Sketch comedy troupe (and future stars of Fuse) Whitest Kids U Know are claiming that Budweiser stole one of their sketch ideas for a Super Bowl ad - specifically a sketch about how slapping is replacing bumping as the guy greeting du jour. Between How I Met Your Mother's "Slap Bet" episode and all the "slap fights" on YouTube, I'm not sure anyone gets to claim slapping as intellectual property. You can't stop the zeitgeist.
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2-07-2007 @ 12:00PM
why not the LS2LS7? said...
Was the Bud commerical funny? Cause this isn't. I can't imagine Bud would rip off a joke this lame and a skit this belabored. If they did, they're geniuses for seeing the potential for comedy in this dreck.
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2-07-2007 @ 12:50PM
bd said...
Well that's not the same thing.
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2-07-2007 @ 1:04PM
wes said...
The answer to the question is No. No they did not rip it off. And I agree w/the comment above. Neither of them are funny.
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2-07-2007 @ 1:41PM
ferley said...
the whitest who??? I bet Bud never even heard of these guys until monday!!!!
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2-07-2007 @ 2:42PM
Stephen Bittman said...
Well, looks like there IS indeed a smoking gun. Just read about it on http://www.theapiary.org
On another note The Whitest Kids U' Know are absolutely hilarious. You can get a free mp3 from their new album here.
http://www.whatarerecords.com/whitestkids/discography.html
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2-07-2007 @ 2:55PM
bd said...
That comment's not suspicious!
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2-08-2007 @ 12:45AM
GhaleonQ said...
Um, though the group clearly lacks polish (the "belabored" comment certainly fits, as does the "these idiots don't know what a contraction is" one), the construction and timing are clearly top-notch.
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2-08-2007 @ 7:31PM
Rob J said...
Anything's possible. But who would take credit for such a lame skit? Oh, Nike stole my idea for making basketball sneakers. Where's my money?
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3-14-2007 @ 12:39AM
Amak said...
Hey, the guys from 'The Whitest Kids U Know?'shouldn't be complaining considering they stole their entire marketing campaign from rivalBrooklyn based sketch comedy group, ITTV (it'stwisted television) http://www.myspace.com/itstwistedtv
Note,that the promotional shots for ITTV used (check photos to see what iam talking about) were created for their 3rd season, almost 2 yearsago!!
Its pretty lame, that with all the marketing budget a showpicked up by
Fuse must have at their hands they need to steal otherpeoples ideas to
be funny. Totally LAME!
I'm not going to watch it.
http://myspace-738.vo.llnwd.net/00541/83/79/541449738_l.jpg
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5-02-2007 @ 6:04AM
MReprogle said...
Actually, they didn't steal the idea from a Brooklyn based comedy show. Trevor (the main guy in TWKYN) did a previous sketch comedy show before The Whitest Kids. I think it was in Boston. In other words, he just took his previous idea, moved to New York for a bigger audience, and got the show on national tv by doing it.
If Twisted TV was so funny, why didn't it get picked up by FUSE??!
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