was like, ‘Wow, that’s cool.'” I mean, my wife used it to redesign our kitchen. I know we did, but it would be really cool to see what the kitchen would look like if we remodeled it. ”
He said, “There will always be live entertainment, but no one knows…Twenty years from now, when I’m talking to you, you’re like, ‘Wow, I never saw AI coming. You might say, ‘There wasn’t.'” I was like, “Yeah, I’m unemployed now.” ”
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Sebastian Maniscalco said he primarily uses AI for email. (Jason Kempin/Getty Images, Nobody Does This Tour)
The 50-year-old said he primarily uses AI to write emails.
“I would often receive an email with what I wanted to say and ask the AI to write it with the correct grammar and tenses, because the way I write emails is similar to Rocky,” he joked. said. “So Rocky Balboa makes it sound like you went to Yale.”
He joked that having an AI write an email is “a little inauthentic,” because people who receive messages from the AI might “think, ‘Who the heck is that?'” But you know what I think, or at least you know what I’m saying. ”
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The “About My Father” star warned that without AI grammar support, “if I write that, you might be like, ‘What?'” That’s how I use AI in my daily life. ”
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He added: “The AI translates my speech into correct grammar as if I had gone to university. In fact, I had a four-year degree.”
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Maniscalco, who begins his national (and grammatically incorrect) It Ain’t Right stand-up tour in Norfolk, Virginia, on July 11, graduated from Northern Illinois University in 1995.
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“But the way I speak is the same as the way I write,” he said with a laugh. “So I said, “I often use the phrase “Would you like to…?” and then “Would you like to…”?” That’s grammatically speaking. It’s so bad…but I understand that I make a living from it. ”
Sebastian Maniscalco, his father Salvatore and co-star Robert De Niro at the premiere of ‘About My Father’ last year. (Dia Dipaspil/Getty Images)
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The comic also told Fox News Digital that he doesn’t “edit” himself when writing jokes.
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“I’d be lying if I said, ‘Oh, I don’t know, is it worth making that joke because it could cause a, b, and c?'” There’s a little bit of that, but I I travel all over the country, and at least the people who come to my shows, I feel like they want to laugh, whether it’s appropriate or not. , I hate using the word “inappropriate.” ”
Sebastian Maniscalco with his wife Lana and children. (Stephanie Keenan/Getty Images, Hammer Museum)
He believes that “only a small percentage of the population tends to bend over certain materials, and those people tend to be the loudest.”
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“But I think for the most part, the majority are just looking for an outlet for a laugh,” he added. “And comedians are more popular than ever because I think that’s the only form of entertainment that’s really unedited and authentic that’s happening right now.”
