15 Comedians Who (Allegedly) Stole Jokes
Your favorite stand-up bit has just been human centiped-ed, over and over, since the first dinosaur farted.
Think no one cared when vaudeville comics recycled jokes? “That’s so friggin’ wrong,” Patton Oswalt told Time. “Vaudeville, as far as comedy’s concerned, was like gangsta hip-hop. W.C. Fields would wait outside the stage doors for guys who would do his act and beat the living s**t out of them.” Here, then, is a list of comics who should maybe watch their backs.
