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by William Tenn

Excellent short story by Tenn (a pseudonym of Philip Klass) depicts a famous comedian who orders a fancy robotic butler with a new-fangled joke-telling feature.

('The Jester' by William Tenn)

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'Comical Robot' An Aid To Conversations
   Ah... how do you fill those awkward silences? This little robot can help.

Toyota's Human Support Robot - Your Robot Butler
   'Her idea of what a butler-valet combo should look like - sort of in the ancient English tradition...' - William Tenn, 1951.

RoboThespian - Robot Comedian Wants Louis CK's Job
   Even on microwire that file of jokes took up a lot of space...- William Tenn, 1951.

A.L.O. Robot Butler Serves You At Aloft Hotel
   'Her idea of what a butler-valet combo should look like...'- William Tenn, 1951.

Ginger the LOLbot
   'His capacity to distinguish between gags that are partly funny and gags that are very funny'- William Tenn, 1951.

Comedian Robot Named Data
   '[The] capacity to distinguish between gags that are partly funny and gags that are very funny' - William Tenn, 1951.

Pun Generation Via Neural Nets
   'You said you wanted him to be able to distinguish between laugh-power in different gags...' - William Tenn, 1951.

Memes Now Come From Neural Nets
   'Your order said for him to be able to be able to work out twists on the gags in the file...' - William Tenn, 1951.

Pathways Language Model (PaLM) Is No Joke
   'Electronic differentiation of the grotesque, as it says in the specifications - in man, a sense of humor.' - William Tenn, 1951.

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