Want to Sign With a Hollywood Agent? Start Making Fun of AI

An AI interviewer routine is helping comedian Graham Raabe land real-world talent representation—and it began as a satire of how people game AI screening. Raabe, who works as a sales team manager in fintech, tells WIRED he started experimenting with workplace humor on Instagram and TikTok in May. His bits use wordplay and absurd corporate euphemisms, then escalate into rapid-fire “AI” job interviews inspired by agents from the AI lab Tavus. One exchange features “Chick Bongo” asking for a salary of “Six hundred,” which the bot reads as $600,000. Raabe says his Instagram doubled from about 50,000 to over 100,000 followers in two months.