Birthday roast
Funny birthday video: roast them on the mic
Add a photo of each of you and type the joke your friends always tell. It becomes a short verse, performed on stage by the birthday person while you hype beside them.
- The joke you type is the verse
- 6 credits for 12 s at 480p
- Vertical MP4, no watermark
The Gold Lounge look
Marble, brass and velvet: your photos step onto this stage. Switch it in the editor any time.
Concept image made with AI to show the idea; not a customer video.
The short answer
Funny birthday videos with their actual face
Updated October 24, 2026
A funny birthday video on RapVideo is a 12-second clip where the birthday person raps a playful roast written from a joke you type, while you hype them beside them. Add a photo of each of you, enter the detail everyone teases them about in up to 120 characters, and the AI writes a clean, original verse and renders both faces on stage. It costs 6 credits at 480p or 10 at 720p and downloads as a vertical MP4 with no watermark.
A typical funny birthday video is a dancing cartoon with a name pasted on top. This one uses the birthday person's real face: they stand on stage and rap a roast built from your joke, with you as hype man next to them. The model renders a new clip from the photos, so it is not a face swap and nobody is cut and pasted.
The tone is teasing, not mean. Tease the habit, not the person: the verse is written clean, and a filter refuses sexual or hateful topics before any credits are charged. If the joke would not make the birthday person laugh at the party, leave it out.
The default stage is the Gold Lounge, with marble, brass and velvet, which makes a goofy roast look like a black-tie performance. For a sweeter message, make a birthday rap song, or go at each other with the AI rap battle generator.
Set up here: Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite (xAI), 480p, 12 seconds, 6 credits. Read the full guide
How it works
Make it in 3 steps
- 1
Add a photo of each of you
A clear photo of the birthday person and one of you, one face each, or one photo of both. The left person raps; the right one hypes.
RapVideo editor · Your two performers · View full screenshot - 2
Write the joke
Up to 120 characters: a name and the detail everyone teases them about, like "Nate still sends voice notes longer than podcasts".
RapVideo editor · Stage and sound · View full screenshot - 3
Render and drop it in the chat
Wait about 2 to 5 minutes, download the MP4 and post it in the group chat before they wake up.
RapVideo editor · Rap about… · View full screenshot
Why make it here
What makes the roast work
Real face, real reaction
Seeing the birthday person deliver the joke on stage is funnier than any template.
You hype them
The partner on the right nods, points and dances while the lead raps, like a real hype man.
Your joke, your language
The AI rhymes in whatever language you type the joke in.
Safe to post
Lyrics are asked for clean and risky topics are refused before you pay.
Ideas
Birthday jokes that always land
- A friend who has been "five minutes away" since 2019
- Dad's dad jokes, finally with a beat
- The birthday person who still can't parallel park
- A coworker who microwaves fish
- The sibling who always claims the last slice
- A friend's 40th: "wise" but still googling everything
Ask before you put anyone in a video, and leave public figures out of it.
Watch
Funny Birthday Video videos on YouTube
Videos by creators and other tools, each credited and linked to the original on YouTube. Nothing loads from YouTube until you press play.
My dog ruined my birthday!
AGuyAndAGolden on YouTubeFunny Happy Birthday Song Monkeys sing Happy Birthday To You
Raf De Graeve on YouTubeHappy Birthday!!! - Funny Birthday Songs (Cute Puppy Edition)
FunnyBirthdaySongs on YouTubeGuides
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Your turn
Roast them properly
Add two photos, type the joke and press create. Their funny birthday video is a few minutes away.