Plagiarism backlash caused the network to back out of their deal with the comedian.
A lot of us know who the Fat Jew is, but how many of us know that he steals his jokes? After news broke last Thursday that the jokester had signed a deal with Comedy Central, comedians took to social media to slam him for plagiarism. Comedy writer Maura Quint started the fire with a pretty harsh Facebook post and tweet.
Most of us here know @fatjew is shit, but your FB friends might not. Help them. I wrote this, use or write your own! pic.twitter.com/FFgPpiEtVC
— (maura) (@behindyourback) August 15, 2015
This sparked others, including Patton Oswalt and Michael Ian Black, to express their thoughts on the Internet personality.
Always chokes me up in "Purple Rain" when Prince sings, "Baby I could never aggregate you from another..."
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) August 15, 2015
To me, what makes @fatjew so funny aren't the stolen jokes he posts, but THE WAY he posts them.
— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) August 16, 2015
The Fat Jew currently has 5.7 million Instagram and 255 thousand Twitter followers. It will be interesting to see how those numbers (and his career in general) are affected by this...
