
isn't there some kind of comedian's agreement not to use other peoples jokes without credit?
If you don't Hale and Pace come and sit on you naked or something
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Wed 7 Sep 2011, 8:54,
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If you don't Hale and Pace come and sit on you naked or something

the Fuhrer was always getting grief from comedians because people come home from a night out and upload the best jokes to sickipedia without credit though
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Wed 7 Sep 2011, 8:57,
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lazy/ungrateful/uncrediting sods
right, I'm off out, toodle pip
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Wed 7 Sep 2011, 9:00,
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right, I'm off out, toodle pip

So it is very likely that several comedians will come up with the same jokes completely independantly.
Although I will swear blind that I wrote "What do you get if you pour boiling water down a rabbit hole? Hot Cross Bunnies" when I was 8 years old
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Wed 7 Sep 2011, 9:02,
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Although I will swear blind that I wrote "What do you get if you pour boiling water down a rabbit hole? Hot Cross Bunnies" when I was 8 years old

explains it pretty well… www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YE9Kthyaco
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Wed 7 Sep 2011, 11:39,
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