The United States of Comedy: 2035 (2012)

&gt; By 2022 the last vestiges of reality dissolve. The Onion becomes the newspaper of record, only to be supplanted by an “Onion” version of The Onion, which makes the original Onion look “totally lame.”<p>Soothsayer!

<i>New late-night talk shows appear so rapidly that the fight for guests turns violent.</i><p>This was written a few years after Conan had his bad experience with the Tonight Show. If you saw his live show around 2010, you&#x27;ll know how he grew jaded, at least with the business end of things.

I always wondered what stew of genetics and upbringing makes someone extremely funny. Its actually a pretty rare trait for someone to be &#x27;professional quality&#x27; funny as evidenced by going to a few open mic nights.<p>I think a lot of people want to be funny and the hustle is admirable, but I wonder if professional comedy is an inherent talent not something you can just read a book about.<p>Still you don&#x27;t know if you don&#x27;t try.

What is the author even trying to say? I just get random rambling. Could as well have been written by a Markov generator.