Edinburgh Fringe 2026
Ted Hill: Powerpoindexter
Ted Hill
Genre: Comedy
Venue: Assembly George Square Gardens Studio 5
Festival: Edinburgh Fringe
Low Down
Chaotic, clever and gloriously weird, Powerpoindexter sees Ted Hill turn the audience into his own personal focus group to discover exactly how strange is too strange. Combining PowerPoint, playful audience interaction and an increasingly confident stage presence.
Review
Ted Hill: Powerpoindexter is playing at the Assembly Rooms Studio 5 throughout the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The seventh-placed Britain’s Got Talent finalist challenges perceptions of autism and takes to the fringe stage again with a new and improved comedy PowerPoint to test just how weird he can be when it comes to simply being himself.
Hill kicks off as he means to go on, with a chaotic but endearing energy that comes with disclosing as early as possible that yes, he is autistic and, as part of that superpower, he is compelled to present us with a comedic PowerPoint that has the potential to brighten our day and/or confuse or upset us. We are provided with ‘too weird’ and ‘not weird enough’ signs to raise accordingly. We become part of his focus group. He wants to work out just how far he can push the envelope before an audience thinks he has been swallowed down an ASD rabbit hole and collectively feels the need to let him know by raising the ‘too weird’ sign. It’s clear, it’s measurable. Perfect for a man with autism.
Having watched Ted Hill perform in his debut year (where he also did very well), it was a delight to see how far he has come in terms of his ability to hold the room. Where before it felt like watching a man constantly on the edge of a breakdown, now, presumably due in part to the fear-busting experience of performing in front of thousands on his way to the Britain’s Got Talent final, he seems much more at ease on stage. He still has his hilarious pre-programmed responses and ‘inner-critic’ comedy inserts to contextualise why he’s gone off on a tangent or riffed on a moment that perhaps didn’t quite work or land. However, these now feel like a deliberate part of the show rather than a genuine back-up to his self-consciousness.
Barring a brief discussion of his worries about the future of Britain’s voles and his run to the BGT final, the meatier part of Hill’s set focuses on what it might be like if he were not a PowerPoint comedian but rather a comedian of another genre. He then tries out a number of these comedic styles on us: stand-up, character comedy, roast comedy, etc. Each new attempt is received with much applause and laughter.
Ted Hill: Powerpoindexter feels like a comedian who has fully landed and one who could comfortably command a larger performance space. He’s a bit swearier than his primetime TV persona, which augments the show well, and willing to be much, much weirder, presumably emboldened by the clear results given by us, his focus group, who rarely deliver a ‘too weird’ verdict across the whole hour. Really different, seriously funny and a massive boost to perceptions of what autistic performers can bring to the stage.
