Keep My Name Out Of Your Joke

The ethics of using someone else for your comedy premise

Dave Gutteridge
From the Gutt
Published in
13 min readApr 1, 2022

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Will Smith assaulting Chris Rock on stage.
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I’m almost loathe to write about this, because we now live in a time in which it takes only moments after an event happens for every possible angle and hot take conceivable to be expressed and explored through the hive mind of social media. Assuming you’re reading this sometime close to the end of March or beginning of…

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Dave Gutteridge
From the Gutt

I don't post often because I think about what I write. Topics include ethics, relationships, and philosophy.