A full-length black comedy with genuine social commentary on its mind is a rare enterprise -- too rare -- and throughout "Bright Ideas" I found myself thinking of Jules Feiffer's "Little Murders," a play from another era that took contemporary cultural madness to illogical extremes.
Write up a list of things you want to include on your show: music, jokes, interviews, advertisements, fake or genuine news commentary, etc. Find a craft project.
The game alternates between sophomoric commentary and genuine hilarity, and the writing is at its most clever when that fourth wall is being breached.
Extant manuscripts also contain and attribute to Grosseteste a paraphrase of the Prior Analytics, which may well be genuine, as well as a commentary on the Sophistici Elenchi and another commentary on the Physics, both of which appear to be inauthentic.
Cheesy comparisons aside, when I look at these debates, I see an important drive towards open access, open data, open commentary and a genuine desire to improve the discipline with new methods and approaches.
The historian James Turner identifies this event as an example of a new carnivalisation of sexuality in Restoration England, where genuine political attack, satire, street commentary and bawdy theatre came together.
The reader should keep in mind that the study of Aristotle in the form of the commentary did not mean the cessation of genuine philosophical thought.
There was also significant commentary on Slashdot: "If there was a genuine shortage [in STEM], you'd see sharp increases in salary levels.
Hills is a genuine Paralympics enthusiast, while Brooker started his career in Paralympics commentary.
Memorably described by Andrew Marr as a "genuine political nutter", Boulton retorted that he had pioneered the "character political commentary" and that Marr "would not exist" without him.
