Ok, I need to rant for a sec:

There's this guy I know....I met him when I went away to an "acting camp" when I was 14.  We were fast-friends and buddied around for a year.  We didn't live anywhere near each other, so our friendship was short-lived.  He was a good guy though.  I really liked him.

So a couple of years ago the guy sends me a Facebook request.  I hadn't heard out of him for years and years and years.  Once we reconnect, he informs me that he's living in my town, and within a km of my place.  We say we have to go out for drinks.  It took a year, but we finally went out for beers. (this was one year ago from right now).

We went out and it was ok, but a couple of things bothered me.  We were talking comedy and writing (mutual interests).  I'm a bit of a comedy snob unfortunately, so when he mentioned a few specific things (i.e. his opinion that Bill Cosby is as cutting edge as anything these days), it kind of put me off.

Then I made a remark about how I recognized one of his Facebook status updates as a joke that he lifted from somewhere else.  (he regularly updates both his Facebook and Twitter with humourous jokes).  He went on to explain that he sees nothing wrong at all with taking another person's jokes and "rewording" them in order to pass them off as one's own original jokes.  I told him that I STRONGLY disagreed.  It kind of put a pall over the whole reunion.

Since then, no more meet-ups.

I still read his Facebook stuff.  I'm sure that most of the 'funny' things he writes are actually his, but I'm just as sure that many aren't.  I don't trust him.  I've recognized his rip-offs.  Once, he posted a joke that Conan O'Brien made on his Twitter.  It went: "My son asked me where babies come from so to distract him I said "some day we're all going to die".  My friend posted it verbatim on his wall, with no credit.  I wrote a comment that said: "When  your son asks what plagarism is, just point at yourself.", or something like that.  My comment was removed.

Anyway, I try to avoid reading his shit now because it really pissed me off.  But the other day he wrote something about Harry Shearer saying something stupid to him on Twitter.  I hadn't even thought to look up this guy on Twitter before, so I checked him out.  Then I saw this convo he had with Harry S:

"I write comedy too, see...."  Oh, you ALSO write comedy, just like Harry Shearer?  Oh wait....no, you re-write OTHER people's comedy, see.

Grrrrrrr.  This shit really pissed me off.  Especially the comments he gets from all his friends who think he is some sort of hilarious comedy genius.  Their comments almost make me more mad than his bullshit status updates.

Today:  one of the people I follow on Twitter is the hilarious Josh Hara (@yoyoha).  Here's one of his tweets from this morning:

Within the hour, here's Buddy's status update on Facebook:

Funny stuff!

Anyway, just had to get that off my chest.  Please feel free to have at him; if strangers suddenly start calling him out, maybe he will stop.  That would be great.