COMIC: Agentic Sketch Comedy Generation
Abstract
An AI system generates comedic videos using agent-based optimization and LLM critics trained on YouTube comedy data, producing content comparable to professional sketch shows.
We propose a fully automated AI system that produces short comedic videos similar to sketch shows such as Saturday Night Live. Starting with character references, the system employs a population of agents loosely based on real production studio roles, structured to optimize the quality and diversity of ideas and outputs through iterative competition, evaluation, and improvement. A key contribution is the introduction of LLM critics aligned with real viewer preferences through the analysis of a corpus of comedy videos on YouTube to automatically evaluate humor. Our experiments show that our framework produces results approaching the quality of professionally produced sketches while demonstrating state-of-the-art performance in video generation.
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Can AI be funny? From minimal input, our framework creates comedic scripts and videos with YouTube-aligned critics.
Watch videos here: https://susunghong.github.io/COMIC/
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