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Speaker 1: To laugh or not to laugh, That is the question.

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Speaker 1: It's one more thing.

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Speaker 2: I'm strong and getty. Does anybody remember laughter?

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Speaker 1: So it's getting some attention in some circles for people

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Speaker 1: who watch Saturday Night Live Saturday Night this last weekend,

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Speaker 1: that there was so much of the cast of breaking

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Speaker 1: up and laughing during sketches. I mean, more than I've

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Speaker 1: ever seen ever combined in forty years watching the show

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Speaker 1: in one episode. And well, an interesting thing about that, Katie,

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Speaker 1: you're not old enough to have lived through the Carol

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Speaker 1: Burnett Show, which was a big popular sitcom, like the

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Speaker 1: number one show in America back in the seventies, but legendary.

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Speaker 1: These various clips were Harvey Corman and Tim Conway would

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Speaker 1: break each other up and laugh it. As a kid,

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Speaker 1: I really enjoyed it, and a lot of people enjoyed it,

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Speaker 1: and there's still popular YouTube clips. But it would seem

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Speaker 1: that there's a lit to how much of that you

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Speaker 1: can take based on Saturday Night Live. And we're gonna

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Speaker 1: play you some examples. There's some famous Saturday Night Live clips.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Jimmy Fallon used to break up a lot.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he just for some reason, some people can't

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Speaker 1: hold it together as well as other people. And I've

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Speaker 1: watched those clips over and over again and cried laughing.

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Speaker 1: It was so funny him breaking up. But it's just

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Speaker 1: like it's a good flavor. It can't be the whole

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Speaker 1: thing or something. Ryan Gosling, the host, for whatever reason,

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Speaker 1: he can't make it through thirty seconds of any sketch

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Speaker 1: without starting to laugh. That's an interesting personality thing, isn't

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Speaker 1: it that?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I think it is. I don't think it's like

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Speaker 3: a question of discipline.

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Speaker 1: No oh no, no, no, no, no no, I don't

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Speaker 1: think so either. But it's pretty interesting that you're just

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Speaker 1: so giggly even though you've got the script, You've rehearsed

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Speaker 1: it over and over again, you know what's coming, and

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Speaker 1: you can't keep from busting.

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Speaker 3: Up, right, Yeah, and well.

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Speaker 1: I should have maybe started with this. I'm a Saturday

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Speaker 1: Night Live freak. I've been so into it since the

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Speaker 1: first year. I've watched documentaries about it, I watched the

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Speaker 1: podcasts where the old cast members talk about various sketches.

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Speaker 1: I mean, just I'm super into Saturday Night Live. And

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Speaker 1: Lorne Michaels hates it when people break up, like that's

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Speaker 1: his rule. Number one, do not break up during a sketch.

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Speaker 1: We wrote these sketches in a certain way to be funny,

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Speaker 1: in a certain way, they'll be funniest if you don't

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Speaker 1: he he hates it. So I haven't seen this Ryan

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Speaker 1: Gosling thing. Is the laughter? Does it seem.

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Speaker 3: Forced or is it genuine?

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Speaker 1: No, it's definitely genuine, really, and most of it makes

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Speaker 1: me laugh because it's funny stuff happening. And then he

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Speaker 1: can't come from like but there, So the one that's

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Speaker 1: getting so much attention. And I read the article on

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Speaker 1: the Hollywood Reporter. Heidi Gardner, who's one of the regular

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Speaker 1: cast members completely lost it during the Beavis and butt

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Speaker 1: heead thing and which you're gonna hear a clip of

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Speaker 1: I don't know how well this is going to come across.

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Speaker 1: Very funny sketch, it's just it was. It was a

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Speaker 1: news program. It's like one of those town halls, political

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Speaker 1: town halls like you'd see on CNN or something like that,

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Speaker 1: and the host is talking to Keenan Thompson about AI

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Speaker 1: and stuff like that. Well, Ryan Gosling is over her shoulder,

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Speaker 1: looking exactly like Beavis from Beavis and butt Heead. I mean,

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Speaker 1: And then and when Keenan Thompson points out, sorry, just

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Speaker 1: the person behind you looks just like Beavis, and Ryan

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Speaker 1: Gosling's looking around like, who's he talking? But when the

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Speaker 1: Hondey Gardner turns around and sees him for the first time,

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Speaker 1: and then she can't talk for like a minute. And

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Speaker 1: at some point the whole thing falls apart and it

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Speaker 1: of her quotes about that from a Hollywood reporter I

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Speaker 1: could hit you with. But let's listen to the clip first.

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Speaker 2: But if human beings created the AI, can't we just

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Speaker 2: program it to not do that? Well it de bits?

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, are you serious? What I think that's

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Speaker 2: a valid question.

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Speaker 1: No, Now, they're a gentleman behind you that looks like

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Speaker 1: butt Heead Professor.

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Speaker 2: Just because our audience members aren't as informed on the

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Speaker 2: issue as you doesn't make them butt.

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Speaker 1: Heads butt head from the cartoon he Beavis his friend.

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Speaker 2: I'd really like to move on and discuss AI. So

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Speaker 2: would you like him to move? Yes, thank you. The

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Speaker 2: man with the gray shirt and exposed gums, sir, kindly

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Speaker 2: move seats. She's talking to you. Oh, I'm sorry. I

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Speaker 2: am so sorry. I'm confused.

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Speaker 1: I'm just here.

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Speaker 2: To learn about AI, so you know.

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Speaker 1: And then they set to get him out of the

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Speaker 1: line of view of the AI experts, so he's not

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Speaker 1: they're not distracting. They the person who looks like Beavis,

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Speaker 1: whose name is like Ralph, and the guy because they

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Speaker 1: never heard of this cartoon. They but they sit him

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Speaker 1: and then they're laughing at things.

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Speaker 3: So I have I have two comments. Number One, it's

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Speaker 3: not her fault that Keenan Thompson is the funniest human

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Speaker 3: being ever and everything he says is hilarious. Secondly, the

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Speaker 3: answer is the audience that they loved it. They're laughing

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Speaker 3: so hard they were crying.

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Speaker 2: Stop.

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Speaker 3: There's the end of discussion and let's all have fun. People,

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Speaker 3: come on, I don't need more fun.

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Speaker 1: From the sound of it, it also kind of sounds

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Speaker 1: like they might have set her up for that, like

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Speaker 1: look like, just for the shock value. Yeah, So what

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Speaker 1: I was wondering is because they do dress rehearsal right

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Speaker 1: put the prosthetics on, and he had these prosthetics on

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Speaker 1: his face that made him look like, yeah, butt head

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Speaker 1: a third of the way through the show, and Ryan

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Speaker 1: you just I mean I actually was and Henry, I

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Speaker 1: a limit to it, because like famously, like I said,

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Speaker 1: those Carol Burnett clips are the most famous Carol Burnett

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Speaker 1: when they would break each other up. Maybe it's just

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Speaker 1: a limit. Maybe that's it. Oh sure, yeah, yeah, odd

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Speaker 1: that Ryan Gosling cannot get through a line without laughing.

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Speaker 3: I think it's like people who cry a lot versus

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Speaker 3: people who cry a little. It's just it's part of

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Speaker 3: your your makeup. Which reminds me of my favorite conundrum, Katie.

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Speaker 3: I don't think I've ever hit this, hit you with this.

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Speaker 3: I may have if I have, forgive me, I'm getting old.

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Speaker 3: Have I ever done the I told you the one

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Speaker 3: about punching yourself in the face?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 3: Okay, So if I punch myself in the face so

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Speaker 3: hard it makes me cry, does that make me a

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Speaker 3: tough guy or a pussy.

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Speaker 2: Huh?

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Speaker 3: You know, I've never thought of that way.

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Speaker 1: That's like Einstein level right there. You gotta get Oppenheimer

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Speaker 1: on that one. It's got quantum mechanics in it or something.

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Speaker 1: It makes you a mental case.

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Speaker 3: But if you want to see a fun SNL skip skit.

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Speaker 2: Disneyland Jimmy fallon Disneyland where everybody's at the table and

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Speaker 2: they're discussing their trip to Disneyland and everybody cracks up.

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Speaker 2: It's a fun one to watch, it is well, I

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Speaker 2: guess that's it.