Comedy Isn’t Code — It’s Connection.

@evaalexocomedian As a comedian, show-runner, and producer in Montreal, I am genuinely INFURIATED. Using POC A.I COMEDIANS to promote your club is ETHICALLY AND MORALLY WRONG. Please tell me your thoughts cuz I am so tired of keeping quiet. #montreal #mtltiktok #montrealtiktok #standupcomedy #mtl ♬ original sound - evaalexocomedian

It’s been a busy time, and I haven’t been able to write — but I’d feel like I was doing a disservice if I didn’t say something.

Before our Tuesday show at Mackay, a fellow comic showed me one of the videos that’s been circulating. My initial reaction was immediate: that’s not something we would ever do at Comedy on Mackay. Social media suicide. I dismissed it right away as another example of how businesses misuse AI — something I’ve seen happen repeatedly until their ventures eventually folded. I brushed it off because, frankly, it wasn’t my show, not my problem.

Then it was brought to my attention again — this time by another comic — that the video had been created using Sora, OpenAI’s new text-to-video model. For those unfamiliar, Sora generates realistic, cinematic footage directly from written prompts. In other words, you can describe a scene, and Sora will create a moving image of it.

​However, Eva Alexos from The Kickback posted an argument that made me think more deeply. This isn’t about business models or branding — it’s about what makes comedy so profoundly human: the humans themselves.

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