Comedians are finding viral success and securing Hollywood representation by creating inventive sketches that mock and satirize artificial intelligence tools. Among them is Graham Raabe, a sales manager in the fintech sector who has built a comedy following on Instagram and TikTok by interacting with AI job interview bots using total nonsense.
Rising Through Bizarro AI Interviews
Raabe has been pursuing stand-up comedy and screenwriting as hobbies for nearly a decade and trained in improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade theater. He initially began posting workplace comedy videos on Instagram and TikTok in May, experimenting with clever linguistic substitutions for office clichés, such as replacing standard phrases with terms like “the decision goblin lives at your address” or “we brought forks to a soup party.”
He later expanded into office jargon quizzes with chatbots before discovering the interview agents created by the AI research lab Tavus. This led to his popular series titled “How to Fail Your AI Interview,” where he derails screenings with absurd claims, such as knowing the bot in college or inventing fictional sales metrics like “managing badger margin” and spending time with “sprocket moss.” As Raabe told WIRED, AI serves as the ultimate straight man for improvisational comedy.
The concept quickly gained traction, bringing in comments from users sharing their own frustrating experiences with automated screening tools. This transition into AI comedy helped Raabe double his Instagram audience from 50,000 to over 100,000 followers and earned him representation at Dulcedo Management, a talent agency operating across North America.
Industry Reaction and Other Viral Creators
Alex Melendez, associate director of gaming and entertainment at Dulcedo, told WIRED that the agency discovered Raabe when he had fewer than 10,000 followers and was immediately impressed by his timing and original premises. Melendez explained that the comedy works because of the inherent contradiction surrounding the technology, noting that while people hear about AI transforming industries, they also witness it struggle with basic tasks.
Raabe is part of a broader cohort of creators landing agent deals through AI satire, including Matt Husk and Sam Wassef. Husk, known online for surreal dialogues with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, has accumulated roughly two million followers across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. In his viral clips, he asks the chatbot for help with simple tasks like counting to a hundred or escaping quicksand, exposing severe reasoning glitches and earning himself a representation deal with the talent agency Unicorn.
These viral tests have even reached tech executives. In April, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reacted on a podcast to a Husk video where ChatGPT measured a few seconds as lasting about ten minutes, laughing at the glitch and calling it a known issue that would take another year to fix. Meanwhile, tech developers and product managers have reached out to creators like Raabe to express appreciation for pointing out specific skill gaps in their tools.
Sam Wassef, operating as @ahh.gpt on Instagram with over 860,000 followers, takes a different approach by performing humanoid parodies of chatbots that deliver non sequiturs while guzzling water. Wassef is signed with talent managers Mikayla Haycock and Adam Loria at Night Media. According to Melendez, while virality opens doors for these performers, the ultimate objective for creators like Raabe, Husk, and Wassef is to build lasting careers based on their overall talent rather than just a passing trend.
