Comments on: On mashing doughnuts into balls

By: No Fact Zone.Net » The Controversy Rages - Did Stephen Colbert steal a joke from Ze Frank?

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:33:03 +0000

[...] are various links to the story (TVSquad.com, Kleinschmidt) but the link at BoingBoing.net has a quote from Ze himself. Here’s BoingBoing’s [...]

By: David

David — Wed, 09 May 2007 01:18:28 +0000

Hi all,

No one probably cares anymore, but I am a mathematics student, and the donut = torus by smushing joke is about as old as the field of topology itself. More precisely, I have heard that joke well before Perelman proved his conjecture, and before either comedian could possibly have made the joke. My point is that it’s an obvious joke, and there’s no reason to suspect either comedian ripped off the other.

By: jezuzx

jezuzx — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 08:31:15 +0000

colbert stole material from me also, and continues to do it to this day, he thinks he can get away with it, or his writers anyways, but as long as i dont get any credit/$ for my material its war, and i beleive more sand more people need to come out because i beleive he stole it from Ze , and its time for sum damn right payback for this corporate fucks!!! hes stolen loads of material from me i cant even tell u how much, and i wont explain to u what he stole because u wont beleive me, but ill tell u the colbert show been spyin on my damn computer!!!!!!!!!!!! and i want them to stop!!! this is serious!!!

By: newsBreaks.net » The Colbert Report rips off Ze Frank? For shame, if so.

newsBreaks.net » The Colbert Report rips off Ze Frank? For shame, if so. — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 02:19:15 +0000

[...] Xeni Jardin: [...]

By: What’s Ze Brand? « Marketing Nirvāna — by Mario Sundar

What’s Ze Brand? « Marketing Nirvāna — by Mario Sundar — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 07:51:42 +0000

[...] 2. Church of the Customer links to Colbert’s “freaking brilliance on the web“. But is Colbert paying the sincerest compliment to Ze by imitation? – [...]

By: twonaught7

twonaught7 — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:07:03 +0000

I think we all need a life. I don’t have time for this, I have to feed my “Pet Rock”.

By: Stephen Colbert, ZeFrank, a doughnut and a predictable backlash « Angry 365 Days a Year

Tue, 29 Aug 2006 02:12:49 +0000

[...] Anyway, this week, Colbert finds himself embroiled in an Internet storm-in-a-teacup involving ZeFrank and a doughnut. Sharp-eyed WordPress blogger Kleinschmidt who has an interest in mathematics noted that ZeFrank and Colbert made essentially the same joke about the Poincare conjecture, illustrated with a doughnut. ZeFrank’s show featured the joke before Colbert’s. He made a good natured joke about the cynic in him thinking Colbert had ripped off ZeFrank but acknowledging that in all probability it was a coincidence. The blog linked to above contains links to both videos so you can see them for yourself. [...]

By: jimbo

jimbo — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 00:46:54 +0000

Rich got it right. This joke was so basic and obvious as to not even be worth asserting ownership over.

By: Jell

Jell — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:40:33 +0000

why

By: manbeast

manbeast — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 07:29:45 +0000

Dear Mashing Donuts into Balls,

I like to mash bread into balls. I also enjoy mashing Mike and Ike candies into balls.

Signed,

Manbeast.