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Joke Thief
The complicated rituals involved when one writer steals another writer's material.
Robin Williams, the frenetic actor and comedian who died a few years ago, had a habit of stealing jokes. Young comedians would complain that he'd show up at their shows, laugh along with the audience, and then a few days or weeks later would appear on widely-seen television chat shows and effortlessly drop their material into his conversation...