The swift downfall of unapologetic joke thief The Fat Jew (real name Josh Ostrovsky) forges new territory on the Internet, where a simple cut-and-paste job often serves as a shortcut to original thought. Most of the time, it’s hard to police occasional Twitter joke lifters. In the case of The Fat Jew, his rampant theft without attribution has been so egregious that the term “schadenfreude” doesn’t even begin to cover Twitter’s delight at this guy’s demise.
Me watching The Fat Jew crash and burn pic.twitter.com/2Fw9kxSZEY
— morgan (@n0thanks) August 21, 2015
In the space of one work week, this guy lost his lucrative development deal with Comedy Central and prestigious representation at CAA. Much of this progress came at the hands of a furious Patton Oswalt. Since losing the little cred he claimed, The Fat Jew gave a delusional interview to Vulture where he sort of admitted he didn’t source things up right, but there’s not a sincere apology to be found. Even if he did apologize, it would be one of those plagiarized apologies so popular with Shia LaBeouf. Hell, The Fat Jew even stole Shia’s game with all this plagiarism.
Shia has said nothing about this incident, but plenty of other tweeters are laughing at how The Fat Jew continued to bury himself with his interview. No one is happier than Patton Oswalt to see this guy go down fast:
The word is "thief." Not "aggregator", "curator" or "commentator." Soulless, creatively bankrupt, greed-fueled shit-lungs thief.
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) August 21, 2015
Let’s get down with what the best of the rest of Twitter had to say following the interview:
https://twitter.com/michaelianblack/status/634721022294421505
In that @FATJEW piece he says, "I come from a writing background." Anyone who claims that about him/herself knows what stealing jokes is.
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) August 21, 2015
According to @FATJEW this is all a big silly misunderstanding that happened because he accidentally got too awesome. https://t.co/AXG7i55SHt
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) August 21, 2015
I unfollowed the Fat Jew years ago because he called me fat. Now I know it prolly wasn't even him :(
— Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) August 19, 2015
One can always count on Kurt Loder to keep his commentary on point.
@BlitznBeans @mattzollerseitz Has anyone ever seen the Fat Jew and blowhard filmmaker Troy Duffy in the same room…?
— Kurt Loder (@kurt_loder) August 21, 2015
Still others expertly mimicked The Fat Jew with a “go-to example of His Good Jokes.”
I acquired part of @FATJEW’s resume. Renaissance man, indeed. pic.twitter.com/mry1FVs3Km
— Sean Gentille (@seangentille) August 21, 2015
Shia LaBeouf will be thrilled to receive some attribution in this scandal.
After reading the @vulture interview I’m starting to wonder if @FatJew and Shia LeBeouf aren’t the same person… #conspiracytheory
— COLIN DONNELL (@colindonnell) August 21, 2015
Many people don’t understand how The Fat Jew rode so high in the first place.
I just imagined a scenario in which the Fat Jew was a WOMAN who stole jokes/got a plus sized modeling contract & chills went down my spine.
— Cameron Esposito (@cameronesposito) August 21, 2015
The Fat Jew's not even funny enough to steal good jokes. I'm mostly annoyed how he got anywhere with that shit to begin with.
— Bill Mc7 (@BillMc7) August 21, 2015
Which school Is giving credit to intern for The Fat Jew? Is filling a bathtub full off pasta a "real world" skill?
— Feyded-Rautha (@ManVsParty) August 21, 2015
https://twitter.com/swarthyvillain/status/634739291361538048
Absolutely no one is defending The Fat Jew, but if they were, he’d probably steal their supportive tweets without attribution.
https://twitter.com/pattymo/status/634762008882188288
What I Learned From The Fat Jew's Vulture Interview: He has to have interns to manage ONE Instagram account of stolen material #CoolStoryBro
— Jenny Johnson (@JennyJohnsonHi5) August 21, 2015
https://twitter.com/LILGOVERNMENT/status/634761206197305344
https://twitter.com/julieklausner/status/633072037385371648
"Did you hear about The Fat Jew?" — Mel Gibson, who has no idea that either Twitter or Instagram exist, telling a joke to his servants
— David Roth (@david_j_roth) August 19, 2015
https://twitter.com/michaelianblack/status/633060758759182336
https://twitter.com/paulscheer/status/633002875568934912
https://twitter.com/kumailn/status/632693387007660032