COMIC: Agentic Sketch Comedy Generation
arXiv cs.CV / 3/12/2026
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Key Points
- The paper proposes a fully automated AI system that generates short comedic videos in a sketch-show style using a population of agents modeled after real production studio roles to iteratively compete, evaluate, and improve ideas.
- A key contribution is the use of LLM-based critics aligned with viewer preferences, learned by analyzing a corpus of comedy videos on YouTube to automatically evaluate humor.
- Experiments report that the framework yields results approaching professionally produced sketches and demonstrates state-of-the-art performance in video generation.
- The work highlights potential implications for how comedic content is produced, evaluated, and iterated, with downstream effects on creative workflows and media production pipelines.
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