Funny Business: telling jokes to companies like… and more [Karl Toomey]

Editor: Karl Toomey
Publication: 2017, First Edition (Signed)
Binding: Softcover, perfect-bound
Pages: 72
Size: 148 x 210
Text: English

A record of Karl Toomey's experiment to discover whether large corporations have a sense of humour. Via live-chat services he told 30 multinational companies a joke and documented every exchange in unedited screenshots. The book mixes terrible and brilliant gags with a deliberately simple layout: a brief company description on the left page and the conversation on the right (names redacted). Prompted by the rise of bots and automation, Toomey frames the project as a modern-day Turing Test. Best case, you brighten a stranger’s day; worst case, a bot decides your jokes are rubbish. An introduction by Rob Alderson completes this wry, eye-catching document of corporate absurdity.

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