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If you ever need to trick an Alexa into saying the word « chestnuts », be warned — it turns out it’s far harder than it looks.

In the clip above, fresh from roasting each other for an entire interview, Steve Martin and Martin Short play « Hey Robot » with Jimmy Fallon — a game that involves trying to get an Alexa to say a specific word, without using that word yourself.

Things start off easily enough with « mistletoe », then quickly descend into glorious chaos.