Comedian Sebastian Maniscalco doesn’t really know what to think artificial intelligence in industry.
The stand-up comedian told Fox News Digital that he thought live entertainment would always exist, but he has used the new technology in his personal life.
“I don’t know how it’s going to affect stand-up comedy,” Maniscalco said of AI. “I guess we haven’t really seen that yet. I haven’t been as aware of AI as being like, ‘Oh, wow.’ I mean, I know my wife used it to redesign our kitchen, what our kitchen could look like if we remodeled it, which is really cool to see.”
He said he thinks “live entertainment will always be around, but who knows… In 20 years I might talk to you and you might say, ‘Wow, you never saw AI coming “. I’d say, ‘Yeah, now I’m unemployed.'”
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Sebastian Maniscalco said he primarily uses AI for his emails. (Jason Kempin/Getty Images for Nobody Does This Tour)
The 50-year-old said he primarily uses AI to write emails.
“I’ve often taken what I wanted to say in an email and asked the AI to write it with correct grammar and tense, because the way I write emails is like Rocky ” he joked. “So it takes Rocky Balboa and it makes me feel like I went to Yale.”
He joked that the AI that writes his emails is “a little inauthentic” because someone who receives a message from him might wonder, “‘Who is that?’ But what is my state of mind, at least you know what I’m saying.”
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The ‘About My Dad’ star warned that without using AI grammar support: “If I wrote it down, you might say, you know, you might respond with ‘What?’ This is how I use AI in my daily life.”
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He added that the AI translates “my speech into correct grammar, as if I had gone to college, which I did. I got a four-year degree.”
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Maniscalco, who begins his national stand-up (and fittingly grammatically incorrect) tour It Ain’t Right on July 11 in Norfolk, Virginia, graduated from Northern Illinois University in 1995.
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“But the way I talk is the way I write,” he says with a laugh. “And I put it this way: I’ve often used the phrase ‘Would you like’ and then ‘Would you like’. It’s not even – it’s so bad grammatically… But you understand from what am I talking about, I made my living from it, then.
Sebastian Maniscalco with his father Salvatore and co-star Robert De Niro at the premiere of “About My Father” last year. (Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)
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The comedian also told Fox News Digital that he does not “modify” when he writes jokes.
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“I’d be lying to you if I said, ‘Oh, I don’t know, is it worth doing this joke because it might provoke a, b and c?’ There’s a little bit of that, but I don’t know I’ve been all over the country, and I feel like the people who come to my shows at least are dying to laugh, whether it’s appropriate. or inappropriate, I mean, I hate using the word “inappropriate”.
Sebastian Maniscalco with his wife Lana and their children. (Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for the Hammer Museum)
He thinks there’s only a “small portion of the population that tends to get distorted by certain content, and those people tend to have a loud voice.”
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“But I would say that, for the most part, the majority are just looking for a way to laugh,” he added. “And comedians are more popular than ever because I think it’s the only real form of entertainment that exists right now that’s truly new and real. »
