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Ted Hill: Tries And Fails To Fix Climate Change comedy review – Very modern tech-based set

Silly and likeable show with an AI sidekick which raises issues of hypocrisy from all sides of the eco debate

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Ted Hill: Tries And Fails To Fix Climate Change comedy review – Very modern tech-based set

Ted Hill wants to save the world. But is he really the right man for the job being a lazy, vain comic? Or at least those are the qualities he chooses to project to his audience; Hill freely admits that he just wants to be thrust into the upper echelon of admired history-makers rather than get involved with anything that might be of help anyone but himself.

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Hill’s show is very up-to-date for the LEZ-zone era, with Stuart The Artificial Intelligence offering a constant commentary in the form of various electronic interruptions. Stuart sees, as the audience does, that Hill’s ambitions offer a very narrow focus on activities which might benefit himself. That contrary attitude adds up to a happy centre for a silly, likeable show which exposes hypocrisy by cravenly doffing its cap to the energy companies which are so quick to monetise green issues.

Hill goes for, and gets, plenty of laughs at his own expense; some of the arguments with Stuart are a little forced and overplayed, but in general our human host sticks to his task and delivers a ripe subject for a multi-media comedy show in 2023.

Ted Hill: Tries And Fails To Fix Climate Change, Assembly George Square, until 27 August, 2.50pm.

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