if someone tells a joke and I heard it elsewhere I will say so
I don't care if it ruins the flow... deliver the line and then say where it came from
I find it kind of gross to do otherwise. likewise if you were quoting a book and didn't admit it, etc.
That sounds really displeasureable to be around, if I am being honest.
If someone asked if I quoted something, I would tell them. But people are under no obligation to force that fact into a conversation.
I mean, sure. no one is obligated to do anything.
but I mean first of all, if it was apparent that it's the exact same concept as someone else? I'd assume it was a 'reference' anyway and go "oh that's blahblah! nice!"
Hey, how did the Soviets steal the bomb from the US again? Walk out the front door with a folder labeled TOP SECRET?
More or less.
Well, no, they didn't directly steal it from the US, not all of it anyway. They had had a nuclear programme going as well, and they did make a very concerted effort to snatch as much of the remnants of the german nuclear programme as possible which helped
all the spying helped, but not terribly much - it was more "ahah so we are on the right track here" than "HOW TO A-BOMB"
the US simply didn't have that great of a lead
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y2jake215certified Flat Birther theoristthe Last Good Boy onlineRegistered Userregular
i usually jack people's impressions cuz i don't give one whit
i've been doing nick kroll's sly stallone for like 2 weeks cuz i love it
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
if someone tells a joke and I heard it elsewhere I will say so
I don't care if it ruins the flow... deliver the line and then say where it came from
I find it kind of gross to do otherwise. likewise if you were quoting a book and didn't admit it, etc.
I might be like you, except there's never a need because most of my friends will ask, "Where is that from" and/or the teller will say "oh you just reminded me of a bit by [name]" when they're about to launch into some quote.
I made a game! Hotline Maui. Requires mouse and keyboard.
if someone tells a joke and I heard it elsewhere I will say so
I don't care if it ruins the flow... deliver the line and then say where it came from
I find it kind of gross to do otherwise. likewise if you were quoting a book and didn't admit it, etc.
I might be like you, except there's never a need because most of my friends will ask, "Where is that from" and/or the teller will say "oh you just reminded me of a bit by [name]" when they're about to launch into some quote.
if someone tells a joke and I heard it elsewhere I will say so
I don't care if it ruins the flow... deliver the line and then say where it came from
I find it kind of gross to do otherwise. likewise if you were quoting a book and didn't admit it, etc.
That sounds really displeasureable to be around, if I am being honest.
If someone asked if I quoted something, I would tell them. But people are under no obligation to force that fact into a conversation.
I mean, sure. no one is obligated to do anything.
but I mean first of all, if it was apparent that it's the exact same concept as someone else? I'd assume it was a 'reference' anyway and go "oh that's blahblah! nice!"
Yeah, either it's a reference where part of the fun is that other people recognize the joke or else the person would have been oddly trying to pass off a polished stand-up joke as their own.
So either way it generally makes sense to mention it.
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I made a game! Hotline Maui. Requires mouse and keyboard.
if someone tells a joke and I heard it elsewhere I will say so
I don't care if it ruins the flow... deliver the line and then say where it came from
I find it kind of gross to do otherwise. likewise if you were quoting a book and didn't admit it, etc.
I might be like you, except there's never a need because most of my friends will ask, "Where is that from" and/or the teller will say "oh you just reminded me of a bit by [name]" when they're about to launch into some quote.
this is generally how it works for me too.
Oh, I gotcha, yeah.
I made a game! Hotline Maui. Requires mouse and keyboard.
if someone tells a joke and I heard it elsewhere I will say so
I don't care if it ruins the flow... deliver the line and then say where it came from
I find it kind of gross to do otherwise. likewise if you were quoting a book and didn't admit it, etc.
That sounds really displeasureable to be around, if I am being honest.
If someone asked if I quoted something, I would tell them. But people are under no obligation to force that fact into a conversation.
I mean, sure. no one is obligated to do anything.
but I mean first of all, if it was apparent that it's the exact same concept as someone else? I'd assume it was a 'reference' anyway and go "oh that's blahblah! nice!"
and that's nice
do that "heh, [comedian]" to the guy speaking and he's like "yeah" and then he goes on is always a neat little moment
but that's not what you said first! You said that he has to deliver the line and then say where it came from even if it ruins the flow which sounds dumb and displeasurable and just intentionally wanting to make the conversation a little less good?
I mean also on top of that you don't get to say you recognize it if he says who it is
it's a nice moment when somebody is like heh yeah I know this one or even like heh yeah I know what website this is from and i'm like oh cool in my head
but if I was gonna go like "this was from dostojevski btw" I am gonna sound like a twat at worst and a bore at best
battlefield 4
left for dead 2
payday 2
borderlands 2
hmm
I need a better PC
i am almost squandering mine by bein gso bad at with mouse and keyboard still
i don't play many vidya these days so it's taking me a while to feel comfortable with something other than controller since that's where i spent most of my life
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y2jake215certified Flat Birther theoristthe Last Good Boy onlineRegistered Userregular
if someone tells a joke and I heard it elsewhere I will say so
I don't care if it ruins the flow... deliver the line and then say where it came from
I find it kind of gross to do otherwise. likewise if you were quoting a book and didn't admit it, etc.
That sounds really displeasureable to be around, if I am being honest.
If someone asked if I quoted something, I would tell them. But people are under no obligation to force that fact into a conversation.
I mean, sure. no one is obligated to do anything.
but I mean first of all, if it was apparent that it's the exact same concept as someone else? I'd assume it was a 'reference' anyway and go "oh that's blahblah! nice!"
and that's nice
do that "heh, [comedian]" to the guy speaking and he's like "yeah" and then he goes on is always a neat little moment
but that's not what you said first! You said that he has to deliver the line and then say where it came from even if it ruins the flow which sounds dumb and displeasurable and just intentionally wanting to make the conversation a little less good?
I mean also on top of that you don't get to say you recognize it if he says who it is
it's a nice moment when somebody is like heh yeah I know this one or even like heh yeah I know what website this is from and i'm like oh cool in my head
but if I was gonna go like "this was from dostojevski btw" I am gonna sound like a twat at worst and a bore at best
well I don't care if it ruins the flow, but I also said you can say where it came from after! even after everyone laughs. you need not ruin the flow, but I also think that's secondary to not acting like you came up with something you didn't.
So, the idea that a regular person repeating, reusing or otherwise appropriating a joke is somehow wrong and that accreditation is a moral responsibility? It's wrong.
There is no such moral imperative. It's not how comedy or communication works. And jokes aren't things to be protected, they are things to be told.
Noooooooooope.
edit: To actually address your point. You're in academia, right? How would you feel if someone used your work in an academic paper without citing it? How would you feel about using someone else's work without citing it?
This is kind of different though?
Like I don't think many academics care if some person on the street is telling their friend some crazy thing without citing it. Passing it off professionally is a different thing, but we're not talking about comedians getting paid to go on stage and using others' jokes, which would be a more analogous analogy.
if someone tells a joke and I heard it elsewhere I will say so
I don't care if it ruins the flow... deliver the line and then say where it came from
I find it kind of gross to do otherwise. likewise if you were quoting a book and didn't admit it, etc.
That sounds really displeasureable to be around, if I am being honest.
If someone asked if I quoted something, I would tell them. But people are under no obligation to force that fact into a conversation.
I mean, sure. no one is obligated to do anything.
but I mean first of all, if it was apparent that it's the exact same concept as someone else? I'd assume it was a 'reference' anyway and go "oh that's blahblah! nice!"
and that's nice
do that "heh, [comedian]" to the guy speaking and he's like "yeah" and then he goes on is always a neat little moment
but that's not what you said first! You said that he has to deliver the line and then say where it came from even if it ruins the flow which sounds dumb and displeasurable and just intentionally wanting to make the conversation a little less good?
I mean also on top of that you don't get to say you recognize it if he says who it is
it's a nice moment when somebody is like heh yeah I know this one or even like heh yeah I know what website this is from and i'm like oh cool in my head
but if I was gonna go like "this was from dostojevski btw" I am gonna sound like a twat at worst and a bore at best
well I don't care if it ruins the flow, but I also said you can say where it came from after! even after everyone laughs. you need not ruin the flow, but I also think that's secondary to not acting like you came up with something you didn't.
it's this part that is odd to me
if you're having a conversation with someone and they say something that makes you laugh- is your natural assumption, if they don't credit it, that they are claiming authorship?
that is i think the crux of this disagreement
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BUT also my academic field is wildly different, and I'm entirely insulated because no one even knows anything about what I do, for several steps.
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simonwolfi can feel a differencetoday, a differenceRegistered Userregular
So, the idea that a regular person repeating, reusing or otherwise appropriating a joke is somehow wrong and that accreditation is a moral responsibility? It's wrong.
There is no such moral imperative. It's not how comedy or communication works. And jokes aren't things to be protected, they are things to be told.
Noooooooooope.
edit: To actually address your point. You're in academia, right? How would you feel if someone used your work in an academic paper without citing it? How would you feel about using someone else's work without citing it?
This is kind of different though?
Like I don't think many academics care if some person on the street is telling their friend some crazy thing without citing it. Passing it off professionally is a different thing, but we're not talking about comedians getting paid to go on stage and using others' jokes, which would be a more analogous analogy.
So, the idea that a regular person repeating, reusing or otherwise appropriating a joke is somehow wrong and that accreditation is a moral responsibility? It's wrong.
There is no such moral imperative. It's not how comedy or communication works. And jokes aren't things to be protected, they are things to be told.
Noooooooooope.
edit: To actually address your point. You're in academia, right? How would you feel if someone used your work in an academic paper without citing it? How would you feel about using someone else's work without citing it?
This is kind of different though?
Like I don't think many academics care if some person on the street is telling their friend some crazy thing without citing it. Passing it off professionally is a different thing, but we're not talking about comedians getting paid to go on stage and using others' jokes, which would be a more analogous analogy.
I totally use info from academic papers in a discussion without citing them.
Your move, Academia.
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VariableMouth CongressStroke Me Lady FameRegistered Userregular
if someone tells a joke and I heard it elsewhere I will say so
I don't care if it ruins the flow... deliver the line and then say where it came from
I find it kind of gross to do otherwise. likewise if you were quoting a book and didn't admit it, etc.
That sounds really displeasureable to be around, if I am being honest.
If someone asked if I quoted something, I would tell them. But people are under no obligation to force that fact into a conversation.
I mean, sure. no one is obligated to do anything.
but I mean first of all, if it was apparent that it's the exact same concept as someone else? I'd assume it was a 'reference' anyway and go "oh that's blahblah! nice!"
and that's nice
do that "heh, [comedian]" to the guy speaking and he's like "yeah" and then he goes on is always a neat little moment
but that's not what you said first! You said that he has to deliver the line and then say where it came from even if it ruins the flow which sounds dumb and displeasurable and just intentionally wanting to make the conversation a little less good?
I mean also on top of that you don't get to say you recognize it if he says who it is
it's a nice moment when somebody is like heh yeah I know this one or even like heh yeah I know what website this is from and i'm like oh cool in my head
but if I was gonna go like "this was from dostojevski btw" I am gonna sound like a twat at worst and a bore at best
well I don't care if it ruins the flow, but I also said you can say where it came from after! even after everyone laughs. you need not ruin the flow, but I also think that's secondary to not acting like you came up with something you didn't.
it's this part that is odd to me
if you're having a conversation with someone and they say something that makes you laugh- is your natural assumption, if they don't credit it, that they are claiming authorship?
that is i think the crux of this disagreement
if there is nothing stating otherwise I assume the person came up with what they are saying to me
there's a loooooooooong tradition of things as simple as "ever hear the one about the _____"
if someone tells a joke and I heard it elsewhere I will say so
I don't care if it ruins the flow... deliver the line and then say where it came from
I find it kind of gross to do otherwise. likewise if you were quoting a book and didn't admit it, etc.
That sounds really displeasureable to be around, if I am being honest.
If someone asked if I quoted something, I would tell them. But people are under no obligation to force that fact into a conversation.
I mean, sure. no one is obligated to do anything.
but I mean first of all, if it was apparent that it's the exact same concept as someone else? I'd assume it was a 'reference' anyway and go "oh that's blahblah! nice!"
and that's nice
do that "heh, [comedian]" to the guy speaking and he's like "yeah" and then he goes on is always a neat little moment
but that's not what you said first! You said that he has to deliver the line and then say where it came from even if it ruins the flow which sounds dumb and displeasurable and just intentionally wanting to make the conversation a little less good?
I mean also on top of that you don't get to say you recognize it if he says who it is
it's a nice moment when somebody is like heh yeah I know this one or even like heh yeah I know what website this is from and i'm like oh cool in my head
but if I was gonna go like "this was from dostojevski btw" I am gonna sound like a twat at worst and a bore at best
well I don't care if it ruins the flow, but I also said you can say where it came from after! even after everyone laughs. you need not ruin the flow, but I also think that's secondary to not acting like you came up with something you didn't.
I'm not gonna say where it came from unless anyone has a reason to care
and nobody ever has a reason to believe I am trying to act like I came up with it
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When I started doing comedy – back in 1988 – I did a joke one night, at an unpaid open mike, that killed. It killed. I wasn’t used to having anything in my set, in those first few months of shows, get any response from an audience other than a hard blink and an impatient sigh.
There’s a dopamine rush, for a comedian, when you cobble a thought out of thin air, when you arrange words not as a sentence but suddenly, as a joke. A for-real, plucked-from-your-skull joke. Something you created which, when you reach the part you want the audience to laugh at? And then…holy shit! They actually laugh? That’s the spike in the vein that sets the compass for your life.
Well, I’d gotten a taste. I wanted more.
The only problem was, it wasn’t my joke.
In those early days, not only did I perform as many sets as I could get, I watched as much comedy as I could find. The same way a writer has to both write, but also read. Huge bites of both, if they want to hone their voice. I’m sure this is the same in any creative field.
There was a lot of comedy to watch in the late 80’s. Too much, really. Endless cable shows, microphones in front of brick walls, geometric backgrounds, bland curtains. But for me, a suburban kid who had limited access to the city and thus limited access to other comedians to watch and learn from? The Basic Cable Jester Parade was boot camp, college and conservatory, all at the same time.
And, in watching the endless procession of amazing comedians on TV at that time, as well as working a day job and going out at night to do sets, I lived on three hours sleep a day – about eighteen hours, total, per week. And you combine that sleep deprivation with my consuming ambition, plus the fact that the few waking hours I had at home were spent chomping down all of the televised stand-up I could hunt down?
Well, I stole a joke. Not consciously. I heard something I found hilarious, mis-remembered it as an inspiration of my own, and then said it onstage. And got big laughs.
Here it is: “Whenever I’m sitting on a bus, and someone asks me if the seat next to me is free, I have an answer that guarantees no one will want that seat. I look up and smile and say, ‘No one but…The Lord.”
Huge laugh on that one. Pow! Bigger than anything else in my set at the time, that’s for sure.
I came off stage and Blaine Capatch, a comedian friend of mine who’s a never-miss machine gun in terms of quantity and quality when it comes to jokes, took me aside and said, “That’s a Carol Leifer joke, man.”
It hit me just as soon as he’d said it. He was right. It was a Carol Leifer joke. Pretty much word-for-word. I’d seen her do it on A&E’s Evening at the Improv one night and then, during a Diet Coke and Cup o’ Noodles lunch at the law firm I was clerking at, I jotted it down in my notebook as if I’d written it. And then went up onstage and killed with it. At two in the morning, for probably 17 people and no money. But what the fuck did I care at that point? All I was chasing, as an open miker, was the rush – and, I was hoping, paid work. Regularly killing during my sets would lead to that work, wouldn’t it?
In the exact moment after I’d realized that what Blaine said was true, that I’d cribbed a laugh from someone else’s creativity and inspiration, my ego kicked in. And, I mean, my real ego. Not ego’s sociopathic cousin, hubris, which would have made me defensive, aggressive and ultimately rationalize the theft. No, the good kind of ego, the kind that wanted success and fame and praise on my own merits, no matter how long it took.
I said, “Oh shit, you’re right. I didn’t even realize I was doing that. Goddamit…”
“Eh. You do it all the time when you’re starting out. Everyone does. You can’t avoid it. Just don’t make it a habit,” said Blaine, and headed back into the showroom to watch someone destroy, probably, with a rap song about farting. It was the 80’s.
if someone tells a joke and I heard it elsewhere I will say so
I don't care if it ruins the flow... deliver the line and then say where it came from
I find it kind of gross to do otherwise. likewise if you were quoting a book and didn't admit it, etc.
That sounds really displeasureable to be around, if I am being honest.
If someone asked if I quoted something, I would tell them. But people are under no obligation to force that fact into a conversation.
I mean, sure. no one is obligated to do anything.
but I mean first of all, if it was apparent that it's the exact same concept as someone else? I'd assume it was a 'reference' anyway and go "oh that's blahblah! nice!"
and that's nice
do that "heh, [comedian]" to the guy speaking and he's like "yeah" and then he goes on is always a neat little moment
but that's not what you said first! You said that he has to deliver the line and then say where it came from even if it ruins the flow which sounds dumb and displeasurable and just intentionally wanting to make the conversation a little less good?
I mean also on top of that you don't get to say you recognize it if he says who it is
it's a nice moment when somebody is like heh yeah I know this one or even like heh yeah I know what website this is from and i'm like oh cool in my head
but if I was gonna go like "this was from dostojevski btw" I am gonna sound like a twat at worst and a bore at best
well I don't care if it ruins the flow, but I also said you can say where it came from after! even after everyone laughs. you need not ruin the flow, but I also think that's secondary to not acting like you came up with something you didn't.
it's this part that is odd to me
if you're having a conversation with someone and they say something that makes you laugh- is your natural assumption, if they don't credit it, that they are claiming authorship?
that is i think the crux of this disagreement
if there is nothing stating otherwise I assume the person came up with what they are saying to me
there's a loooooooooong tradition of things as simple as "ever hear the one about the _____"
huh; that is interesting
that is definitely not my natural presumption
i only assume they came up with it if it's extremely specific to a situation and given in that sort of reflexive, off-the-top-of-my-head tone
otherwise, i don't really know or think about whether they heard it elsewhere
So, the idea that a regular person repeating, reusing or otherwise appropriating a joke is somehow wrong and that accreditation is a moral responsibility? It's wrong.
There is no such moral imperative. It's not how comedy or communication works. And jokes aren't things to be protected, they are things to be told.
Noooooooooope.
edit: To actually address your point. You're in academia, right? How would you feel if someone used your work in an academic paper without citing it? How would you feel about using someone else's work without citing it?
This is kind of different though?
Like I don't think many academics care if some person on the street is telling their friend some crazy thing without citing it. Passing it off professionally is a different thing, but we're not talking about comedians getting paid to go on stage and using others' jokes, which would be a more analogous analogy.
Part of the distinction comes from how broadly and clearly academic work gets attributed to the author on the front end, though.
Scientists have little reason to mind because to the extent that a broader sweep of society cares about a scientist's work, it's hard for that to do anything but strengthen that scientist's job security during tenure negotiations, salary renegotiations, etc.
It's the opposite with most comics.
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Apothe0sisHave you ever questioned the nature of your reality?Registered Userregular
So, the idea that a regular person repeating, reusing or otherwise appropriating a joke is somehow wrong and that accreditation is a moral responsibility? It's wrong.
There is no such moral imperative. It's not how comedy or communication works. And jokes aren't things to be protected, they are things to be told.
Noooooooooope.
edit: To actually address your point. You're in academia, right? How would you feel if someone used your work in an academic paper without citing it? How would you feel about using someone else's work without citing it?
A regular person?
I would care not one whit. In fact, I would encourage it.
An academic? I would care because of how the world of academia works, and how citation affects career advancement.
So there's that.
As a principle I look forward to the glorious future in which information of all kinds is freed from any petty legal notion of ownership, which would include any field in which I am involved.
Lastly, I don't think there's a direct analogy to professional comedy from academia anyway, partly because I am sceptical of the probative value of analogies in general, partly because from what I understand the way that comedy works as an industry is rather different to that of academia.
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VariableMouth CongressStroke Me Lady FameRegistered Userregular
I'm not gonna say where it came from unless anyone has a reason to care
and nobody ever has a reason to believe I am trying to act like I came up with it
you saying something doesn't imply it's coming from your brain?
I get that we are informed from a ton of different places and certainly you can't follow exactly where each thought comes from enough to map it out for people. and that's not what I'm saying.
but when you're using someone else's exact joke to make people laugh...
maybe this is why I'm terrible at talking to people
So, the idea that a regular person repeating, reusing or otherwise appropriating a joke is somehow wrong and that accreditation is a moral responsibility? It's wrong.
There is no such moral imperative. It's not how comedy or communication works. And jokes aren't things to be protected, they are things to be told.
Noooooooooope.
edit: To actually address your point. You're in academia, right? How would you feel if someone used your work in an academic paper without citing it? How would you feel about using someone else's work without citing it?
This is kind of different though?
Like I don't think many academics care if some person on the street is telling their friend some crazy thing without citing it. Passing it off professionally is a different thing, but we're not talking about comedians getting paid to go on stage and using others' jokes, which would be a more analogous analogy.
I totally use info from academic papers in a discussion without citing them.
Your move, Academia.
You should go a step beyond and claim they're yours.
"Yeah in 1977 I discovered that high-density lipoproteins are protective against heart disease, whatevs."
Then it is agreed. The next person to post a .gif of a cat doing something hilarious without admitting they found it on reddit and just copied and pasted will be stoned to death by the rest of [chat].
Starting...
if someone tells a joke and I heard it elsewhere I will say so
I don't care if it ruins the flow... deliver the line and then say where it came from
I find it kind of gross to do otherwise. likewise if you were quoting a book and didn't admit it, etc.
That sounds really displeasureable to be around, if I am being honest.
If someone asked if I quoted something, I would tell them. But people are under no obligation to force that fact into a conversation.
I mean, sure. no one is obligated to do anything.
but I mean first of all, if it was apparent that it's the exact same concept as someone else? I'd assume it was a 'reference' anyway and go "oh that's blahblah! nice!"
and that's nice
do that "heh, [comedian]" to the guy speaking and he's like "yeah" and then he goes on is always a neat little moment
but that's not what you said first! You said that he has to deliver the line and then say where it came from even if it ruins the flow which sounds dumb and displeasurable and just intentionally wanting to make the conversation a little less good?
I mean also on top of that you don't get to say you recognize it if he says who it is
it's a nice moment when somebody is like heh yeah I know this one or even like heh yeah I know what website this is from and i'm like oh cool in my head
but if I was gonna go like "this was from dostojevski btw" I am gonna sound like a twat at worst and a bore at best
well I don't care if it ruins the flow, but I also said you can say where it came from after! even after everyone laughs. you need not ruin the flow, but I also think that's secondary to not acting like you came up with something you didn't.
it's this part that is odd to me
if you're having a conversation with someone and they say something that makes you laugh- is your natural assumption, if they don't credit it, that they are claiming authorship?
that is i think the crux of this disagreement
if there is nothing stating otherwise I assume the person came up with what they are saying to me
there's a loooooooooong tradition of things as simple as "ever hear the one about the _____"
I wanna be rude and say that you're kinda stupid if you can't figure it out without that
but maybe I dunno, a minor cultural thing
it's like, I don't have to say, here's a joke, to make it apparent that I am telling a joke
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I mean, sure. no one is obligated to do anything.
but I mean first of all, if it was apparent that it's the exact same concept as someone else? I'd assume it was a 'reference' anyway and go "oh that's blahblah! nice!"
More or less.
Well, no, they didn't directly steal it from the US, not all of it anyway. They had had a nuclear programme going as well, and they did make a very concerted effort to snatch as much of the remnants of the german nuclear programme as possible which helped
all the spying helped, but not terribly much - it was more "ahah so we are on the right track here" than "HOW TO A-BOMB"
the US simply didn't have that great of a lead
i've been doing nick kroll's sly stallone for like 2 weeks cuz i love it
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
You're a widely renowned specialist.
You should maybe just go in to teaching or sumtin
im not great at impressions so
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
I might be like you, except there's never a need because most of my friends will ask, "Where is that from" and/or the teller will say "oh you just reminded me of a bit by [name]" when they're about to launch into some quote.
i dunno
on my computer i have:
battlefield 4
left for dead 2
payday 2
borderlands 2
hmm
this is generally how it works for me too.
Yeah, either it's a reference where part of the fun is that other people recognize the joke or else the person would have been oddly trying to pass off a polished stand-up joke as their own.
So either way it generally makes sense to mention it.
I need a better PC
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Oh, I gotcha, yeah.
and that's nice
do that "heh, [comedian]" to the guy speaking and he's like "yeah" and then he goes on is always a neat little moment
but that's not what you said first! You said that he has to deliver the line and then say where it came from even if it ruins the flow which sounds dumb and displeasurable and just intentionally wanting to make the conversation a little less good?
I mean also on top of that you don't get to say you recognize it if he says who it is
it's a nice moment when somebody is like heh yeah I know this one or even like heh yeah I know what website this is from and i'm like oh cool in my head
but if I was gonna go like "this was from dostojevski btw" I am gonna sound like a twat at worst and a bore at best
And I make sure they know who I'm quoting.
That journalist from The Wire.
endlessly say so many of his 'catchphrases' from lots of characters
I trust you implishitly
i am almost squandering mine by bein gso bad at with mouse and keyboard still
i don't play many vidya these days so it's taking me a while to feel comfortable with something other than controller since that's where i spent most of my life
blat blat blat
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
cracked me the fuck up
dude is funny
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
well I don't care if it ruins the flow, but I also said you can say where it came from after! even after everyone laughs. you need not ruin the flow, but I also think that's secondary to not acting like you came up with something you didn't.
This is kind of different though?
Like I don't think many academics care if some person on the street is telling their friend some crazy thing without citing it. Passing it off professionally is a different thing, but we're not talking about comedians getting paid to go on stage and using others' jokes, which would be a more analogous analogy.
it's this part that is odd to me
if you're having a conversation with someone and they say something that makes you laugh- is your natural assumption, if they don't credit it, that they are claiming authorship?
that is i think the crux of this disagreement
yes this
I totally use info from academic papers in a discussion without citing them.
Your move, Academia.
if there is nothing stating otherwise I assume the person came up with what they are saying to me
there's a loooooooooong tradition of things as simple as "ever hear the one about the _____"
I'm not gonna say where it came from unless anyone has a reason to care
and nobody ever has a reason to believe I am trying to act like I came up with it
There’s a dopamine rush, for a comedian, when you cobble a thought out of thin air, when you arrange words not as a sentence but suddenly, as a joke. A for-real, plucked-from-your-skull joke. Something you created which, when you reach the part you want the audience to laugh at? And then…holy shit! They actually laugh? That’s the spike in the vein that sets the compass for your life.
Well, I’d gotten a taste. I wanted more.
The only problem was, it wasn’t my joke.
In those early days, not only did I perform as many sets as I could get, I watched as much comedy as I could find. The same way a writer has to both write, but also read. Huge bites of both, if they want to hone their voice. I’m sure this is the same in any creative field.
There was a lot of comedy to watch in the late 80’s. Too much, really. Endless cable shows, microphones in front of brick walls, geometric backgrounds, bland curtains. But for me, a suburban kid who had limited access to the city and thus limited access to other comedians to watch and learn from? The Basic Cable Jester Parade was boot camp, college and conservatory, all at the same time.
And, in watching the endless procession of amazing comedians on TV at that time, as well as working a day job and going out at night to do sets, I lived on three hours sleep a day – about eighteen hours, total, per week. And you combine that sleep deprivation with my consuming ambition, plus the fact that the few waking hours I had at home were spent chomping down all of the televised stand-up I could hunt down?
Well, I stole a joke. Not consciously. I heard something I found hilarious, mis-remembered it as an inspiration of my own, and then said it onstage. And got big laughs.
Here it is: “Whenever I’m sitting on a bus, and someone asks me if the seat next to me is free, I have an answer that guarantees no one will want that seat. I look up and smile and say, ‘No one but…The Lord.”
Huge laugh on that one. Pow! Bigger than anything else in my set at the time, that’s for sure.
I came off stage and Blaine Capatch, a comedian friend of mine who’s a never-miss machine gun in terms of quantity and quality when it comes to jokes, took me aside and said, “That’s a Carol Leifer joke, man.”
It hit me just as soon as he’d said it. He was right. It was a Carol Leifer joke. Pretty much word-for-word. I’d seen her do it on A&E’s Evening at the Improv one night and then, during a Diet Coke and Cup o’ Noodles lunch at the law firm I was clerking at, I jotted it down in my notebook as if I’d written it. And then went up onstage and killed with it. At two in the morning, for probably 17 people and no money. But what the fuck did I care at that point? All I was chasing, as an open miker, was the rush – and, I was hoping, paid work. Regularly killing during my sets would lead to that work, wouldn’t it?
In the exact moment after I’d realized that what Blaine said was true, that I’d cribbed a laugh from someone else’s creativity and inspiration, my ego kicked in. And, I mean, my real ego. Not ego’s sociopathic cousin, hubris, which would have made me defensive, aggressive and ultimately rationalize the theft. No, the good kind of ego, the kind that wanted success and fame and praise on my own merits, no matter how long it took.
I said, “Oh shit, you’re right. I didn’t even realize I was doing that. Goddamit…”
“Eh. You do it all the time when you’re starting out. Everyone does. You can’t avoid it. Just don’t make it a habit,” said Blaine, and headed back into the showroom to watch someone destroy, probably, with a rap song about farting. It was the 80’s.
huh; that is interesting
that is definitely not my natural presumption
i only assume they came up with it if it's extremely specific to a situation and given in that sort of reflexive, off-the-top-of-my-head tone
otherwise, i don't really know or think about whether they heard it elsewhere
Part of the distinction comes from how broadly and clearly academic work gets attributed to the author on the front end, though.
Scientists have little reason to mind because to the extent that a broader sweep of society cares about a scientist's work, it's hard for that to do anything but strengthen that scientist's job security during tenure negotiations, salary renegotiations, etc.
It's the opposite with most comics.
I would care not one whit. In fact, I would encourage it.
An academic? I would care because of how the world of academia works, and how citation affects career advancement.
So there's that.
As a principle I look forward to the glorious future in which information of all kinds is freed from any petty legal notion of ownership, which would include any field in which I am involved.
Lastly, I don't think there's a direct analogy to professional comedy from academia anyway, partly because I am sceptical of the probative value of analogies in general, partly because from what I understand the way that comedy works as an industry is rather different to that of academia.
you saying something doesn't imply it's coming from your brain?
I get that we are informed from a ton of different places and certainly you can't follow exactly where each thought comes from enough to map it out for people. and that's not what I'm saying.
but when you're using someone else's exact joke to make people laugh...
maybe this is why I'm terrible at talking to people
You should go a step beyond and claim they're yours.
"Yeah in 1977 I discovered that high-density lipoproteins are protective against heart disease, whatevs."
Starting...
now.
I wanna be rude and say that you're kinda stupid if you can't figure it out without that
but maybe I dunno, a minor cultural thing
it's like, I don't have to say, here's a joke, to make it apparent that I am telling a joke