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Thomas Winters

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Oct 2026

In and Out of the Circle of Expectations: Large Language Models in Improvised Comedy

Current computational humor research disproportionately equates humor with prewritten joke production, overlooking the spontaneous nature of most human comedy. This article argues for shifting focus to improvised humor, utilizing Keith Johnstone’s “circle of expectations” as a theoretical framework for evaluating lar...

Boyd Branch, Gunter Lösel, K. Mathewson et al. · 0 citations

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