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- owingsro, on 10/12/2007, -26/+88All the Louie CK jokes were all on his 2001 HBO special. Four years later in 2005 they show up on Dane Cooks album. What a little bitch.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+36all of a sudden people are noticing how often comics rip each other off. nothing new.
- mraustin1337, on 10/12/2007, -20/+50Okay so they had jokes that are alike but they are too general to say they they are stolen in my opinion.
Also many artists would say they are inspired by other artists. The Mencia jokes were clearly stolen with very little alteration from multiple comedians while this is just a couple jokes that are somewhat similar. I'm not a huge fan of Dane Cook but I am going to say I don't buy this as stolen material.
Though I have to say I think Dane Cook pulls them off better. - schwallman, on 10/12/2007, -13/+32this morning i was in my office minding my own business. So i let one rip. i mean it stucnk bad. anyway after lunch i went in to an office mates room, it smelled like he had just farted. i was like noooooooooooo, you cant fart in your office b/c i farted in mine this morning. I cant believe he was trying to steal farting in your office while alone from me. Monday im talking to my lawyer.
- ngmcs8203, on 10/12/2007, -9/+26@infamous: the theory is called parallel evolution' -- both performers devised the same bit independently of each other.
There is also what is called "squaters rights" like "dibs" - "In comedy, there is such a thing as squatter's rights," says Mark Breslin, owner and president of Yuk Yuk's. "If one comic gets there first, the bit is theirs. It doesn't matter if you thought of the joke completely on your own, if you know another guy is already doing the bit, you don't do it."
@Nodren - I've heard dates given by Jimmy Norton on O&A and Louis CK was doing these jokes on TV Specials long before Dane cook did them. I remember the getting hit by a car one specifically talked about. (As owingsro pointed out below: "All the Louie CK jokes were all on his 2001 HBO special. Four years later in 2005 they show up on Dane Cooks album.") - Moosebern, on 10/12/2007, -5/+20When you really look at the jokes, it's commonplace material. Honestly, who hasn't thought of a situation like the bike/car/person scenario. The punch lines were different, the context different. I know that they're similar, but that doesn't necessarily make it plagiarism. Who hasn't thought about naming their kids weird names? Who hasn't had an itchy *****. All these things are funny and merit jokes, unfortunately we'd all probably come up with something quite similar.
- jonconnelly, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16Yep Louis CK > Dane Cook.
Was really disappoined that they cancelled Lucky Louie, was a terrific show :( - Chmura, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16dane cook madtv parody
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBcAiCiKYtk - craftyshrew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Whoa with the Canadian comments, don't make me show you the list of Canadian Comics you effer's have taken from us. (see above for where Dane Cook is from)
- tristan55555, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Uhh Dane Cook is American, born in Boston.
- aakins, on 10/12/2007, -6/+16"Don't be a whiny bitch!"
- Ned - mt066, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Yeah this is pretty generic stuff. If it's the worst they can gather up, I'm not that impressed. I think all the stuff he got big on was that kool-aid guy routine and such. Plus, I remember that hit-by-a-car routine went on for a while too. So the only thing similar was that "What should I yell" line.
- craftyshrew, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Here's the list anyway...ignore Howie Mandel. http://particle.physics.ucdavis.edu/terning/Canadians/comedians.html
- httpgeek, on 10/12/2007, -13/+20whats the saying "a good artist borrows a great artist steals"? whatever...
- zephc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Will 2007 be the year of the Great Stand-up Shake-down?
- Nodren, on 10/12/2007, -34/+40i'm surprised noone has yet raise the all important question... are we sure louie CK didnt rip this off from dane cook? there really wasnt any dates for this stuff, i dont even know who louie ck is... was he around before dane cook or something?
- Wetzilla, on 10/12/2007, -6/+11He's not Canadian, he was born and raised in Massachusetts. And last time I checked, that wasn't in Canada.
And I would say if anything he's funny because of his delivery. His jokes aren't particularly funny, it's just the way he tells them. Anyone else trying to do his material would just sound stupid. And if he did steal this joke, it was a lot funnier when he said it than Louie CK. - IanPatterson, on 10/12/2007, -20/+25Dane cook isnt funny, this is what matters
- dan2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I love all the "videos" on Youtube that consist of nothing but one frame of text, and then audio overlayed. It's seriously ***** pathetic. Why can't this morons just upload an mp3 of the audio someplace instead of creating a "video" for it?
- vhold, on 10/12/2007, -6/+10Isn't coming out with a "Steals material" video so soon after Joe Rogan's "Steals material" video kind of like stealing material? Sort of?
- DyDx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5How about Denis Leary stealing Bill Hicks' act in 1993? http://www.afterophelia.com/denisleary.htm
Far more appalling than the Cook/CK and Mencia stuff. Hicks and Leary were friends and Leary just about copied his act. They were not friends after this, and then Hicks died of pancreatic cancer.
@mandarin: I'm loving the Sarah Silverman Program because it's so absurd and ridiculous. Good stuff. - ngmcs8203, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6It is understood in the world of comedy, however, that whoever performs it first gets to claim it as their own. Dane Cook had been seen hanging around when CK was performing these jokes. So he obviously had heard them before. He wasn't sitting around in 2004, writing and forming new jokes. He was remembering jokes he had seen performed before and tweaking them so they wouldn't sound EXACTLY the same.
- SpeedoBurrito, on 10/12/2007, -15/+19This isn't anything new. How long ago did this come out?
Not saying it's right, but Dane is still funnier. Just something in the delivery... - hobbers, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7I don't really see it. The last joke about the itchy ***** is about the closest to something being "stolen". The first two jokes are similar, but I could see different people coming up with both of them. And if these 3 jokes are all someone could come up with scanning through these two guy's material ... eh
- cheeseron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Isn't that how open source works?
- praisethelard, on 06/06/2008, -1/+4What's going on with that show?! You get to look at Sarah Silverman! That's what's going on in that show!
- dnite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Completely agree. I hate the 'never tells a joke' argument! It's a lot of people attacking someone who's popular because he's popular. I don't really care if he's telling a joke in an old fashion dictionary sense, he says something, I laugh, there for it must have been funny! End of story! Why do we need to over analyze a man's comedic delivery?
- mt066, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Oh boy we're on the comedian warpath now. Who's next?
- pardonmedoug, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5It IS a nice feeling to see your work used fruitfully, but you should get paid for that.
- mtrip, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Steve Martin did this joke twenty years ago. http://www.dead-frog.com/archives/2007/01/steal_this_joke_louis_ck_dane_cook_steve_martin.php So I guess they both stole from Steve. Or maybe it's just a joke that naturally occurs to people.
- reddevil3, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Funny...the only jokes of Cooks' I laughed at turned out to be CK's.
- catfud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2the aristocrats is totally different
its not somethign that comics say on stage its origin is as a joke among comics to try to gross each other out
when someone is on stage doing material that is theres and 4 years later someone else puts those same jokes on a CD its stealing - dxmzan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I've heard Brian Regan do the kids name with no vowels bit before on Comedy Central Presents. So who thought of it first? Louie CK or Brian Regan?
- TheElectricMonk, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6this isnt really stealing, he based his jokes on louie cks, but they arent exactly the same like with mencia, he actually did them a little diferent, and im my opinion, made them better(the "hit by a car" in perticular)
- plague, on 10/12/2007, -9/+11I agree this is really a stretch to be considered stealing. I also think Dane's versions of these are much funnier. Especially the full joke about getting hit by a car. "Flying through the air, doing combo moves from Tekken..." Gold. Louis CK is a great comedian though. Can't the digg crowd just enjoy some different comedians?
I remember a couple years ago when Dane Cook was still small time and it wasn't "popular" to hate him. I think I liked it better back then, when I could show his dvd to people that hadn't even heard of him and every single person loved his entire act. I've seen him a few times live and I still think he is absolutely hilarious. I think the haters just hate because it's the in thing to do now that he's so well known. It's sad really. - davids, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1why no freaking meltdown on the boards like the Menstealia v Rogaine crap all over the place??
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Two jokes were stolen from long ago. The first was the joke about naming your children. Stolen from Dick Van Dyke when he first started on TV.
The "itchy *****" is an old Lenny Bruce skit.
Seems to me that all these comedians are just recycling someone else's material.
I bet Joe Rogan has a few skits that could be twists on something old too.
The other problem I see for these "known" comedians is that they are touring comedy clubs all the time. I bet they have no idea when an idea is original or if they maybe heard it someplace else. - LINES, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3All of you saying Dane Cook is not funny (I for one do not believe that he is funny. Pablo Fransisco deserved more attention) But saying how Dane Cook is not funny because he never tells a joke, yet Louie CK is hilarious. How does that make any sense? If Dane Cook ripped them off, and they're the style that everyone has grown accustomed to -never telling a joke- Would Louie CK also not be funny based on that logic?
I don't know... i'm just saying... - cawpin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I think not my good man. I listened to Dane Cook recently because I had heard he was really funny. He's not. He simply yells and repeats everything and it just isn't funny. Whether or not he steals material, which it seems he does, he is not funny.
- catfishkempster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Ummm...and no one ever made a joke about seeing some one hit or get hit by a car before Louie CK? I've made very similar jokes about the subject well before I ever heard of Dane Cook (and I've never heard of Louie CK before this).
There are similarities, but I don't think that it's plagiarism.
But hey, that's just my opinion - ImSoFnAwesom, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Loius CK already stated on his forums, ages ago, that he doesnt really care about the joke... and that it most likely wasnt stolen..
Buried as Inaccurate - InitialDMP5, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Dane Cook has been doing the same material since at least 2001. The jokes only got popular when he did, and his CDs came out.
I whoever said Pablo Francisco deserved the attention more-I'm totally with you on that!!! Pablo is the man. He comes up with stuff right there on stage. Truly a funny guy.
As for all this stealing, I think people are just looking too deeply into something that is just not there. I could not see anything that could be considered stealing in the audio clips provided. Just general topics. And Danes delievery just makes his better anyway.
Please people, move on from all of this... - pbuenro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"Boston Frat-Boy Douche" -Maxim
- Fragalishus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Cook also had a bit about naming his kid Optimus Prime. Try and find a comedian who hasn't done a bit about naming their kid something ridiculous.
Take any 2 comedians body of work and look hard enough you can claim theft on probably 75% of the material. Every single late night show has had a joke about "who's gonna build the fence if we kick the Mexicans out" but I don't hear any outrage over that. - mtrip, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Steve Martin did a bit about naming his kids weird sounds about twenty years ago, and calling them in to the house, etc. http://www.dead-frog.com/archives/2007/01/steal_this_joke_louis_ck_dane_cook_steve_martin.php So I guess they both stole from Steve. Or maybe it's just a joke that naturally occurs to people.
- byaselli21, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4dane cook is still a silly bitch though
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Dumbass
- MystikD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sarah Silverman - Full Frontal Jewdity.......... anyone see that Maxim layout?
- dnite, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I can understand the Carlos Mencia thing. His jokes are pretty much word for word. Sure. But this is stupid. I saw this a while ago and thought it was dumb back then, but in light of recent events, I decided to give it another chance.
First off, I love both of these comics. Louis CK and Dane Cook are both extremely hilarious comedians. With that said, these 3 jokes are just about the same general topics. There are no real specific similarities other than, 'a joke about naming you kids', 'a joke about someone getting hit by a car' and 'a joke about an itchy ass hole' .. that's it. In my opinion, Dane's delivery makes all 3 of these jokes funnier anyways, but they aren't similar enough to be considered ripped off or stolen. Stop making mountains out of mole-hill's, here. -
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