Comedian Yianni Agisilaou Brings His New Show To The Edinburgh Fringe

Are you stuck to your smartphone? Fearful that Facebook is listening to your every word? Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.

Technology is often new. But it's nothing new. Your clothes were new technology once. So was a chair. But is technology moving faster than ever before? And what does it mean for who we are as human beings?

In 2018 alone: a robot did a backflip, a person was run over by a car without a driver, a hyper realistic video of Scarlett Johansson having sex with someone made its way around the internet (Scarlett Johansson was not in the video), people had sex with robots, we learned that Trump may have been elected because 30,000 Americans took a personality test and people have legitimately started to discuss what we might do with half of the world's population if none of them have jobs in 20 years time. Oh, and a computer rang a hair salon and, completely fooling the human receptionist, booked an appointment.

As seen on Australia's ABC Comedy Next Gen, award-winning comedian Yianni Agisilaou's new show, I, Human takes a light-hearted snapshot of just where we're at as a species. Yianni's masterful blending of social commentary and witty comedy provides audiences with a hilarious hour as they are encouraged to swap digital interaction for human communication.

A keenly observed but playful hour of analogue, human-written jokes on how humans and technology are changing each other. 'I, Human' discusses futures, possible and desirable, and what our increasingly malleable and digital world teaches us about what it is to be human.

His previous shows have examined topics as varied as gender equality, quantum physics, how and when jokes become offensive; his experience being diagnosed as mildly autistic at the age of 33.3 (recurring), and more.

Photographer Credit: Richard Grebby

Get tickets to see Yianni perform his new show, 'I, Human' at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/yianni-agisilaou-i-human

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