We’re in ur blogpostz, borrowing ur jokez

by Henry Farrell on January 6, 2007

Does the Daily Show owe our former co-blogger Ted Barlow, a writing credit?

Watch and decide …

(“Direct link to video”:http://www.youtube.com/v/BQsMJRUypuM )

{ 12 comments }

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ben alpers 01.06.07 at 9:53 am

I noticed that, too. And the Tinkerbell meme is really, really old (at least by interweb standards).

Should we expect jokes about the Green Lantern on TDS ’round about 2011?

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Henry 01.06.07 at 11:52 am

I thought it was funnier in the original too …

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Micky Vax 01.06.07 at 12:21 pm

this same thing has happened to a publication I work with and the onion (they appear to be psychically chanelling our material). I think it’s usually due to just one writer on staff with weak moral fiber.

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Jon 01.06.07 at 3:31 pm

Tinkerbell is hardly Ted Barlow’s — Atrios has been saying it for YEARS now (and I’m not sure at all it originated with him). The Daily Show probably got it from Atrios, a much more highly read blog and one that has been mentioned on the Daily Show several times (including by Stephen Colbert during the Gannon scandal).

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Henry 01.06.07 at 4:22 pm

ummm jon, the one thing that you have right here is that it didn’t originate with Atrios. If you want to see where Duncan got it from, “look here”:http://atrios.blogspot.com/2004_09_19_atrios_archive.html#109578604967554113 (which isn’t to say that the Daily Show got it directly from CT – but it probably got it from someone, most likely Duncan, who got it directly from here).

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Kieran 01.06.07 at 4:27 pm

Pwn3d.

Sorry, for a minute there I thought this was Unfogged.

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Pritesh 01.06.07 at 5:24 pm

How stupid,

Do you know that two people independently came up with calculus?

Leibniz and Newton

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J. M. Barrie 01.07.07 at 12:53 pm

Um, if we’re going to be giving someone a writing credit here guys . . .

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french swede the rootless vegetable 01.07.07 at 5:38 pm

Ideas are in the air when the times are ripe for them.

Who discovered Uranus, Le Verrier or Herschel?

Of course they couldn’t spy on each other’s works with their telescope tubes, while the Daily Show might with the internets tubes.

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idlemind 01.07.07 at 11:48 pm

So, how much you want to bet that someone used “clap for Tinkerbell” with respect to Vietnam, back in the day? I know I’ve heard it in a variety of contexts (usually concerning a failing business) over the years since I first saw Mary Martin fly…

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rea 01.08.07 at 5:35 pm

“Who discovered Uranus, Le Verrier or Herschel?”

I thought my boyfriend did . . . :(

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Henry (not the famous one) 01.09.07 at 2:52 am

He did it again! This time by repackaging Kieran’s post as “the execution of the Godfather of Soul, Gerald Ford,” or something like that. Call your lawyers!

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