http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38459 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sat, 18 May 2013 09:06:18 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38459#post-109184 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:24:14 +0000 Quaz 109184@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Neither of you were polite enough to credit me though! Fortunately I employ Big Vern for just these eventualities, so expect a knock at the door soon (hat tip to Viz). </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38459#post-108913 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:41:49 +0000 Username 108913@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><blockquote>Tricky chap, Johnny plagiarism. On the one hand, writers are bound to come up with the same ideas. On the other, it does seem to be good stuff from comments and the one line subs that don't make the subs that are more likey to turn up on TV/Radio, which is suspect. But once a gag is spoken or hits the net isn't it open source? A credit would be polite though. </p> <p>(All my own thoughts. Honest! It's just that I didn't have time to post them yesterday, and now it looks like some bastard has beaten me to it!)<br /> </blockquote><br /> - Me. Just a few minutes ago.<br /> Bastards </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38459#post-108909 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:11:19 +0000 Son of Barnabas 108909@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Tricky chap, Johnny plagiarism. On the one hand, writers are bound to come up with the same ideas. On the other, it does seem to be good stuff from comments and the one line subs that don't make the subs that are more likey to turn up on TV/Radio, which is suspect. But once a gag is spoken or hits the net isn't it open source? A credit would be polite though. </p> <p>(All my own thoughts. Honest! It's just that I didn't have time to post them yesterday, and now it looks like some bastard has beaten me to it!) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38459#post-108906 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:57:27 +0000 godly1966 108906@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>She’s been replaced by one of the extras from Lord of the rings </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38459#post-108905 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:54:30 +0000 waylandsmithy 108905@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I didn't watch it, but have they kept Lauren Laverne? She was completely, completely shit in the first series. Awful. Really, really stank. Dreadful. Less funny than suicide. The comedy timing, and ability to read aloud, of a house plant.</p> <p>Quite pretty, though. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38459#post-108899 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:45:38 +0000 godly1966 108899@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Plagiarism is from the Latin plagiarius meaning kidnapper, maybe 10 O'Clock Live will send round a ransom note demanding cash for the safe return of your jokes? Or they will start posting chopped up bits of jokes in the writers room. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38459#post-108887 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:07:21 +0000 button 108887@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Ctrl C Ctrl V </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38459#post-108863 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:44:32 +0000 Quaz 108863@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Tricky chap, Johnny plagiarism. On the one hand, writers are bound to come up with the same ideas. On the other, it does seem to be good stuff from comments and the one line subs that don't make the subs that are more likey to turn up on TV/Radio, which is suspect. But once a gag is spoken or hits the net isn't it open source? A credit would be polite though. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38459#post-108853 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:53:39 +0000 FlashArry 108853@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Self-abuse and black death ? that sounds a bit <u>too</u> esoteric</p> <p>Try 'Deviant and Arcane Practices' - next chat-room down on the left</p> <p>Bastards </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38459#post-108849 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:32:58 +0000 John Ffitch-Rucker 108849@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Plagiarism - self abuse while looking at pictures of the black death. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38459#post-108845 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:20:47 +0000 Sinnick 108845@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I invented the word plagiarism.</p> <p>Bastards </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38459#post-108842 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:33:39 +0000 Perks 108842@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Did somebody mention plagiarism? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38459#post-108841 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:20:58 +0000 Sinnick 108841@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Hang on, it was my idea of crashing 2 stories together! No-one has done it before I mentioned it a year ago. Except that mine don't usually have hilarious consequences.</p> <p>Bastards </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38459#post-108840 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:07:24 +0000 Vertically Challenged Giant 108840@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Stan, you bastard. I was going to call wayland a bastard and tell him that I was going to say that. All of it. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38459#post-108839 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:01:11 +0000 Stan Laurel 108839@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Wayland, you bastard. I was going to say that. All of it. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38459#post-108838 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:22:22 +0000 waylandsmithy 108838@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I guess it depends on the joke. If you go down the route of 'pick two big stories of the week and crash them together with hilarious consequences', then several people are bound to come up with the same gags at the same time. </p> <p>It seems to be a very common method of writing satire/parody, so I guess it's inevitable. I'd hate someone to think I'd nicked something, so if I think of something that seems a bit obvious then I don't bother developing it in case it comes across as 'samey'. </p> <p>Which is probably why no-one reads anything I write. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38459#post-108833 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:20:19 +0000 ronseal 108833@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Sinnick</p> <p>I know. But if they're going to nick material off here, why don't they be honest about it?</p> <p>Why not give Newsbiscuit a writing credit?</p> <p>They pay people to script their jokes. If the writers are nicking the jokes, surely they're superfluous.</p> <p>All they need is a jokes editor who spends all day hoovering gags off sites like Newsbiscuit. Personally, I wouldn't mind if a gag was borrowed as long as they credited the writer.</p> <p>It's a bit much when the Show's writers are actually paid, and you know they've nicked the material off the web. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38459#post-108832 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:55:57 +0000 Sinnick 108832@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>To start with, the one I posted about Capello and Syria, picked up by simonjmr in his truly excellent FP.</p> <p>To be honest, we've discussed this before: some think it's plagiary, some think it's flattery. For me, it's the latter.</p> <p>I really doubt there's a comedian capable of writing totally original material, all the time. If a joke's written elsewhere, how else am I going to see it ? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38459#post-108831 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:46:18 +0000 Vertically Challenged Giant 108831@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Which gags did they nick? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38459#post-108829 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:32:26 +0000 The All New Jeni B 108829@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Good idea Ronseal.<br /> Not that I'd earn a penny either for myself or the site... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38459#post-108828 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:29:04 +0000 ronseal 108828@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>You know how gag writers for topical shows often nick gags from (sorry, have the same ideas as) Newsbiscuit?</p> <p>Why don't TV producers just officially source gags from this site?</p> <p>Surely, that would encourage more writers to post up gags.</p> <p>And it would save them money too. They could sack the plagiarists and buy direct. Maybe chuck the occasional bone in our/your direction by donating a fraction of the money they would be saving. </p> <p>Come on you comedy fat cats. Pay for your gags, instead of stealing them.</p> <p>If you did, who knows what karmic benefits you might enjoy. </p> <p>People might even start taking your points about 'greedy bankers' a bit more seriously. </p>