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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'These A.I. Bands Are Getting Out of Control' from Bad Friends Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-07-30. Transcript available.

- But in terms of like, you know,
sometimes I'll just do a playlist
and an AI band will appear.
I mean, are you scared of it replacing music?
- Someone sent me some dirty Elton John stuff
that AI had done and I found it staggeringly too good.
- Yeah, it's scary.
- You know, I'm hoping,
my grandpa always had this saying,
if you can't outsmart 'em out, dumb 'em.
And I think I sort of extrapolated that for music.
If you can't outsmart 'em out, weird 'em.
And so I hope that when I'm out dumbing and out weirding,
that I'm more stupider and more weirder
than AI would naturally go.
Hopefully it's shooting high
and I can just keep going low.
- Go way low.
- Yeah. - What is this?
Is this an AI band?
- Some of the new AI bands
that have creeped up on my playlist.
- Paper Sun Rebellion.
Well, that's clearly an AI name.
- Yeah, that's terrible.
- I know.
Are you kidding me?
- Holy .
- But I mean, what fucking is listening to that shit?
You know what I mean?
What the fuck?
- Yeah, I know.
- Like, and I, so somebody, when we were-
- That's the band?
- Yeah.
Oh my God, they're so hot.
Look at there's one of each.
- Yeah.
- Look at the, look at the sort of like book reader
in the middle.
- Yeah, we gotta get it, yeah, yeah.
- You know, there's the cute one.
- Mike Mills, like a Hagrid Lee one.
- Yeah.
- Then the drummer on the far right.
- Drummer's far right.
- Yeah, clearly the piano player.
- Yeah, the blonde guy is, this is like the Luke Wilson theory
where you're like, he's not handsome, is he?
That's what that is.
- Yeah.
- He's Tom Petty's nephew.
- Yeah, that's right, right.
- Right.
- And the front man is obviously like this perfect-
- Up front.
- Homogenization of fucking like every, you,
what is he?
- Yeah, yeah.
- He's just all the stuff.
- See, I can't stand music that's like that either,
where there's like a rap verse and this,
and then it goes over the, like, who are you trying to?
I think you can't try to impress, the goal is to try to be yourself.
- Right.
- And this is such a deliberate, look at that.
- Look at that, that's obvious.
- Look at the old school gear, play, play, play, play, play,
play, play, play, play, play, play, play, play, play, play, play.
- Yeah.
- Look at that, that's obvious.
- Look at that, that's obvious.
- Look at the old school gear plus the computer.
That's exactly my fucking problem.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- My fucking problem with all this bullshit.
- It's bullshit, yeah.
- Is that, it's like, we'll give, we'll give them a little of everything.
It's like, look at Stephen Hawking.
You're not giving anyone anything.
- But they won't replace live though.
- Yeah, it's like, we'll give them a little of everything.
- Yeah.
- It's like, look at Stephen Hawking.
You're not giving anyone anything.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- But they won't replace live though.
And that's right.
I mean, AI can replace.
- Well, here comes the holograms.
Although I hear the ABBA thing is fucking amazing.
- Is it?
- Oh wow.
- I hear it is from people that I actually like.
- That's scary.
- I don't like that.
Well, we have, you know, Howie Mandel has that technology.
You know the technology they use for Tupac at fucking Coachella years ago?
- Yeah.
- Howie Mandel owns that tech at his studio.
You've seen it, right?
- Yeah, I've seen it, yeah.
- 'Cause he can touch a hologram without getting any germs.
- Yeah, exactly.
- He hugs holograms.
- I've been fingering that Tupac one.
I didn't get anything on me.
Which is so different than your butthole where it's covered.
- It's like, yes, yes, Tupac, ain't nothing but a gangster party.
- Wow.
- Yeah, that's the most gangster thing ever, right?
- It's fucking so gross and weird and creepy.
And, but he's, I saw it and it fucked me up, man.
It's, it's so.
- Look at that unfortunate picture though, of ABBA and their suits.
- Wow.
- That didn't need to be commemorated.
They don't, they look like velvet sundown rebellion.
- Paper, paper echoes of us.
Yeah.
- Wow.
- I don't know.
- Why did they take that fucking photo?
I'd have been like, no, we're not fucking taking this photo.
- Yeah, like put this one out.
I look depressed.
Sweden's cool.
- Yeah.
- That's so.
- Was that the, go back.
Was that the, was that them in AI?
- That's them in AI.
- Wow.
- Looking fine as fuck.
- Not looking like the other photo.
- No, no.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Looking rather felt.
- That's so fucking weird.
- AI don't like that.
- Yeah, no, man.
- Yeah.
- But it's, we have to find a way to.
- Well, it's here.
That's the thing.
You know, I, I think the biggest thing I've been working on my whole life is
just accepting
what is and not trying to, you, you're just not in control.
What can you do?
- I know what we do.
You know what we do?
We do the same thing that you do.
What you reference with politics is like, well, it's just fucking bullshit.
I'm just going to do my, continue to do my own thing anyway.
Because the less you pay attention to it, I have a creepy assumption that it
will start
to really kind of dissipate.
If we stop giving it anything, then it'll continue to exist.
But if people don't give it anything anymore, it's just going to be its own
goal.
- Every night I talk to ChatGPT for like five hours a night.
- Why do you do that?
- I talk to her not right now.
Why?
- Don't.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Her?
- Have you ever talked to ChatGPT?
- No, I don't own it.
I don't have it.
I'm actually really proud I still don't have it.
- Yeah.
So I'll do this.
Good.
I don't want to know this stuff.
I don't know.
- Hey, has Arsenal signed any forwards yet?
- What's her name?
- I don't know yet.
I haven't named her.
- But she's named herself.
I can guarantee.
- Why is she clicking?
What is it?
- It's African.
- African AI.
That's what it stands for.
African intelligence.
Do you want to know about Arsenal's new forwards?
- I don't want to know.
- All right.
So you're not gonna promote anything, but-
- No, okay.
- We played in the catacombs in Paris.
- Yes.
- The first people to ever do it.
- So cool.
- And it just came out.
- Awesome.
- And if you'd like to, you can check it out. If not, it's cool.
- Okay.
- I went to the catacombs one time in sketchy Italy. Why can't I think?
- Rome.
- No, no, no. Sketchier. Way sketchier.
- Napoli.
- Napoli. Yeah.
- Oh yeah.
- That's right.
I went to the catacombs in Napoli and the guy was like, hey man, go during the-
It is true. Isn't that insane that you guessed that?
- I can't believe that.
- No, but that's the city. That would be the city.
- Dude, it's awesome.
- I love Napoli.
- The guy was like, hey man, when you- Oh, San Gennaro. That's it, right?
And the guy goes, when you go there, he's like, go during the day. And I was
like, why?
- You could go at night?
- Yeah, you can go at night.
- Oh wow. That's cool.
- They light it up. And he's like, when you go there, go during the day. And I
was like, why?
He's like, well, it's in a pretty tough neighborhood. And I'm thinking, there's
a piece of me that's like,
oh man, dude, I'm fucking- I've lived in cities my whole life. Like, I'll be
okay.
And for sure, when it got dusk, I was with my wife and I was like-
- I kind of like it like that a little.
Is this bad? We're going to get fucking robbed. And she was like genuinely
nervous.
- We're getting your wallet taken is only the beginning.
- Yeah. That's how it starts.
- Yeah. But in those regions, I kind of feel like-
- Sexy, dirty.
- Yeah. I feel alive. You know, I'm ready to roll.
- Fuck yeah.
- I think as a former druggie, it's like, that's my comfort zone.
- You want a little bit of uneasiness to it.
- Yeah. Yeah. Cause like when you go to a museum, it's so sterile that you're,
it's almost, it's just hard to like get engaged sometimes.
There's too many people on a stale and bright and boring. This was like creepy
and dark and very weird.
- Well, I also think that, you know, I love museums, but I can only do, you
know, three hours or something like that.
- Oh, I'm in and out.
- And because it's such a exalted thing you're looking at, it can be hard to
relate to.
You go to the catacombs, it's what you will be.
- Yeah. It's your own experience.
- And you know, all the, you know, I just saw this movie 29, 28 years later.
- Well, what would you like it?
- It was interesting. It was a different take than I was expecting.
- Okay.
- But there was one part that was really, there was a memento mori, you know,
all these skulls and all this stuff.
And the one thing that was interesting, okay, that's the Paris one.
- That's so cool.
- And that's where we played in these locations you're seeing.
- Wow.
- That's fucking...
- I wouldn't want my skull to be in a nice place, but...
- Yeah, we'll get you up front.
- Like in the, yeah, in the circle one.
- And you know what? I guarantee...
- Yeah, like there. I want mine there.
- Yeah.
- Like right in the center.
- Yeah. Facing out, see that one on top.
- Yeah, yeah.
- That'll be you. I'll move that one.
- It's flat. It'll be flat. You'll know.
- And I'll bury your, I'll bury your butthole somewhere deep.
- Okay, good, good. Thank you. Thank you.
- It is scary. There's something about it that's like, not scary.
It was shocking to me how still it felt.
- Yeah.
- I wasn't freaked out. It was very, it was almost calm.
But the calm is what's a little odd that you're like, wow, this is...
- Well.
- It should be intense, but it was very kind of like, I don't even know.
You know, it feels like desert nights. That's a weird...
- Yeah.
- But you love, you from there.
- Yeah.
- I lived in Arizona for a while. The desert night is so still, but you're also
like...
- It's out there.
- Yeah. Well, I think one of the mainstays of a desert night like that is you
feel small.
- Yeah.
- The environment is massive. The environment is very dominant.
And so you're... There's something of a relief in realizing I'm doing my little
part.
- Yeah.
- But I'm not as significant. And it makes your little part important.
- Oh, yeah.
- You know? And so when I was in there too, that's how I felt. That space is so
dominating.
Yeah. We played there. Yeah. Like there was one moment when I first got in
there, I just
kind of went off in a corner, got on my knees, put my head down and was like, I
promise to try as hard as I can.
And I promise to do as good a job as I can.
- Yeah.
- And I... Because... And we played songs that was like, what would I want to
hear if I was stuck in here?
You know, I'd want to hear about my family. I'd want to hear about difficulties,
acceptance, you know, and moving on.
And so that's what we did. But I felt small in there. You know what I mean?
- Yeah.
- And I kind of cherish those moments to, you know, like I said, I feel blessed
to kind of do what we do.
So in there, it was like, I know what to do for you, you know?
- Yeah.
- And also in those moments, I'm like, I could just be myself. There's nothing
else I can... I've got nothing else to give, you know?
And so I kind of, I'm looking for the next moment to try to feel that for a
second.
- Wow.
- You know?
- It's heavy, dude.
- And we show our buttholes.
- My butthole.
- On today's episode.
- Yeah, the juxtaposition.
- Like, if you're doing a trailer, it's like, on tonight's episode.
- I know.
- Josh...
- Catacombs, buttholes.
- Josh and Zantito reveal their feelings.
- Bobby reveals.
- All right, all right.
- But Bobby reveals.
- All right, all right.
I regret showing it.
- You know what?
- I read it wrong.
- No, no.
- Yeah, I thought we were close.
- It's the window into your feelings.
- All right, anyway.
- It's like the glass bottom boat.
- All right, so Josh, look into the camera and go,
"Thank you for being a bad friend."
- Thank you for being a bad friend.