John Mulaney mocks San Francisco and Tech Bros during Dreamforce set

Last year, Seth Meyers toasted the attendees and this year Mulaney took over.

The comedian gave a 45-minute performance in which he mocked everything from the city of San Francisco to the conference attendees themselves, The San Francisco Standard reported.

The comedian questioned why a city that has “so miserably failed humanity” was chosen to host a conference focused on the future of AI, the outlet reported.

The city has struggled to recover from the pandemic. San Francisco’s office vacancy rate was among the highest of any major U.S. metropolitan center last year after a wave of tech sector downsizing.

Dreamforce pledged Thursday to keep the conference in San Francisco for at least three more years, a major victory for the city.

Mulaney’s teasing wasn’t limited to the city; he also saved plenty of material for the techies, poking fun at their complicated job titles, professional dress codes and replaceability, The Standard reported.

“Can AI sit there in a fleece vest?” Mulaney asked the crowd. “Can’t AI go to events and sit in a bar all day?”

The comedian continued to play the crowd throughout the set, suggesting that several people in the audience were at work on projects that were “just okay” but were spending their days making them sound “more amazing” than they are, The Standard reported.

“You’re a VP of customer success?” he asked someone, according to the outlet. “Congratulations on a role that didn’t exist five years ago!”

Mulaney also highlighted the vague language often heard in conversations between top engineers.

“The fact that there are 45,000 ‘pioneers’ here does not detract from the value of the title,” he said, according to the magazine.

Following his Dreamforce performance, Mulaney also performed a one-off show at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Theatre, where he provided some additional information about the city by the bay.

“San Francisco, you’ve always been a bad city, and you’re okay with that,” Mulaney said, according to SFGate.

The comedian has returned to the stage in recent years after entering rehab in 2020.