Comedic Timing & Audience Laughter Simulator

Punchline Pause 0.9s

Delivery Energy 70%

Joke Type

Set Status

Last Laugh—

Crowd Energy

50%

Jokes Told

Time Left

1:30

Avg Score

—

How it works

Comic timing is modeled as a Gaussian response curve over the setup→punchline pause p, peaking at an optimal gap μ ≈ 0.9s (long enough to build anticipation, short enough not to lose it):

Timing(p) = exp(-(p-μ)² / (2σ²)),  μ=0.9s, σ=0.45s

Each joke's laugh strength L combines four independent factors, each in [0,1]:

L = Energy × Timing(p) × Novelty(type) × Heckle
Energy  = delivery-energy slider / 100
Novelty = exp(-0.35 × recent uses of this joke type)   (habituation)
Heckle  = 0.4 while a heckler is active, else 1

Novelty models audience habituation: repeating the same joke type back-to-back blunts the reaction (a real comedian varies material for this reason), and the fatigue slowly decays between jokes as the crowd "resets". Each of the 96 audience instances then samples its own response around L with individual sensitivity noise and animates independently — bounce height and color (gray → gold → green) both track that instance's personal laugh strength, and a short heckler event visibly drags the whole crowd's energy down before it recovers.

Punchline Pause — the setup-to-punchline gap; the closer to ~0.9s, the stronger the timing factor.
Delivery Energy — overall stage energy multiplier.
Joke Type — switching types resets that type's fatigue; repeating one type drains its novelty.
Heckler! — injects a disruption that temporarily suppresses laughter across the room.

Laughing hard Chuckling Stone-faced

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