# Heather Knight: Silicon-based comedy

In this first-of-its-kind demo, Heather Knight introduces Data, a robotic stand-up comedian that does much more than rattle off one-liners -- it gathers audience feedback (using software co-developed with Scott Satkin and Varun Ramakrishna at CMU) and tunes its act as the crowd responds. Is this thing on?

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2011
- Runtime: 6 min
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Comedy, Education, Science
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/HeatherKnight_2010W)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/HeatherKnight_2010W?play=1)