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Amy Schumer accused of Stealing Material (1 Viewer)

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This might be the most damning Amy Schumer joke theft accusation yet

Just a few days after Amy Schumer took to Jim Norton’s Sirius XM show to address and deny every single accusation of joke stealing that had been leveled against her thus far, a new one has come out.

A video posted to vid.me by user JoshSmith contains persuasive evidence that Schumer’s “Magic Man” sketch contained two jokes ripped from Joseph Tran’s underrated web series “Reasons Not To Date a Magician,” which aired in May and June of 2013. In the first, the titular magician (Tran) makes a condom into a balloon animal. In the second, he pulls a series of brightly colored scarves from his date’s ######. Both of these gags also appear in an “Inside Amy Schumer” sketch that aired on Comedy Central in April of 2014. This accusation bears a striking similarity to the Kathleen Madigan onein that not one, but two jokes from the same person appear to have been lifted and packaged together.

Tran actually commented on the similarities in a YouTube video (embedded below) in May of 2014 after the “Inside Amy Schumer” episode aired. He noted the “Schumer” sketch was the brainchild of staff writer Kyle Dunnigan, who also played the magician, and pointed the finger more at him than at her. (Although, as the show’s creator and executive producer, Schumer’s ultimately liable for any ####-ups her staff may commit.) Tran, via YouTube:

“The Schumer bit skews a little too closely to ours to be purely coincidental. That and we wrote our version, registered it with the WGA, and produced our episodes over a year ago. So Kyle, did you maybe borrow some ideas from us?”
When Schumer went on Norton’s show last week, she emphasized the great lengths she and her team go to in order to make sure nothing they use is even remotely similar to anything that’s been done before. The presence of these and other previously done (and readily available) jokes in her material makes me think they aren’t trying very hard. Could it be that Dunnigan is the one doing the lifting? It’s hard to know without seeing the credits on the individual sketches in question.

It’s still possible that Schumer and her team thought up all these jokes independently of the people who did them first and this is just a series of unfortunate coincidences borne of freakishly bad luck. There are only so many ideas in the world. But with each new item that comes out, it seems more and more likely that something shady is going on with Schumer or someone on her staff.
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When Carlos Mencia gets run out of town afterall of the jokes he's supposedly stolen, then I'll worry about Amy Schumer.

 
Comedians and musicians take something from another artist and add to it

to make it their own work. Those two bits are exactly alike. The worst of it

is that Schumer's has no energy or humor. Tran's bit is trying to be funny.

 
It's hard to create as much content as she's putting forth. Tv series, film and an hour of standup (which alone usually takes a year). Not the least but surprised to hear her or a member of her "teams" are lifting.

I just resent that she came out recently and said her "act" was her playing "a privileged republican girl". It's the laziest red meat response ever. She's a hack

 
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Meh.

Doesn't really surprise me that two comics would think to turn a condom into a balloon animal and then to do the never ending scarf out of a ######.

As noted, she has to come up with a ton of material and has a team of writers.

Let it go.

 
Tom Servo said:
When Carlos Mencia gets run out of town afterall of the jokes he's supposedly stolen, then I'll worry about Amy Schumer.
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I don't know much about him, but when I saw Mencia a couple years ago, he played off the crowd a lot and I'd be shocked if that material was stolen.
 
Looks like Timchochet has a new hero?

I did wonder about this scene in Trainwreck because it is partly autobiographical and if you've seen it you know she broke all the other rules.

Crazy Intern: When you're writing an article, what is the 10 biggest mistake you can make?

Amy: Plagiarizing, getting drunk, f###ing someone...

It's too bad because Amy is talented. Unlike Otis, she is successful in losing a good amount of weight. I hope this won't bring on a "Jonah Hill" relapse.

 
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I am sure nobody before tran ever thought of making a balloon animal out of a condom or scarves out of the refrozen fish box.

 
Just asking here, but to be a comic do you have to have an encyclopedic knowledge of any joke that has been uttered over the past 50 or 100 years?

 
Abraham said:
"Good said:
Abraham said:
Who cares. Comedians lift jokes. Musicians lift riffs. They aren't exactly artists.
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This is a dumb take.

But, I think the leap in logic that she needs to be culpable for all of her writers is a little ridiculous. This should be on Dunnigan, not her.
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Why is it dumb? There is very little that's new under the sun in comedy and music. Repackaging it is fine.
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It's even a dumber take now.

A comedian, musician, whatever, should at least make an effort to be original. Being influenced by something and sort of sounding like it in a way is going to happen, be it a comedian or a musician. Just lifting a whole joke or some bluesman's entire song part and parcel is bad. And you are bad, and you should feel bad.

 
Good Posting Judge said:
Abraham said:
"Good said:
Abraham said:
Who cares. Comedians lift jokes. Musicians lift riffs. They aren't exactly artists.
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This is a dumb take.

But, I think the leap in logic that she needs to be culpable for all of her writers is a little ridiculous. This should be on Dunnigan, not her.
Click to expand...
Why is it dumb? There is very little that's new under the sun in comedy and music. Repackaging it is fine.
Click to expand...
It's even a dumber take now.

A comedian, musician, whatever, should at least make an effort to be original. Being influenced by something and sort of sounding like it in a way is going to happen, be it a comedian or a musician. Just lifting a whole joke or some bluesman's entire song part and parcel is bad. And you are bad, and you should feel bad.
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:lmao:

 
Good Posting Judge said:
Abraham said:
"Good said:
Abraham said:
Who cares. Comedians lift jokes. Musicians lift riffs. They aren't exactly artists.
Click to expand...
This is a dumb take.

But, I think the leap in logic that she needs to be culpable for all of her writers is a little ridiculous. This should be on Dunnigan, not her.
Click to expand...
Why is it dumb? There is very little that's new under the sun in comedy and music. Repackaging it is fine.
Click to expand...
It's even a dumber take now.

A comedian, musician, whatever, should at least make an effort to be original. Being influenced by something and sort of sounding like it in a way is going to happen, be it a comedian or a musician. Just lifting a whole joke or some bluesman's entire song part and parcel is bad. And you are bad, and you should feel bad.
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:lol:

Says the guy using the word "take"....

 
nirad3 said:
Good Posting Judge said:
Abraham said:
"Good said:
Abraham said:
Who cares. Comedians lift jokes. Musicians lift riffs. They aren't exactly artists.
Click to expand...
This is a dumb take.

But, I think the leap in logic that she needs to be culpable for all of her writers is a little ridiculous. This should be on Dunnigan, not her.
Click to expand...
Why is it dumb? There is very little that's new under the sun in comedy and music. Repackaging it is fine.
Click to expand...
It's even a dumber take now.

A comedian, musician, whatever, should at least make an effort to be original. Being influenced by something and sort of sounding like it in a way is going to happen, be it a comedian or a musician. Just lifting a whole joke or some bluesman's entire song part and parcel is bad. And you are bad, and you should feel bad.
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:lol:

Says the guy using the word "take"....
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haveatake don't suck or you will get run

 
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