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Conan O'Brien's team has decided to settle a lawsuit for stealing jokes in 2015 this week. In an editorial published Thursday, O'Brien defended the innocence of his writers by explaining the code of honor of comedy writers. In addition to murder, there is nothing more despicable than the theft of jokes.
"I've spent 34 years in show business looking for originality," he wrote in Variety. "If, for a second, I had thought that one of my writers had taken documents from someone else, I would have immediately dismissed that writer, presented my personal excuses and proceeded to financial repairs. But I knew we were right.
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The case against O'Brien, TBS and its production company Conaco was introduced by Alex Kaseberg, a San Diego-based blogger, who said O'Brien's TBS broadcast stole five jokes on his Twitter account and his blog.
If his show was guilty, O'Brien suggested in the essay, he would not always be original. In the art of writing topical jokes, comedy writers often imagine the same thing – and that's what happened with Kaseberg, O'Brien explained. He also wrote that in the era of social media – "and apparently 60% of [Twitter users are] Budding comedy writers "- dozens of people often simultaneously write the same joke. It's called "tweet-saming".
He added that his team and Kaseberg had decided to settle the dispute "amicably" and that he wanted to avoid a potentially costly and "ridiculous" jury trial.
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"No inheritance is as rich as honesty," O'Brien said at the end of his essay. "Of course, William Shakespeare now claims that he tweeted this in 1603."
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