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We Forced a Bot to Write This Show

5: Porn, Batman, and Downing Street.

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for years

We forced Artificial Intelligence to digest massive amounts of human media and then write its own versions. Everything from The One Show, Game of Thrones, Friends, Songs of Praise and more via movies, fables, adverts, Shakespeare, poetry and, er, gardening tips (and much much more) are all forever ruined by technology.

We take the scripts, push them word-for-word into the mouths of actors, and the result is absurdly, joyously - and then absurdly again - hilarious.

This is the comedy that conclusively proves that AI is an absolute idiot.

Based on materials by Keaton Patti.

Forcing A Bot To Write This Show are:
Jon Holmes
Sarah Dempster
Gareth Ceredig

Performed by:
Isy Suttie
James Lance
Lauren Douglin
Esmonde Cole
and
Craig Parkinson as The Narrator
Olivia Williams as The Storyteller

Original Music by Jake Yapp. Lyrics: Holmes / Ceredig / Patti

Produced and Directed by Jon Holmes

Technical Wizardry: Tony Churnside
Production Co-ordinator: Laura Grimshaw

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