It's good to know the I, Anonymous show will once again be reading people's rants out loud on stage so that people who can't read for themselves will get some yucks this season. At least it means the comics will have to read through a few dozen—hundred?—rants to get their material for the evening.
I appreciate humor, but I'm fairly sure that its origins are about the same as the origins of storytelling—our ancestors sitting around the fire wanting to hear some amazing or funny stuff. The funny stuff may have been about the tribe's lowliest members, but I kind of doubt it. To judge from the comedies of the Greeks, humor has been from the oldest times a way to correct the behavior of the powerful, the arrogant, and the famous. In other words, humor tries to give the megaphone (or talking stick) to those who have it the least—ordinary people. I would love it if the I, Anonymous show would try something new. Instead of reading the yes, sometimes clueless and yes, sometimes insane rants found here, they could read verbatim the speeches of chambers of commerce, or debates by members of Congress or some of our president's latest screeds.
Then they would be more in the grand tradition of pointing UP and satirizing the powerful, not pointing DOWN and mocking those whose only megaphone is an anonymous column.