{"id":2086,"date":"2005-03-24T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-24T14:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2086"},"modified":"2018-07-06T07:09:41","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T12:09:41","slug":"2086","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/24\/2086\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hottest Thing Since"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, entrepreneurs have decided that some people don&#8217;t want to sing a la karaoke; they want to lip synch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/digiwood\/0,1412,66964,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3\" target=\"_new\">comedy routines<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Karaoke is soooooo 1990s. For those who&#8217;d rather make people laugh at their punch lines than cringe at their high notes, the new wave in participatory entertainment is Joke-e-oke.<\/p>\n<p>The premise behind Joke-e-oke is that, at some level, everyone wants to be a comedian. It&#8217;s a form of entertainment software that allows people, momentarily, to realize this ambition while emulating the classic comedy routines of their favorite comedians.<\/p>\n<p>The idea for Joke-e-oke is simple. It&#8217;s basically karaoke with stand-up comedy material. Many dream of the chance to be a comedian with killer material in front of a laughing crowd. With Joke-e-oke, people are able to live out their comedy fantasy of being their favorite comedian onstage, choosing from a list of stand-up comedy icons to perform. A built in laugh track is added, timed perfectly to accent punch lines. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow, those whacky entrepreneurs will try anything!  But seriously, I think this will be the hottest thing since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,113222,00.html\" target=\"_new\">Movieoke<\/a>, which is at least six degrees Kelvin above absolute zero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, entrepreneurs have decided that some people don&#8217;t want to sing a la karaoke; they want to lip synch comedy routines: Karaoke is soooooo 1990s. For those who&#8217;d rather make people laugh at their punch lines than cringe at their high notes, the new wave in participatory entertainment is Joke-e-oke. The premise behind Joke-e-oke is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20395,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086\/revisions\/20395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}