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   Bethany Black (bethanyblack@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Nov-2023 16:43:14 JST Bethany Black

   Because I’ve not been on Twitter now for nearly 18 months an interesting thing has occurred; none of my jokes have appeared word for word on Last Week Tonight. Whichever writer for the show followed me there does not follow me here.

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     Bethany Black (bethanyblack@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Nov-2023 17:54:10 JST Bethany Black

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     • Chip Butty

     @otfrom it’s more annoying when someone on here does it, apart from when an animated sitcom where the showrunner and head writer followed me and took an entire bit of stand-up and made it a B-plot and never said anything. That was really annoying. Made me look like a dumb thief

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     Chip Butty (otfrom@functional.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Nov-2023 17:54:12 JST Chip Butty

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     @BethanyBlack is it more annoying when a nobody on here plagiarises you or when a paid writer on cable TV does? (not that either will be great)

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     eighthourlunch (eighthourlunch@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Nov-2023 21:48:31 JST eighthourlunch

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     @BethanyBlack At least Jimmy Fallon is open with his crowd sourcing and credits the authors of the tweets he reads on the show. But they know what they're participating. It's kind of hit and miss, though.

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     Bethany Black (bethanyblack@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 17:47:19 JST Bethany Black

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     • eighthourlunch

     @eighthourlunch this is just a writer in the writer’s room who has to come up with X number of jokes in a subject who’s felt the stress and either nicked it directly without telling anyone, or just remembered mine. If the producers found out they’d be in a lot of trouble