Patton Oswalt tells HBO’s VICE about joke thievery
by 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 …
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On Conan, Bob Newhart remembers meeting Don Rickles, and the joke thief who changed Newhart’s career
On Monday night’s Conan, Bob Newhart reminisced about his dearly departed friend, Don Rickles — they and their wives were fast friends for five decades. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The growing pains of cracking down on Twitter joke thieves
The only sure things are death, taxes and schmucks will try to profit by stealing your jokes. At least my online friends at Death and …
Unapologetic joke thief claims it took months before anyone had a problem with him stealing from the late Patrice O’Neal
Kain Carter has 619,615 subscribers to his YouTube channel, which he titled “hotdamnirock.” For much of the past year, however, what Carter was rocking in …
Read Patton Oswalt’s “Closed Letter to Myself About Thievery, Heckling and Rape Jokes”
Patton Oswalt wrote “a closed letter” to himself yesterday on the Internet, which means we all can read it, hopefully identify with at least part …