Comedian John Mulaney was hired to perform standup at a tech event in San Francisco last week that the event’s organizers would likely rather soon forget. However, his audience-jabbing jokes have subsequently made their way to the internet, where fans are rallying around Mulney’s brashness.
According to The San Francisco Standard , Mulaney had been performing a 45-minute set at the Salesforce 2024 Dreamforce AI conference. But in between jokes about fatherhood, his parents, and stint in rehab a few years back, the 42-year-old worked the audience and roasted attendees.
“Let me get this straight. You’re hosting a ‘future of AI’ event in a city that has failed humanity so miserably?” Mulaney said early into his set, amid apparent “groaning” from the crowd.
“You look like a group who looked at the self-checkout counters at CVS and thought, ‘This is the future,’” he continued. “If AI is truly smarter than us and tells us that [humans] should die, then I think we should die. So many of you feel imminently replaceable.”