The Automatic Comedian

Ladies and gentleman, after the best part of a year, I'm proud to present ... The Automatic Comedian ! Unflappable, incomprehensible, and most importantly nigh-on indestructible, the Automatic Comedian will continue to yell things at you that you think you should be able to understand, long after you've struggled out of a sweaty, stinky comedy club and trundled all the way home to weep into your keyboard, distraught at your failure to employ an effective heckle.

Playing with language

Today I was looking at Get TEDPad, where a chap has run some statistical analysis against transcripts of the first five hundred or so TED lectures, and figured out how to generate snippets of new, non-existent TED speeches that sound either convincing and good quality English, or (when he switches it to the dark side) good quality English spoken by an idiot obsessed by whatever the New York Times tells him is important at this particular moment in time.