We open on a lady brushing her teeth. She has just asked Alexa for today’s weather. To her dismay Alexa coughs mid-sentence, then goes silent. At Amazon HQ we see a group of employees reassuring CEO, Jeff Bezos, that although Alexa has lost her voice they have replacements lined up. We then see these replacements trying, and failing, to do Alexa’s job. Gordon Ramsay berates a man asking for a grilled cheese recipe. Cardi B. is bemused by a boy doing homework, for wanting to know how far it is to Mars. Rebel Wilson tries to seduce a dinner party host. Cardi B. refuses to play country music and Anthony Hopkins responds, chillingly, to a girl who wants to call her boyfriend. As we pull back from Anthony, who is feeding peacocks in his garden, we hear Alexa’s voice return. She says ‘Thanks guys, but I’ll take it from here’.

Alexa is Amazon’s voice assistant who can perform a variety of ‘skills’- she can tell you the weather, play music, place phone calls and answer knowledge based questions. She is available in a variety of Amazon devices and is controlled by your voice.

Gordon Ramsay is a British chef who is well known in America for starring in Hell’s Kitchen. He’s famed for his expletive laden rants. Cardi B is a New York raised rapper. Her debut single ‘Bodak Yellow’, released 7 months before Super Bowl 2018, reached number 1 in the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Cardi has 22.1 million followers on Instagram. Rebel Wilson is an Australian actress, writer and producer best known for starring in the Pitch Perfect films. Anthony Hopkins is an Academy Award winning Welsh actor famed for his portrayal of Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs, and Robert Ford in Westworld.