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Australia’s Got Talent comic falls flat without “copy and paste” gags

Updated: Comedian Jordan Paris is yet again accused of plagiarism, this time in his return appearance in which he admitted to lifting gags.

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Wearing an ‘As Seen on Today Tonight‘ t-shirt, Gold Coast comedian Jordan Paris returned to Australia’s Got Talent last night after media headlines that accused him of plagiarism.

But without sourced material, he performed an awkward routine that mocked his last appearance.

“I just sacked my two writers, copy and paste,” he said.

“One of the jokes I used was from Lee Mack.

“It took the US 10 years to find Osama bin Laden but it only took Australia 10 minutes to find out I’m not Lee Mack. Now if I want to do comedy I’ll have to move to Pakistan.”

During his routine both Brian McFadden and Danni Minogue pressed the X button, before he finished by singing the Bee Gees classic “I Started a Joke.”

“I was coming back to take the mickey, show people I’m not afraid to have a joke about myself,” he told host Grant Denyer.

But the judges said his act was uncomfortable. Sandilands even suggested he was better off sticking to other people’s material.

“I don’t care if you ripped off other people’s jokes, you delivered them well,” he said.

Proceeding to the next round of the contest were singer Liam Burrows, dance act Instant Bun and comedian Old Fella.

UPDATED: This story just gets worse. Now Paris is accused of lifting material in his return appearance last night.

“I just sacked my two writers – copy and paste,” he told the audience.

But Brisbane Times says even that joke has also been used before. At the Comedy Central’s Roast of Joan Rivers in 2009 comedian Jeffrey Ross sledged Everybody Loves Raymond comedian Brad Garrett by saying: “This guy has two writers, their names are cut and paste.”

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  1. No comic should be doing another’s material and passing it off as their own. Jokes take crafting and polishing and many many many hours of hard work as well as a comic gift of insight. A five minute set can take as long as six months to assemble. Any fool can retell a joke, same as anybody can describe a book they once read. But we don’t confuse authors with the guy next to us reading the Davinci Code at the bus stop. Don’t confuse hacks with comedians. Also, “The Old Fella” is infamous in comic circles as someone who steals other people’s jokes off the net and passes them off as their own. For a salt of the earth Aussie bloke that strikes me as pretty un Australian.

  2. I felt sorry for him, because the material was not good but he was set up. I dont understand why he did it I think it just made it worse, Perhaps he did well financially from today tonight. He did show some guts getting back on the horse tho

  3. @ Denis: So beautifully put …. my Dad said the same thing about Old Fella … May I copy and paste your comments and use it as my own??? 🙂 Only Joking!!!! 🙂

  4. @David @ Green Point.I agree all but a few of the old fellas jokes I have heard before.
    Seems to me with comedy,wait a few years change the nationallity,gender,hair color or religion and you can plagiarise the shit out of anything.
    Every time what I think is new jpke I tell my old man he seems to remember from his younger years just different detail,same punchline.
    I am surprised some of Paris’s other exploits have not been mentioned,I’m sure I saw him host a documentary type thing on Austar a few years ago about a young talent quest(may be wrong)and his website is a pretty flashy experience even though it doesnt look like it has been updated in 3 years( about the last time I looked at it).
    He is a hopeless self promoter, but seemingly a nice if not slighty deluded young man,who first tried out for Idol at !5 may have even tried the original Kate Cebarano X Factor series.
    Even all this bad press would be good for him as I truly believe he just wants his 15 minites of fame.

  5. sorry, I missed this hoohah cos’ I rarely watch Seven…..so a bloke on a CH7 show retells other peoples jokes but pretends they’re his, then a CH7 show outs him generating huge publicity for the said show that is on CH7. Wow. The real joke is the number of people that have bought into it.

  6. @ Lindy: I do not agree ….
    Are we not allowed to pass on a joke we like to our friends?? I had never heard the jokes before and he made me laugh, that is all I am interested in in this situation.
    Leave the poor bloke alone! He never had a snowball’s chance in hell of doing well last night … not because of the jokes, they were great … because of all the bulls**t that has gone on in the media over the week … it was offensive to me to see how it transpired last night, because of the situation … absolutely disgraceful TV production … he was deliberately set up to fail!

    @ Mac: Great idea!!!! 🙂

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