I Think Ron and Fez Were Ripped Off [Archive]

taylormade

11-19-2005, 01:42 PM

I was listening to the John DeBella Show and they did a bit "In a Perfect World"..it sounded REMARKABLY similar to "Earth 2".....For example, echoey voice that says "In a Perfect World" In a perfect world Mick Jagger would let the homeless sleep on his lips...In a perfect world, the today show host Matt Lauer would come out of the closet.Sounds very similar to Earth 2...just not funny.

Dirtybird12

11-19-2005, 01:49 PM

Lets just say I have a friend who was asked to do a theme song for that bit.my "friend" refused to do the song because it had R&F overtones. 

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11-19-2005, 01:52 PM

Hmmm....I'm trying to think...What could possibly be the common link between the two shows?<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/mikeyboy/Brian7.jpg" border="0" />

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taylormade

11-19-2005, 01:57 PM

Thats just sleazy.  It would be funny to hear DeBella called out on the air for stealing the bit..although he might not even know it was stolen?

Steels

11-19-2005, 02:27 PM

quote:I
was listening to the John DeBella Show and they did a bit "In a Perfect
World"..it sounded REMARKABLY similar to "Earth 2".....For
example, echoey voice that says "In a Perfect World" In a perfect world
Mick Jagger would let the homeless sleep on his lips...In a perfect
world, the today show host Matt Lauer would come out of the closet.Sounds very similar to Earth 2...just not funny. So along those same lines Conan should be pissed at Ron and Fez for "ripping him off" with the same bit? No. 
Comedians are constantly influenced by other comedians, shows and
everyday people.  The difference is keeping the influence just
that, an influence and not a carbon copy with a different, catchy theme. 


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j3lehane

11-19-2005, 02:31 PM

When Ron steals a bit from George Carlin...he credits George in the
next sentence.That's fair,just like crediting a source in a research
paper in school.If DeBella wants to steal bits some R&F callers
should bombard him with calls and call him oput on it until he FULLY
credits R&F     A N D  And,And And Gets permission
from R&F to replay recorded examples of the original to show
DeBella's audience that he stole from the best.It should be Giant Brian
who introduces the bits and spends an entire half hour telling R&F
stories,their history,Brian's contributions,and a history up to the
heart attack. Fair play ,DeBella.OR,would you rather I tell Captain
Janks about your shennanigans?

bobrobot

11-19-2005, 03:18 PM

quote: So along those same lines Conan should be pissed  The Barbarian???<img title="conan the barbarian" height="350" alt="conan the barbarian" src="http://www.pjfarmer.com/woldnewton/conan.gif" width="264" border="0" /> 

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11-19-2005, 03:27 PM

quote: <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/mikeyboy/Brian7.jpg" border="0" />GODDAMMIT!!! Those hookers from Hunt's Point get uglier every fuckin' second!!!I think I know this one, she's a coffee table queen and her name is Briana Carouser!!! <img src="http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y46/bobogolem/boboSkull.jpg" border="0" /> "I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me." Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

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XMRonFez

11-19-2005, 05:30 PM

Maybe they can get Debella's wife on the show... Hoo Hoo...I had no idea Debella even existed anymore.

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11-19-2005, 05:45 PM

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Photoshop Mike

11-19-2005, 06:29 PM

HOLY CRAP! If that's true... Shame on him.. that's the way he repays the boys :( Shame shame shame ( big pointing, shaking index finger) Hmmm....I'm trying to think...What could possibly be the common link between the two shows?<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/mikeyboy/Brian7.jpg" border="0" /><img src="http://scripts.cgispy.com/image.cgi?u=mikeyboy" border="0" /> <a href="http://www.thereisnoradio.com/" target="blank">The Music Mikey Likes Show now on There is No Radio</a> <a href="http://www.ronfez.net/mediastorage/mikey/mikeyshowtheme.mp3" target="blank">theme song</a> by BoBoGolem 

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Death Metal Moe

11-19-2005, 06:49 PM

quote: When Ron steals a bit from George Carlin...he credits George in the next sentence.That's fair,just like crediting a source in a research paper in school.If DeBella wants to steal bits some R&F callers should bombard him with calls and call him oput on it until he FULLY credits R&F     A N D  And,And And Gets permission from R&F to replay recorded examples of the original to show DeBella's audience that he stole from the best.It should be Giant Brian who introduces the bits and spends an entire half hour telling R&F stories,their history,Brian's contributions,and a history up to the heart attack. Fair play ,DeBella.OR,would you rather I tell Captain Janks about your shennanigans? Shut up, and don't tell some Stern fuckface retard ANYTHING about our show or to do us any favors.

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curtoid

11-20-2005, 04:07 AM

quote:<img border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/mikeyboy/Brian7.jpg" /> <a href="http://www.thereisnoradio.com/" target="blank"> 
</a>Come on, GB...you're better than that! errrr...no wait, no he's not. <img width="500" height="375" border="0" src="http://static.flickr.com/32/55926068_a6722fef39.jpg" />I wonder if he found a Keshia sound-alilke to do the opening? 

Hmmmm....after giving this some undeserved thought, it all seems
a little too convenient - too much like a Giant set-up - something that
can't be explained away as coincidence or as him tapping into the
collective unconscious bur is only and obviously a blatant rip-off -
and then reported back to here by a newbie? MAYBE I'm giving
him too much credit, but I wouldn't be at all shocked if Radio's Brian
Carothres posted this himself to get people up in arms over it, or (at
the very least) he knowingly did this hoping it would come back and get
some attention - he was a master manipulator. 
I mean - come on - who listens to Debella?<img border="0" src="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/dry.gif" /> 

This message was edited by curtoid on 11-20-05 @ 12:46 PM

bobrobot

11-20-2005, 10:44 AM

quote:  - he was a master manipulator.  bater... 

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scottinnj

11-20-2005, 10:58 AM

and that is a shame too. If Dabella ripped off Ron and Fez, that just shows you how bad commercial radio is. Jon Dabella used to be the best DJ on WMMR in Philadelphia.
Oh Well. That is why I listen to XM 100% of the time now. Terrestrial Radio is just a borefest. But Dabella used to be one of the best. Too Bad for him.

MilkmanDann

11-20-2005, 11:07 AM

He was and he completely ignored Stern for years on end after his "attacks". Stern acted like he dismantled debella in months when it was really about 5 years, and the guy still had his own audience. Why I really dont mind O&A blasting Stern these days. Woops getting off topic. I really dont see him ripping off R&F, not his way. Captain Janks can suck my balls. Thank you.

Death Metal Moe

11-20-2005, 11:10 AM

quote: He was and he completely ignored Stern for years on end after his "attacks". Stern acted like he dismantled debella in months when it was really about 5 years, and the guy still had his own audience. Why I really dont mind O&A blasting Stern these days. Woops getting off topic. I really dont see him ripping off R&F, not his way. Captain Janks can suck my balls. Thank you. HAHAHAHA!!! Nice!  Please get off topic more often if you're going to attack Stern!  Love it. 

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taylormade

11-20-2005, 12:43 PM

Nope..not Giant Brian.  I just thought it sounded very similar.  You can here it for yourself on the WMGK.COM podcast of the Debella show.  And since I got my XM radio, I listen to very little Philly radio...it just sucks...with the exception of Kid Chris on WYSP..

UnknownPD

11-20-2005, 01:35 PM

Ahh forget it

bobrobot

11-20-2005, 06:19 PM

quote:    You can here it for yourself on the WMGK.COM podcast of the Debella show.  ...it just sucks...  That would be more accurately referred to as a PUDcast...  

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LordRuckus

11-20-2005, 09:36 PM

Actually, I think Howard invented that gag.

j3lehane

11-21-2005, 08:47 AM

Of course Howard invented it,but that doesn't give DeBella the right to
rip it off from R&F.It just doesn't make sense.Howard's version was
called "In the BiZZaRo world(term from superman)". 

This message was edited by j3lehane on 11-21-05 @ 12:51 PM

too4flynchen

11-21-2005, 09:09 AM

What exactly is the conan rip off?  Is it more the echo idea along
with the futuristic soundtrack?  The actual content and idea
behind them are totally different IMO. I actually find the earth 2 bit
alot funnier/wittier.   I try mentally to guess where they
are going with the earth 2 version before it gets out. 


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Stankfoot

11-21-2005, 09:19 AM

I heard Dabella do a bit the other day about how when he was a kid they used to call him "Chubby Bronchitis"....

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Mike Teacher

11-21-2005, 09:33 AM

After music, comedy may be the most incestuous medium I ever been exposed to.Who thought up many of these great bits originally, and mean the great bits of any TV, radio, movie? More often then not, it's not the host or star of the show, it was someone in the back who was throwing out ideas, and one stuck.If we look at music; musicians here will note the 12 bar I-IV-V blues template has been used in what must be thousands of songs. Probably more. Chuck Berry? 90% of his stuff is I-IV-V 12 bar blues, pick a different key, to make it sound a bit different, syncopate it, shuffle the beat, tack on new lyrics and you have thousands of songs out there, all using the same three fucking chords. So...

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11-21-2005, 10:11 AM

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curtoid

11-21-2005, 11:09 AM

quote: After music, comedy may be the most incestuous medium I ever been exposed to. Who thought up many of these great bits originally, and mean the great bits of any TV, radio, movie? More often then not, it's not the host or star of the show, it was someone in the back who was throwing out ideas, and one stuck.  A good friend of mine who does a television show in Austin, Texas (and soon to be on national cable) was recently telling me a story of his days working up the ranks in sketch comedy troops, where he rubbed elbos with all of the current women on SNL - Tina Fey (who says looks nothing like Tina Fey today), Amy Poehler and even went on an "odd" date with Rachael Dranch. According to him (!), when he was just starting up, some SNL writers and performers would participate in judging various contests they were working on, and (again, according to him) several of these characters bits (they later discovered) were later done on future seasons on SNL - two of the more famous ones being "Roxbury" and "Goat Boy." He said he was angry and depressed for awhile, but eventually was able to create his own niche and do his own thing. He's very talented, and honest to a point of coming across as being rude or blunt, so I have no reason to doubt him.  

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yomudder21

11-21-2005, 11:43 AM

Although no one likes to be ripped off, take solice in the fact that SNL stinks on ice and has done so for years.  So no one on that show is getting any good recognition based on the quality of the content in the show.Ashley Simpson was the most talked about thing on that show in the past............at least 5 years.Sad..............Operaman...............BUH BYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

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curtoid

11-21-2005, 01:36 PM

Well, that's always the fear - you pull off something really unique and funny and someone rips it off, makes it less funny, but somehow has the means to get it out there. It's ruined the chances of you ever able to do it, because someone has already peed all  over it.I know it is kewl to bash Stern for "inventing it all," but the truth is ABC did out and out steal "Am I Hot?" show, right down to the laser pointer and Jackie Martling as a cackling judge - thanks to a former E Producer, Scott Depace. If Howard had wanted to shop that around himself, there's no way anyone would want it, because it's already been done and out there, and stunk.And with SNL - don't kid yourself - SNL is still a powerhouse, and the pressure to perform and be funny (and the funniest) is intense.This last weekend I stayed at the communal loft of my former university in midtown manhattan, and the student intern there for the semester got an unpaid internship with SNL. I was able to get stand-by tickets for the 8pm dress rehearsal this last Saturday, and it was nuts - people love this show so much still, even when it stinks. Everyone in line was going on and on about it. It's an institution. Some woman and her family camped out overnight to get the stand-by for the 11pm live show. Even though it was the 8pm dress rehearsal, we still still didn't get in. They let in about 30 people from the stand-by line, and I was about 10 behind them (there was another 50 behind me). Which was cool - it meant I had the rest of the night free. If I had bothered waiting for the 11pm show, I might have been pissed.I'd rather have hope in my soul than soap in my hole...

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Dirtybird12

11-21-2005, 02:35 PM

<a href="http://www.perrynoid.com/mp3/gbrf.mp3" target="_self">a drunk giant brian defends his bit "perfect world" - and discusses this thread on the cosmic circus</a>

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11-21-2005, 02:55 PM

quote: a drunk giant brian  Sounds like GB needs to make a call to AA!!!<img title="AA Big Book" height="468" alt="AA Big Book" src="http://www.aabibliography.com/img/AA.jpg" width="321" border="0" /> 

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j3lehane

11-24-2005, 09:26 AM

I enjoy the parade of ANTICS and general FiDDlinG AbIte..fiddle about fiddle A Bite of Perynoid(and mind infecting songs like FATTY...don't say it or it will repeat all day) and GB with his swaggering and bantering and skull- buggery.http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b44/jr333/BigFatCollage653.jpg

Death Metal Moe

11-24-2005, 10:13 AM

Can we PLEASE edit out these huge fucking crayola messes Jerry puts up?  THey're fucking retarded and he never makes sense.

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suggums

11-24-2005, 08:34 PM

quote:MOECan we PLEASE edit out these huge fucking crayola messes Jerry puts up? THey're fucking retarded and he never makes sense It kinda makes this place into a awful modern art gallery.  I like it. 

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Stankfoot

11-25-2005, 04:07 PM

quote: Can we PLEASE edit out these huge fucking crayola messes Jerry puts up?  THey're fucking retarded and he never makes sense.  its obviously a picture of a square jawed snake. don't you see it?    

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