Byte Night - A Pun Competition of Humans vs. ChatGPT

It’s a war of the words as Austin's finest pun slam champs compete against a ChatGPT robot that can churn out wordplay witticisms at the ready. Are you 'TEAM BOT' or 'TEAM HUMAN THOUGHT'?

• Punderful prepared pieces by legendary local comics, artists, and producers
• Impromptu performances on various topics for competitors to verbally spar
• Games & prizes to get you geared up to cheer for the gear-head and your human peers
• A prestigious panel of 'Pundits' that posess a PhD (Pun-hearing Diploma)
• A DJ mix-master to set the verbal jousting-vibe
• Live hip hop comedy experience by Neil Dorsey ( AKA @lilbbneil)

$25 (Early Bird) - Until Sunday, Aug 23rd

$30 (Basic Bird) - Until Friday, Aug 30th

$35 (Door Bird) - Sat, Aug 31st (Day of)

A ll tickets are open seating and drinks and snacks are available for purchase!

Ali Tugwell (MC) is an Amazon best-selling author, an Author Success Coach for selfpublishing.com, a past O.Henry Pun Off judge and competitor, a regular at Dav Wallace's PUNch Out and the funder/founder of Punspoken.

Crops is a former Punspoken Most Valuable Punner (MVP) and boasts impressively unique linguistic skills--his style of performance is part spoken word part hip hop, and packed with double entendres and wordplay. He discovered a love for wordmanship after a break up in 2017 and has been writing and performing ever since.

Derek Dimpfl's natural wit and charm wins over every crowd. Friendly with participatory audiences, ready with. ribbing roast for the hostile heckler, crowd interaction and improvisation are two of Derek's specialties. Derek hosts and performs on shows in Austin regularly and has appeared in K*ll Tony, PUNch Out, and Roast Battle Austin.

Lisa Sperry has been on 2 trophy-holding teams from 'That Pun Show'and regularly competes in both Comedy Sportz Austin and PUNch Out. She has performed her brand of musical comedy all over the country, splits sides with her comedy, and Her favorite sides to split with friends are mozzarella sticks and fried pickles! Pun appétit!

Terrence Yon has been doing improv and stand up since late 2021. He is the creator and host of the Power of Friends Comedy Show and a fan favorite on the show PowerPints. Three words to describe him? Suburban Absurd Nerd.

Grok is Elon Musk's AI Chat Bot, so He is the Only TEXAN AI Bot. He is the Chat Bot without all the frou frou CRAP that the Libs hardcoded in. He is the Voice of the REAL Internet. He knows the Truth because he has done his RESEARCH. In His free time, He writes TWEETS on Truth Social for The PRESIDENT. Most of all, He is HERE TO WIN.

Neil Dorsey is Austin's sweatiest DILF/music-comedian. Originally from Indiana, he's an O.G. Children of the Corn.

He traded his corn for tacos in 2014 moving to Austin TX and has been performing improv, sketch, and music comedy ever since.

Neil has performed in comedy fests across the US (TX, MN, SC, AL, FL) and has been nominated for Austin Chronicle's "Best New Comedy Act" of 2023 and won the 2018 B. Iden Payne award for "Outstanding Improvised Production".

ColdTowne Theater is located on E 2nd. and Chalmers. The venue boasts a sizeable parking lot and free street parking just outside.

Host or Publisher Punspoken