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[challenge entry] Homage rather than plagiarism.


RIS? Shame on you!

From the Alternative Medicine challenge. See all 199 entries (closed)

(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Thu 7 Jan 2010, 12:00, archived)
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"I have a scoop for you. I stole his [Leary's} act. I camouflaged it with punchlines, and to really throw people off, I did it before he did."

Leary is cnut
(Sonny_Jim Kirkladn has a small penis, Thu 7 Jan 2010, 12:09, archived)
# ^This
I'm currently reading a biography of bill hicks. I'd recommend it.
(MrChimp previously Monsieur, Thu 7 Jan 2010, 19:02, archived)
# something something..someone elses jokes
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Thu 7 Jan 2010, 12:09, archived)
# Yes because nobody ever does that round here.
(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Thu 7 Jan 2010, 12:13, archived)
# yes but we don't make a career out of doing it

we do it for shits n giggles
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Thu 7 Jan 2010, 12:27, archived)
# Ah right - Denis rather than me nicking the jokes.
*releases wrong end of stick*
(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Thu 7 Jan 2010, 12:32, archived)
# ooh no didn't mean you :)
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Thu 7 Jan 2010, 13:19, archived)
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It was the fact that he stole Hick's act (word for word in some cases) and stage persona, giving rise to the joke:

"Why is Denis Leary a star while Bill Hicks is unknown? Because there's no cure for cancer"
(Sonny_Jim Kirkladn has a small penis, Thu 7 Jan 2010, 13:35, archived)
# Silly
Denis Leary is a Hicks tribute act!
He does it really well.
(waxdart hello., Thu 7 Jan 2010, 14:27, archived)
# *looks in vain for an "i don't like this" link*
(MrChimp previously Monsieur, Thu 7 Jan 2010, 19:03, archived)