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Originally Posted by fotze
ROgan explains it well on his site:
For someone who is not a comic, and doesn't understand what the big deal is about comics stealing jokes, please let me try to explain it to you.
It's hard to come up with material. It takes a lot of work, a lot of rewriting, sometimes an approach bombs and you have to rethink it, and often it's a long process until you get to a finished product.
Now, occasionally a joke will come to you in full form, but for the most part it's just an idea that can become a great bit with some work.
Now, when you work hard on a bit and polish and craft it, and then someone just disrespects the whole process, steps in, steals it and performs it as his own, that's a pretty intense creative violation.
I've been in the back of a club while a guy was onstage doing one of my bits and believe me that's a ****ty ****ing feeling. It's like watching your girlfriend getting ****ed onstage by a liar while the whole audience cheers.
What's even worse, is if you're a struggling comic, and the guy stealing your **** has his own show on comedy central.
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He definitely has a point, but this whole "ownage" thing. The way they both talk, calling each other bitches and mfers, it just seems so childish, trying to sound so hard and "street" and all, waving their hands and acting tough.
They are a couple comedians bickering about a joke, not bloods and crips feuding over a streetcorner.