Denver, CO — New local comedian and podcast fan Mike Homelie received a standing ovation for a few jokes he performed about CBD, which shocked the other comedians also performing on the show.
“He’s never done that well before,” said Miles Poneman, a comedian who is also an avid consumer of comedy podcasts. “I feel like I heard the same thing on Rogan a few weeks ago. In fact, I looked up the podcast episode where one of Joe Rogan’s comedian guests made some humorous off-the-cuff jokes about CBD. This guy basically regurgitated exactly what was on the podcast.”
Homelie celebrated his breakthrough with a victory lap around the venue, during which he offered everyone in arm’s length a high-five.
“Man, the jokes just come to me,” Homelie claimed when asked how he wrote such piercing, succinct jokes. “It might be something totally different from last time, depending on which episode of JRE I just heard. I get inspiration everywhere, from everyday experiences to something a distinguished guest like Joey Diaz said. It depends on my mood.”
The Homelie incident reminded Miles Poneman of another incident earlier in the year when a comedian “did a sketch from the podcast Comedy Bang Bang verbatim, doing different voices for the different people performing on the podcast.”
According to Poneman, that comedian later copped to the theft in a lengthy Facebook post where they claimed that jokes weren’t really intellectual property.
“They proudly were like ‘anyone who thinks they own the jokes they write, perfect and perform for years are just unfunny wussies’ and I took issue with that,” the comic confessed. “It took me three years to write a decent joke about the difference between Uber and Lyft.”
Mike Homelie was not available for comment at the time of publication for this story. When The Bringer tried to reach Homelie for comment, we were promptly blocked on all platforms.
By Chris Hudson.
The Bringer 