Comedian and Twitch streamer Brian 'Limmy' Limond meets his match...

One of 21st Century comedy's great polymaths, Limmy found his footing in Flash animation and satirical websites before becoming a cult sensation with his BBC Scotland sketch series, Limmy's Show (2009-2013), which introduced a wider audience to his unique comic outlook: equal parts surreal, subversive, observational and mundane.

Feverishly creative and unwilling to be pinned down by the mainstream, Limmy bounced between old and new media as his profile grew, with his output eventually encompassing podcasts, books, and prolific posts on YouTube, Twitter and Vine. Despite commanding a considerable following, he ultimately decided to leave the grind of TV production behind, and found an unlikely home on the streaming platform Twitch.

With no commissioners to please, streaming is a perfect canvas for personalities as idiosyncratic and naturally funny as Limmy. The medium allows him to engage directly with his community of 500,000 viewers and follow whatever bizarre whims he fancies during each daily broadcast.

Twitch is primarily a platform for watching streamers play video games, but at any point across Limmy's many hours of content per week, he is just as likely to be slogging through the likes of Death Stranding and Dark Souls as forensically rewatching 1990s light entertainment television programmes, or simply responding to chat messages from his audience. That is the case in this clip, which subsequently went viral to the tune of 13 million views, in which he tackles a Scottish tongue-twister.

In this clip from his Twitch livestream, Scottish comedian and author Brian 'Limmy' Limond struggles with the challenge of saying 'purple burglar alarm' after a commenter suggests that some Scots can't pronounce this sentence.