London, Monday 9 November 2026
What happens when a comedian builds an AI version of himself and puts it on stage? Stand-up Garrett Millerick is finding out in Comedy vs AI: Garrett Millerick’s I, Robot, a live comedy experiment in residency at the Royal Institution in Mayfair. Working with AI engineering specialist Dr JD Marsters and WiFi Wars co-creator Steve McNeil, he has created G-Dog 2.0, a live AI clone of himself. The first of three “experiment” shows takes place in the Ri’s Library on 28 November 2026 at 7pm, building to a results show in the Faraday Theatre on 17 July 2027.
1. A comedian goes head to head with his own AI clone
G-Dog 2.0 is a live AI clone of Garrett that matches his voice, his face and his comedic style, performing to a paying audience and reacting in real time. It has been fed Garrett’s full creative archive – 15 years of material, including everything he has written, every podcast he has recorded and every special he has made. The aim isn’t simply to mimic surface-level mannerisms, but to converse, create and deliver on a par with the real thing. The team are even working on timing, emphasis and the pause before a punchline, treating comedy as a science as well as an art. Watching the human and the machine side by side promises to be fascinating, funny and occasionally a little unnerving.
2. The most analogue comedian imaginable takes on AI
What makes this project especially intriguing is who’s behind it. Garrett is known among his peers for steering clear of AI tools – he doesn’t even use a computer, and writes his sets by hand with pen and paper. In early 2026 he began to wonder, like many people in many professions, whether the AI revolution might one day make his job obsolete. Rather than wait to be swallowed by what he calls the cyber-whale on the horizon, he decided to dive in and wrestle the beast himself. It’s a refreshingly hands-on response to a question a lot of us are asking.
3. It has already been road-tested at the Edinburgh Fringe
Garrett performed nightly alongside G-Dog 2.0 during a 30-day run at the Edinburgh Fringe 2026, a world-first experiment that the team describe as fascinating, unexpected and, on occasion, slightly terrifying. Over those shows, Garrett felt the clone was noticeably improving and getting closer to him, while still falling short of fully replicating what he does. Armed with that data, the team secured the Royal Institution residency to keep developing the system. The central question they’re testing is: “Can a Generative AI system mimic the exact sense of humour and outlook of an individual comedian”. Each new show builds on the findings of the last, so the experiment will evolve over the course of the residency.
4. The audience becomes part of the experiment
This isn’t a show where you simply sit back and watch. Every phone in the room becomes part of the performance, with audience members voting, reacting and sending in questions as the experiment unfolds. Video plays in sync across every handset and the big screen at the same moment. Both Garrett and G-Dog 2.0 will interact with the crowd while exploring the mechanics of writing and performing comedy. Along the way, the trio will tackle questions such as whether clowns face extinction and whether comedy is binary.
5. A thoughtful, ethical approach with serious credentials
The G-Dog 2.0 system is contained and sandboxed, so Garrett’s creative archive isn’t released into wider public training systems. It has been developed using only Garrett’s own material, with no work by other comedians used to shape it, and it can only be switched on when a physical key is present at the venue. The team behind it is impressive: Garrett created and starred in the acclaimed Radio 4 sitcom Do Gooders, Dr JD Marsters holds a PhD in Electronic Engineering, and Steve McNeil’s WiFi Wars has been in residency at the Royal Institution for over a decade. The final results show in the Faraday Theatre will be followed by a panel discussion with professionals and commentators from the worlds of comedy and AI. It’s an evening that should leave you laughing and thinking in equal measure.
Tickets and info
Comedy vs AI: Garrett Millerick’s I, Robot
Royal Institution of Great Britain, 21 Albemarle Street, London W1S 4BS
28 November 2026, 7pm – The Library
27 February 2027, 7pm – The Library
29 May 2027, 7pm – The Library
17 July 2027, 7pm – The Results, The Faraday Theatre
Booking for each show opens 48 hours ahead of the previous show.