Some articles on joke theft, jokes, joke:
Hack (comedy) - History
... From the music hall and vaudeville beginnings of stand-up comedy, joke theft was common as there were few chances that a performer from one area would meet one from another and a ... Most jokes at the time were one-liners and there was little in the way of proof of a joke's origin, but the value of each joke was immeasurable to a comedian ... that Milton Berle had stolen some of his jokes ...
... From the music hall and vaudeville beginnings of stand-up comedy, joke theft was common as there were few chances that a performer from one area would meet one from another and a ... Most jokes at the time were one-liners and there was little in the way of proof of a joke's origin, but the value of each joke was immeasurable to a comedian ... that Milton Berle had stolen some of his jokes ...
Famous quotes containing the words theft and/or joke:
“The childless experts on child raising also bring tears of laughter to my eyes when they say, “I love children because they’re so honest.” There is not an agent in the CIA or the KGB who knows how to conceal the theft of food, how to fake being asleep, or how to forge a parent’s signature like a child.”
—Bill Cosby (20th century)
“What a vast fraternity it is,—that of ‘Hearts that Ache.’ For the last three months it has seemed to me as though all society were coming to me, to drop its mask for a moment and initiate me into the mystery. How we do suffer! And we go on laughing; for, as a practical joke at our expense, life is a success.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
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