**NY Daily News BLIND ITEM 8/13**

BEN WIDDICOMBE'S GATECRASHER

Which marquee actor/comedian is known in the industry as a serial
stealer of younger comics' material? His manager has to regularly send
out checks to head off litigation.

Duke...

This is interesting...Robin Williams comes to mind but I've watched him
for years and never seen him use someone else's material that I could
identify. I used to watch any and all comics for many years....it was a
major hobby... and was familiar with a whole array of their stuff. I
have seen Lewis Black do material that was basically the same as some
of Bill Hick's stuff but I like Lewis and don't want him to be comedy
thief.

Neptuna...

Gibert Gottfried has referred to Robin Williams as the most
"absorbent"comedian ever.

Hester Mofet...

Coming from the most annoying, untalented comic ever. I guess we know
Gottfried doesn't steal anyone else's material.

Hester Mofet

polar...

I've never seen Lewis Black as an actor. Has he been
in any movies? Does he count as a "marquee" person?

Duke...

I don't know if he's that well known as an actor, but he's popular ( if
that makes any sense). I've never been to one of his shows that wasn't
sold out and he's in three upcoming movies...including one with Robin
Williams! He better watch out for his stuff, if what is written in this
thread turns out the be true!!!

I'm thinking it has to be one of the Saturday Night Live
guys - Jimmy Fallon maybe, or perhaps older guys
like Adam Sandler?

Reality's bitch...

Robin Williams. He's been doing it since the mid-70s, and nipped many a
career in the bud. Once an audience hears something coming out of
Robin's mouth, they're not going to believe he stole it. "You" do it,
and everyone will assume "you" are the thief]. His voices are Billy
Lucas and Mark McCollum. Mark was also the "originator" [late 60s/early
70s] of Elmer Fudd doing Led Zepplin, etc. A LOT of his other stuff
[ie, the now-hack schizophrenic argument] is Lorenzo Matawaran. Much of
his pregnancy and baby stuff is Karen Babitt. Personally, with his
track record, I'm not surprised he drinks...Rb