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He sounds like a whiny little bitch in that diatribe.

He goes a bit far for sure but... he's a comedian. That's sorta the job description. Also, the dude did steal his shit and lie about it.

Patton Oswalt is also a whiny bitch and the type of person that would write an unfunny, whiny bitch response in this little blog post of his.

He's also protecting his livelihood.

I'm not sure he needs to protect his livelihood from some dimestore comic in Nowheresville Iowa. I don't like or intentionally listen to stand-up comedy and I've heard the Famous Bowls bit several times.

Yeah, seems a little unnecessary.

I like Patton Oswalt, but I would hope he'd be above something like this. That ripoff guy's deliver was terrible, and I'm sure he couldn't have really gotten anywhere performing some of Patton Oswalt's most well-known material.

Still better than Ratatouille.

Right. Business usually don't give a shit if you rip off their products as long as you stay small. The guy is getting paid for using Oswalt's work. It's understandable that he's pissed about it given that: 1) it's his hardwork; 2) jokes are how he makes money.

Tanner - we're not debating whether he should be upset about this guy stealing his material, because that's a given, but if he had to sound like such a whiny pussy while writing this blog post.

Maybe you should rewrite it with the appropriate masculine anger.

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I had the nearly the same reaction when David Cross (who I am a fan of, at least in skit and Tobias Fünke form) wrote his Open Letter to Larry the Cable Guy

No it just sounds like you're not a fan of the guy, that's all I'm sayin'. You don't like it when he exaggerates about [insert bit / rant topic here], so why would you like this?

I'm serious, how should he respond? You acknowledge that a response is warranted because the guy did plagiarize his material, but if you are going to respond it's best not to appear whiny and bitchy. Give us an example.

I make my living working for people who give away their "valuable intellectual property" for free because they think it's the right thing to do, so I'm not all that sympathetic to the "I thought of it so I should make all of the money from it" line of reasoning.

Which is fair, I guess.

That's not really the line of reasoning, but okay. I have better things to do than argue over intellectual property. You win. Maybe he could start a service where he gives his jokes away and they come w/ a free hug and a "God, made you special" t-shirt?

MACHINE - see above, I edited my response. Atton Poswalt's response is much more succint and less bitchy.

The point is that he's not actually "ripped off" in any meaningful way here. Oswalt makes his money from touring and telling his jokes, and from TV gigs he gets by virtue of his popularity as a comic. But stand-up comics are not fungible -- nobody is going to buy tickets to see Mike Nobody perform Patton Oswalt's jokes instead of Oswalt, so Oswalt won't lose a dime if the guy "steals" them. Sure, you can imagine a world in which a competent comic (or enough of them) rips off a better comic and actually diverts business, but the fact is, by the time anybody actually wants to rip you off, you're too famous for that to work.

So Oswalt can get all self-righteous about the stand-up comic code of honor, or about how hard he worked to come up with the line about KFC bowls being "sadness bowls," but he hasn't lost anything in the bargain, so that's really all it is -- self-righteousness.

He probably shouldn't really give a shit because the guy was probably making pennies and obviously is going nowhere. Patten's would have been able to demand a substantial amount. Nick should have just billed himself as a "greatest bits" guy from the get-go and ran with that.