Conan O’Brien on why he settled lawsuit by man who claimed his TBS writers stole jokes from Twitter
by The lawsuit by a San Diego man claiming Conan O’Brien’s TBS late-night show stole jokes from his Twitter for Conan’s monologue has settled out of …
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Russell Peters inserts himself back into feud over joke theft
Russell Peters couldn’t help himself last month while appearing as a guest on Sway in the Morning on SiriusXM satellite radio. As soon as Sway …
Patton Oswalt tells HBO’s VICE about joke thievery
In case you missed it, HBO’s VICE News recently took a look at joke theft through the prism of an ongoing lawsuit by a Twitter …
New Zealand food company Aunt Betty’s apologizes for stealing Mitch Hedberg rice joke
Over the weekend, comedians caught a New Zealand food company in the act of pilfering a joke from the late Mitch Hedberg about race, and …
Amy Schumer defends her comedy credibility: “On my life, I have never and would never steal a joke”
Amy Schumer knows that haters will hate and there’s not much she can do to stop that. Just please don’t call her a joke thief. …
Down the rabbit-hole of Internet aggregation: The Fat Jewish now openly taking from other thieves
Comedy Central may have gotten out of the “Fat Jew” business before the masses of protesting comedians got their way…but Josh Ostrovsky’s own countermeasure reveals …
Comedians rally to bring infamous joke thief Josh Ostrovsky to comedy justice
Let’s not bury the lede before we bury the joke thief. Comedy Central tells The Comic’s Comic today that the cable network never OK’d a …
Twitter finally suspends profiteering joke imposters
This just in! Twitter has ramped up its policing of joke thieves, plagiarists and imposters of famous funny folks. A long-running Chris Rock imposter’s account …
This SNL sketch has 22 seconds in common with This Hour Has 22 Minutes sketch #DrawMuhammad
When Saturday Night Live presented a Win, Lose or Draw game show spoof that perplexed a contestant with the dilemma of drawing the Islamic prophet …
SNL’s “Proud Mary” sketch bruises pride of The Groundling’s similar Tina Turner tribute
One sketch had them singing for their supper in the Pechanga Resort & Casino in Temecula, Calif. The other stuck them on a riverboat in …