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For example, the astounding success of your show will eventually give some other TV pioneers an idea for a new kind of variety program,
2Called “talk shows,”
3Which will be completely different from your show because they will all feature a good-looking and witty host,
4Who will actually talk to his guests before they perform,
5So that the people in the TV audience can get to know the stars they have always had to admire from afar.
6In fact, there will one day be TV stars who are famous and admired for being on so many talk shows,
7And who will never actually perform at all,
8Which will give still more TV producers another completely new idea,
9Namely, putting on talk shows where the guests are not performers of any kind,
10But real people,
11aJust like the ones everybody lives next to in the suburbs,
12bExcept that they will have all kinds of problems,
13cAnd tell everybody in the TV audience about them,
14Which is why they won’t use a prerecorded laugh track of any kind,
15Because everyone will know exactly when to laugh,
16At first.
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