Agreed, stealing a whole joke like that is an issue. If it were a simple one-liner, like your "I love it when a plan comes together", that's one thing. But a bit that has some meat to it? Naw, you have to cite the source.
How the heck could you not have known that quote comes from "The A-Team"? :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kelwyn" <ravena...@yahoo.com> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2010 8:49:58 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Columbia Valedictorian steals Patton Oswald's Star Trek Routine It was a simple fix: the valedictorian could have simply said "the comedian Patton Oswald tells a story that I believe is apropos here -" I guarantee he would gotten the same life from friends and families that had not heard the joke yet. I admit I don't always site the source. I have been saying "I love when a plan comes together" for years without knowing that catchphrase is from "The A-Team." But I use this in casual conversation which has different rules from formal speeches. My other favorite quote is "No matter where you go, there you are!" which I always attribute to the movie "Buckeroo Banzai" (which some say Buckeroo stole from Confucius). ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com , Martin Baxter <martinbaxt...@...> wrote: > > Call me perplexed, but... don't we all, in a very real sense, steal comedy > bits as we go through life? Often, I use an expression, when I'm venturing > into dark humor, "I'm sick... I need help." I swiped that from a comedy show > that aired late nights back in the 90s. The name of the show escapes me, but > I remember that it was a Springer-esque parody. > > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Kelwyn <ravena...@...> wrote: > > > > > > > http://gothamist.com/2010/05/25/columbia_valedictorian_stole_patton.php > > > > And in reporting all this, Columbia University student-run blog "The Bwog" > > had this piece of advice for fellow students: "If you're going to steal > > comedy bits, don't steal from living comedians who use the Internet a lot. > > Steal from Milton Berle, he never tweets!" > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OqBMTMb3dE > > > > > > > > > > -- > "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell > wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik >
