Still think there’s like a 30% chance I dreamed that Seinfeld episode where Kramer puts the Merv Griffin Show set in his apartment
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In his latest special Seinfeld displays 45 years’ worth of legal pads, allegedly containing every usable joke he’s ever written. This sort of gesture is really tempting fate if there are people out there he has bought material from.
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I got a $50 check in the mail from a fairly famous comedian once, with no explanation. Later I was watching one of his HBO specials and he did a joke of mine. But then he topped it with a much funnier second punchline of his own. The pros are _much_ funnier than I am.
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His $50 for my joke bought my silence. That was a generous payment out of the blue, especially because this Top Dozen or So comedian was merely using my okay joke to set up his better joke.
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My vague impression is that stand-up comics these days try to impose a cartel-type rule against other stand-ups employing joke writers, to keep one stand-up from monopolizing the business the way Bob Hope did.
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As Mark Steyn noted, Bob Hope made his joke writers into part of his rather postmodern shtick: "I just put together my earthquake survival kit: canned food, bottled water, and a half-dozen joke writers." But now comics are supposed be all artisanal about their small batch jokes.
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