you re back, we re back, everybody s back, and this august, so was the edinburgh festival, the world famous celebration of the arts that takes over the city the whole month. it s a melting pot of theatre, music, dance and opera, and on the side, as its name suggests, is the edinburgh fringe. she s like, please never speak to me again . laughter filled with experimental performers, innovative shows and my favourite comedy. one of the beautiful things about the fringe is that it takes over loads of venues in the city, including this one the university of edinburgh s old medical school. and before we get stuck in to the comedy, we are going to talk about medicine specifically medical waiting times. now, if you re waiting for surgery, it can feel like an eternity and we all know that waiting times are longer than anyone would want. but one nhs trust in england is trialling an artificial intelligence that might be able to manage waiting lists better and, ultimately, bring
you re back, we re back, everybody s back, and this august, so was the edinburgh festival, the world famous celebration of the arts that takes over the city the whole month. it s a melting pot of theatre, music, dance and opera, and on the side, as its name suggests, is the edinburgh fringe. she s like, please never speak to me again . laughter filled with experimental performers, innovative shows and my favourite comedy. one of the beautiful things about the fringe is that it takes over loads of venues in the city, including this one the university of edinburgh s old medical school. and before we get stuck in to the comedy, we are going to talk about medicine specifically medical waiting times. now, if you re waiting for surgery, it can feel like an eternity and we all know that waiting times are longer than anyone would want. but one nhs trust in england is trialling an artificial intelligence that might be able to manage waiting lists better and, ultimately, bring
field in the sense that if you have ten followers, you re much more likely to get a viral hit than on other platforms. because on instagram, if you had ten followers, no one would see your videos. on tiktok, there s always a chance that it might go viral, that s the difference. so, you ve come from very highly produced videos where you can control exactly what they look like because you re editing them to, you know, to fractions of a second. now, you are performing live, one take wonder, in front of an audience. those just seem so different. how have you found that difference? there s so much scope for error. yeah. there is. and you can t. and there s so much stuff that s not in our control, you know? yeah. on tiktok, it is actually all in our control. with the live show, it s alive, you know? it s there for the hour and it s a living, changing organism. yeah, which is really exciting. good luck with the show. thank you so much for your time. it s been brilliant. oh, thank you, spencer
would hold me back and, you know, i didn t want to have a pump because i thought, you know, if i was dancing, it would get in the way, or casting directors would think i would be a hassle and they wouldn t want to hire me and blah, blah, blah. whereas now, it s like, i m i feel incredibly unapologetic about the fact that bipolar and diabetes is part of the deal. you know, that s it informs our comedy, it informs the way we are as people, it informs our creativity. # call me crazy. # say i m lazy. tiktok famously has a very effective algorithm, putting the right content in front of the right eyes and helping budding performers to find their audiences in record time. it s kind of levelled the playing field in the sense that if you have ten followers, you re much more likely to get a viral hit than on other platforms. because on instagram, if you had ten followers, no one would see your videos. on tiktok, there s always a chance that it might go viral, that s the difference. so, you v