Graham Raabe’s answer to an AI job interviewer is deliberately nonsensical. Introducing himself as “Chick Bongo,” he claims experience managing “badger margin” and working with “sprocket moss,” while the bot responds with scripted enthusiasm. When asked about his salary expectations, Raabe says “six hundred,” prompting the system to interpret the figure as a $600,000 request.
The exchange is part of Raabe’s “How to Fail Your AI Interview” series, a comedy format that has helped double his Instagram audience from roughly 50,000 to more than 100,000 followers in two months. Raabe, who works as a fintech sales-team manager, has also pursued stand-up and screenwriting for years and trained in improv and sketch at Upright Citizens Brigade.
He began posting workplace comedy on Instagram and TikTok in May, initially focusing on corporate language rather than artificial intelligence. His sketches replaced familiar meeting expressions with absurd alternatives such as “the hawk is on your glove.” He later used chatbots to generate corporate-jargon challenges before developing the AI interviewer concept with customizable video avatars from research company Tavus.
Raabe says AI works particularly well as a comedy partner because it plays the role of an overly serious performer who reacts literally to his improvisations. The series attracted comments from viewers describing their own experiences with automated job screenings, and Raabe subsequently signed with Dulcedo Management.
Dulcedo associate director Alex Melendez says the agency discovered Raabe when he had fewer than 10,000 followers. In his view, the humor comes from the gap between the sweeping claims made about AI and the technology’s difficulty with basic tasks. He argues that comedy gives audiences a way to process an otherwise intimidating cultural shift.
Other creators have built similar careers by targeting AI’s limitations. Matt Husk’s videos often show ChatGPT failing at tasks ranging from counting to using a stopwatch. His content has attracted about 2 million followers across Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and he signed with the talent agency Unicorn.
Husk’s videos have also drawn attention from OpenAI. During an appearance on the technology podcast Mostly Human, CEO Sam Altman reacted to a clip in which ChatGPT treated a few seconds as approximately 10 minutes when used as a timer. Altman described the problem as known and said the voice model might need another year to handle timing accurately.
Sam Wassef takes a different approach, portraying a humanoid chatbot that speaks in the rambling, contradictory style associated with AI-generated responses. His Instagram account, @ahh.gpt, has more than 860,000 followers. His videos are part of a planned series of 100 posts and have expanded into more elaborate scenes, including one set in an empty shopping mall.
Wassef is represented by Night Media, while Husk works with Unicorn and Raabe with Dulcedo. Their deals reflect growing interest from the entertainment industry in creators who can find original comedic angles on AI as studios incorporate the technology into film and television production.
The creators’ representatives also view the AI-focused formats as a starting point rather than the entire business. Melendez says the longer-term objective is for audiences to follow the performers themselves, not just a viral trend or recurring format. In his assessment, viral attention can create an opportunity, but sustained careers depend on the talent behind it.
Sources: WIRED.