re: Amy Schumer accused of stealing jokes by other female comedians

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Very few funny female comedians. Liza Schlesinger is good but she's also easy on the eyes so that helps.

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Natasha Leggero is finally starting to get some acclaim. She's been around for a while and has a similar shtick as Schumer, except she's actually funny and doesn't take herself seriously at all.

She's super sexy too IMO.

Wtf?

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When she shamed that kid for making the same joke about her as she has made about herself, she lost what little respect I had for her.

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Especially since the kid crumbled because he was a spineless kid. Any self respecting adult would have doubled down.

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he's trolling.

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I'm not. She's full of herself and the only reason people listen to her is because she was diagnosed with cancer. That's sad, but it doesn't make her funny.

I never found Amy Shumer funny. I don't like Kanye, but I thought him walking past her try hard arse when she pulled her stunt on the red carpet was awesome.

Yea she wasn't a successful comedian before she was diagnosed with cancer or anything.

Amy Schumer is really ugly in person and close up.

So it was a troll? Because I really don't think Tig is funny at all.

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Who does the same bits as Maria Bamford or Tig Notaro?

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Nobody. They are on a different plant. Bamford is a friggin' genius. She's mentally ill (not in a trolling way, I mean she is literally mentally ill and has mined it for material) which gives her a truly unique perspective. The show she did for her parents is one of the most awkward things ever conceived. And Tig's Live album is of course the most famous comedy set in the past 10 years. Huge fan of both.

Joke stealing is one of those things that it's hard to tell what the line is. I mean, as Dane Cook said on Louie, which is more biographical than anyone wants to admit, "You think you're the only one who ever had an itchy a-hole?" The single most notorious joke thief in comedy history is Robin Williams, and he's beloved. But here's the thing, he stole material from everywhere, but what made him funny was the delivery and the structure of the joke. It's not the topic of the joke that constitutes joke theft, it's that structure.

Which is what was so appalling about Leary. He flat out stole Hicks' act and got away with it because, as the joke goes, there is no cure for cancer. Leary was able to outrun it because Hicks dies and Leary quickly moved past standup and became more of an actor and TV personality. He also had enough skill to write jokes after Hicks' died. Joke theft certainly got him his big break, but he's been able to outrun it by showing he was more than a joke thief, could act, and was a genuinely good guy who people like on a personal level.

That's one of the problems. Comedy is an insular world, and they tend to go after the guys they don't like. Shumer will likely survive this because, well, she's seemingly well-liked among other comedians. Carlos Mencia couldn't survive it because other comics hated his guts. The real sin isn't stealing jokes, that's just a cover for what other comics truly hate: being a dick.

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The show she did for her parents is one of the most awkward things ever conceived.

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That was very funny, and yes, very awkward. When she takes a break to get cookies