Every now and then on social media, a particular standup comedian goes viral overnight with one of their videos and this time it’s Morgan Jay whose autotune standup comedy clips are spreading like wildfire. As seen from many of his videos, it seems like the comedian’s signature style involves using the audio processing tool while interacting with audience members. Let’s take a look at who Morgan Jay is and what makes the viral autotune standup comedy videos click.
Morgan Jay’s autotune crowd work videos
If you aren’t familiar with Morgan Jay’s standup comedy clips on the internet, here’s how they go. Just like other comedians, the LA-based performer does ‘crowd work’ where he chooses an audience member from the crowd and decides to interact with them organically and create jokes out of thin air.
The difference here is that Morgan Jay uses autotune while doing this. For the uninitiated, the audio processing tool allows regular-seeming sounds to appear like music by alternating the pitch. Mainstream musicians often use this to mask bad singing or even experiment with new sounds like rapper Travis Scott does.
What makes the clips so popular?
Coming back to the standup comedian, he indulges in back-and-forth conversation with his audience members sometimes asking awkward questions. For instance, in a popular clip, Jay asks a young man named Ethan about his love life in the presence of a female companion, making things hilariously weird.
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While the interaction continues in the crowd, Jay’s audio team effectively incorporates the autotuned voices with some impressive music in the background. The end result is a conversational song that turns out to be a complete laugh riot, leaving audiences in splits. He even turns mundane work-related conversations into comedy gold.
All details about the standup comedian
With roots in Brazil and Italy, Morgan Jay is an American comedy performer with over a decade of experience. He has worked in different capacities as a writer and performer with media outlets like NBC, Comedy Central, MTV and ViacomCBS.
big morgan jay fan i need to see him so bad 😭
— Barry-Suzanne (@imbarrysuzanne) December 1, 2023
Morgan Jay really is the best comedian ever
— ⬡ Ⴟ 🏴 (@feverdreams66) December 1, 2023
Thanks to his viral autotune standup comedy clips, Jay enjoys an impressive digital audience with over 1.5 million followers on TikTok and 265k followers on Instagram. The award-winning performer graduated from the prestigious Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.
that morgan jay autotune set is driving me crazy
— joana (@coconmora) December 1, 2023
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— 𐙚 ༘❀⋆ (@durfitymou) December 1, 2023
Morgan Jay’s 2024 comedy tour starts on December 31 in LA and concludes on April 23 in Dublin, Ireland. In the process, he will be touring across different locations such as Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia in the US as well as Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin and London internationally among other cities. You can find more details here.
