Ellen DeGeneres writer Greg Fitzsimmons is using Cosby’s material in his own routines. It’s unclear whether the aim is to punish the performer or just celebrate honorable jokes Given the allegations against Bill Cosby,can we ever enjoy his jokes again? Should other comedians show them? And has he tainted the artform of comedy itself? These are some of the questions raised by Greg Fitzsimmons, Emmy-winning writer of The Ellen DeGeneres Show and a standup comic, or who has begun to perform Cosby’s comedy routines on stage. “It’s less heinous a crime for me to be stealing his material than what he did stealing from all those women, Fitzsimmons told Esquire magazine. In his interviewer’s words: “It’s using comedy’s most verboten act [ie, joke theft] as a means of defending it from a man whose crimes contain spoiled our memories of his canonical work.” Related: It took a comedian to call Bill Cosby to account Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com