Think no one cared when vaudeville comics recycled jokes? “That’s so friggin’ wrong,” Patton Oswalt told Time. “Vaudeville, as far as comedy’s concerned, was like gangsta hip-hop. W.C. Fields would wait outside the stage doors for guys who would do his act and beat the living s**t out of them.” Here, then, is a list of comics who should maybe watch their backs.
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