I love the fake clumsy-smooth handling of the cards, the beautiful, often rhymed patter, and the complete audience participation.
The hero: Alan Scott, the original Green Lantern The outpouring of love for Guardians of the Galaxy must particularly irk Warner Bros, who recently launched a human wiseass into a colourful space adventure with 2011's Green Lantern to almost complete audience indifference.
A guileless, naturally funny fellow, he narrates his plight into a small video camera, imagining himself at one point as both host and guest on a peppy daytime interview show, complete with audience response.
A new orchestra score, by Timothy Brock, was recorded during a showing of the film in Bologna, Italy, and comes complete with audience gasps and laughter, mostly at appropriate moments.
When the heroines finally step into the mansion together, the movie becomes a backstage farce, complete with audience applause and curtain calls.
The broadcaster and gadget enthusiast has recorded boos, complete with audience participation, while hosting TV show QI and at the recording of the new series of the Radio 4 programme I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.
If TV cannot offer advertisers the complete 'engaged audience' it once could then targeting the younger generation - always the most profitable for brands – across a range of devices will be the next step.
"The Trial," a new film by the Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa, depicts it as a spectacle, complete with audience reactions, set in a stunning marble hall with grand crystal chandeliers.
This audio vérité recording, complete with audience noise and the odd fluffed mix, explains why: there's a primal, instinctual energy in the way he frantically cuts between records, allowing barely any track to last more than two minutes, utterly at odds with techno's austere, cerebral reputation.
The general software update also ships a new and improved version of Shield's Dabbler software, which now includes layers as well as live broadcast of your drawing sessions to Twitch, which is an interesting use case that will allow artists to livedraw their creations complete with audience feedback.
It is open to interpretation, and it is often not complete until audience members weigh in with their own thoughts.
