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This absurd parody proves that all TED Talks really do sound the same

Everybody wants graphs.

Morgan Sung

on October 19, 2018

It's not just you: A lot of TED Talks sound the same.

Comedian and writer Keaton Patti -- who imagined what a White House press briefing written by a bot might sound like -- just shared a new imagined bot script, this time parodying the language of lofty TED Talks.

The "visibly clothed" TED TALKER opens the bizarrely inspirational lecture -- given in a "place where you can talk" -- with an anecdote about his or her grandfather, who was "paid for for being old."

"He told me there's just enough plastic in the ocean for someone to marry," the TED TALKER states. "But we're almost out of time." The audience doesn't care much about the actual TED Talk, but are insistent that they be shown graphs.

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"The crowd likes the graph since it is a graph and they like graphs for the reasons they have," the script reads. Honestly, how relatable.

When the plastic from the ocean breaks into the room, the crowd "waits to see if it this will somehow turn into a graph."

Patti even mocked up a very scientific graph for our enjoyment.

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Patti jokes that bots write these scripts after watching 1,000 hours of content. While they're actually just delightful parodies, people really love them.