Patton Oswalt calls out The Fat Jew for joke theft
August 15, 2015
Patton Oswalt, The Fat Jewish
After an oft-plagiarized Twitter user called out super-popular social media phenomenon The Fat Jew for his history of stealing jokes without giving any credit, A-list comedian Patton Oswalt toook up the cause. Oswalt pummeled The Fat Jew with tweets mocking The Fat Jew's claim that he's a joke "aggregator," and retweeted numerous unsavory comments about him. Keep reading for a full recap, as well as several links to previous stories about The Fat Jew's rise to fame on the backs of lesser-known comic writers–and why the difference between joke aggregating and outright stealing does matter.