Just four months into its run at Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, Hack Comedy Night is featuring some big names, from a lovelorn Planet Earth feeling lonely on Valentine’s Day to ChadGPT, who is ChatGPT’s little brother fresh out of business school. Even U.S. President Joe Biden — or at least his voice — seems to have been on hand.
The show takes place monthly, with the next show on April 22, with Orion Levine as the featured comic. There will be standup, but audiences also can expect some sketch-style elements that take inspiration from “Saturday Night Live,” including a “news” segment skewering tech headlines, said Victor Treviño, who founded the event and currently co-presents it with fellow techies and comedians Richard Barney and Ryan Sudhakaran.
Lately, AI art generators have also been making an appearance at the comedy nights, and changing the face of the event (or at least…