Air American host Cenk Uygur claims that Stephen Colbert stole a joke of his -- centered around comparing Republicans to Klingons. Nerd fight!
Uygur claims he made the joke during a September 7 broadcast, and Colbert made a similar one four days later. He even posted a YouTube video backing up his claims. In it, Uygur says, "As O.J. would say, 'Think you can steal my sh**? Up against the wall motherf**ker.'" Quoting the Juice is never a good thing.
Uygur, who hosts the show "The Young Turks" every morning at 6:00 AM on Air America, even went as far as to say he'll sue Colbert for $65 million -- a number he came up with after reading about a judge who sued a dry cleaner for that same amount after the dry cleaner lost his pants. He joked, "Can you put a price tag on humor?" Neither joke was all that funny, so $65 mil seems a bit much.
Colbert has often engaged in feuds both serious and funny, but his rep had no comment on this one.
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Colbert - half the stuff he says isn't funny, the other half he steals. He's amazingly worthless.
Please. I watched both jokes and even though they both deal with klingons, they are not the same and colberts is much more funnier
OH MY GOD, ARE YOU A GROW ASS MAN OR WHAT.....
QUIT CRYING LIKE A BABY......
He should be glad that more than the two people who listen to Air America heard 'his' joke. Imitation is the best flatter or something like that, right?
Colbert.- If you don't like Colbert you are either not intelligent enough to get him or you are an uptight republican.Either way I pity you.....he's hilarious!
More people would hear it from Colbert. Cause nobody listen to Air America
Cenk Uygur will get a short-term publicity bump, but in the long run he is going to regret this move.
Thats why air america will never take off.
I think there might be more to worry about in todays world than who told what kind of joke and when.
Get a grip Uygur. *rolleyes*
welcome to show business Cenk Uygur . suck it up and come up with something more creative. as Artie Lang would say "wahhhhh!"
1. comedy is theft. pretty much everything funny is at least loosely based on something someone else said first. if comedians didn't steal, dane cook and carlos mencia would not have careers.
2. the joke was obvious. with all that talk about honor, they really did sound like klingons. and the two jokes were different, just based on the same obvious observation.
3. colbert's take on the klingon thing was way funnier. and colbert probably didn't write it. he has a staff who writes things. a very funny staff.
4. the judge that sued the drycleaner for 65 million lost the case, has to pay the drycleaner's legal fees, and may lose his job. this is the guy the radio host is emulating?
well, a lot of nerds would make the klingon connection, so i think he will definitely lose the case, if there actually ever will be one. the two jokes have nothing in common but the klingon "honor". maybe the guy(s) who wrote the jokes are trekkies.
If its so bad to still a joke now and then, Then they should put CARLOS MENCIA in Joke stealling JAIL
