Sometimes Cheaters Prosper

Sometimes Cheaters Prosper
Recognize any of Damon Davidson’s non-stand-up? If you saw Damon win first place at the BU’s Funniest Student competition this weekend, you may have found his material familiar---that’s because he stole it. Hilarious!

Instead of doing stand-up in the stand-up comedy contest, dumb, devious Damon narrated a slideshow of graphics from the ready.gov website. The audience laughed hard enough to vote for him, but at least a couple of people knew they had seen this somewhere before…

A quick Google search reveals multiple websites with the same schtick, and some with the exact same jokes.

Damon (ironically) looks remarkably like the greedy, cheating arcade owner Ripley from the BBC miniseries Blackpool. It seems muttonchops make you more likely to do underhanded things. Just ask Chester A. Arthur.

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