[El Blanco]

Originally Posted by sspadowsky

I'll bet that either their shit was never stolen, or never good enough that anyone would want to steal it.

I was refering to stage presence and delivery being more important than actual lines.

Fuck 'em. Every single one of the comics I currently hang out with thinks that joke thieves are hack pieces of shit. And they're right.

I didn't say joke stealing was cool. It is wqrong and the people that do it should be called out.

However, I think the accusation is thrown around way too easy. That video Joe Rogan made a while back shows Mencia and a few comedians telling similar jokes. But they were easy jokes. Its entirely possible for two people to seperatly come up with a shitty joke.

Let's say you're a blues artist, and you've written all these great tunes, and people have heard of them, but maybe don't know who you are, because you picked the wrong guy to manage you. Then you walk into some bar and see four thieving British fucks playing your music as if it were their own, and getting cheered, and getting paid insane money, and the crowd thinks they're the geniuses who came up with it. You'd be pretty pissed, wouldn't you?

At them? Sure. If they knowingly stole my work. But then, again, I should get pissed at the retard that didn't copyright it to begin with.

Saw it, loved it, bought it.

So, you see how a bunch of different comedians took the same joke and did it themselves, right?

It's not hard to take what they say at face value at all.

It can be when they are crying about how wronged they were.

They're far more interesting than most people you'll run across on a daily basis.

At first.

It's shallow and stupid to write off something they say just because they make jokes for a living. Besides, when faced with a choice of whom to hang out with, gimme the fucked-up people every time. They're a lot more fun than "normals."

Except when they are crying drama queens that always have to hog the attention.