In the world of comedy there is no greater sin and joke theft. Comedians have nothing besides their jokes, it's their entire livelihood and when someone steals a joke, comedians do not take it lightly.


In the world of comedy there is no greater sin and joke theft. Comedians have nothing besides their jokes, it's their entire livelihood and when someone steals a joke, comedians do not take it lightly. 


So when late night host Lily Singh read a tweet live on her show, without giving credit to the original writer people took notice. And if that were it maybe people would let it slide, but it's starting to look like a trend and not just a one time thing. 



During an interview with Natalie Portman, Singh quoted a tweet, which got a huge laugh, which she read word for word without giving credit to the original author. Who when they saw the clip called out Lily on Twitter. 



We know it's a grey area when quoting things we've read on the Internet. And we don't know if this was planned or just something she thought of in the moment, but when running a late night show, you should be able to do the leg work required for citing your sources. 


Now things would have stopped there, or should have if Lily really cared about keeping her comedy name clean, but they didn't. 





In this video Lily steals a joke, not just quoting a tweet, but lifts the whole punchline from a prominent New York comedian Mary Beth Barone. 



It seems Mary Beth and Hunter Harris aren't the only two comedians calling out Lily for her joke thievery, because Lily posted this illusive tweet about people coming after her, probably in response to some YouTube take down video.