Edinburgh Fringe - Michael Brunström: William Tell vs the Algorithm ★★★☆☆

The terror of AI has come to comedy. There are a dozen shows this year about the threat that technology poses to the way we live, laugh, and love. In this case, AI stands for Austrian Imperialism and the fight is for Switzerland's independence. Well, sort of. It gets a bit lost in an endless stream of rambly diversions. There's a fine line between surrealist comedy and utter nonsense. If you like seeing a man getting the audience to sing to a magical (albeit potentially traitorous) hat, attempting to pull up his trousers without his hands, and doing cuckoo impressions - this'll satisfy those cravings. It does produce a steady stream of chuckles but suffers by being presented in an airless yurt. The highlight for me was the confession that the comedian has "a rare form of synaesthesia which allows me to literally see colours!"