Comedy writer Robert Kaseberg has filed a lawsuit against Conan O’Brien, as well as TBS and writers for the Conan late-night talk show, for allegedly stealing jokes from the writer’s personal blog and incorporating them into the redhead host’s nightly joke segments. “And they fought over the armrest the entire flight”.
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The most recent tweet was posted last month, and Kaseberg claims that it was stolen and used in the Conan monologue that same day.
Late-night comedian Conan O’Brien has been hit with a lawsuit from a San Diego man who claims the comedian plagiarized his jokes. “And one could go from a Cul-de-Sac to a Cul-de-Sackless”.
There’s apparently a fourth joke about Tom Brady for which Conan has been sued.
The goal of my call was not to cause trouble, but to suggest that if I was writing jokes so similar (in fact the exact same) to theirs, I should be contributing jokes to the show.
The first joke was published January 14, 2015, on his personal blog and Twitter account, according to The New York Daily News.
O’Brien quipped on his show on February 17, “Surveyors announced that the Washington Monument is ten inches shorter than what’s been recorded. Yet somehow, they spent the whole flight fighting over the armrest”. “Of course, the monument is blaming the shrinkage on the cold weather”.
A spokesman for O’Brien said the lawsuit has no merit and declined further comment. Stolen tweets used for broadcast television requires a different legal process, which is probably why Kaseberg is demanding hundreds of thousands of dollars for actual and statutory damages.
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On Monday, O’Brien’s sidekick Andy Richter tweeted sarcastically: “OH NO WE’VE BEEN FOUND OUT!!” and “There’s no possible way more than one person could have concurrently had these same species-elevating insights!”
