Kain Carter, a "youtuber", has been recently accused of stealing the LATE GREAT PATRICE O'NEAL's material and using it as a platform of his perception in his vids on YouTube. This travesty of plagarism has been denied by Carter on his most recent vid, where as, he admitts to spouting off THE LATE GREAT's entire body of work online "sometimes verbatim" as a sort of homage to PATRICE O'NEAL. Saying in short that he (Carter) considers himself a vessel of PATRICE O'NEAL's voice and ideas. Kain Carter was a "youtuber" before this admittance of using PATRICE's ideas/material and a very succesful one at that with almost 100 million views total on his channel. The recent vids were brought into question by long time friend of Patrice, Dante Nero (as seen on TCWCQ).
My hang up with all of this after seeing some of the vids for myself and my knowledge of Patrice as one of the best to ever perform stand up comedy, is this kid has the audacity to say he is a vessel yet only speaks of what is documented already. If Carter was a vessel of Patrice O'Neal, which is complete horse shit, (channeling Patrice) people would say that Carter reminds them of Patrice. To steal and profit is the number one rule you dont break from novice to the greats in comedy. This ability to pay homage, but at first, pass another person's philosophy, another person's essence as your own is blasphemy in the comedy world as I know it. Rules as I see it and have confirmed with other comics is 1. YOU DONT STEAL 2. DONT BE A HACK. Now perception can dictate what a hack really is depending on material or if that person really is a goofy bastard and maybe even gets a pass as long as the crowd laughs. Comics need to eat and other comics see that, but a 2 dollar whore is still a 2 dollar whore and should know their place. Stealing on the other hand deserves the other hand in some countries. The extreme is alittle much but I believe an example must be made in some shape or form. This obivous disrepect to the craft of comedy would only be done by someone who knows hes only as good as his last vid.
The problem these days is people are scared to suck. Scared to bomb. Of course proven stuff works dummy thats why the other person was so successful at it. Whether or not you believe a bunch of people on YouTube knew who Patrice was as a comedian is irrelevant. Those people dont deserve nor ever wanted to hear his work in life because they werent into comedy in the first place. Anybody that knows comedy and is a true fan of comedy knows Patrice O'Neal. Bomb like a man. So you do 100 vids on YouTube at 3 or 4 minutes a piece. The next 100 might suck but so what. You raised your chin and took your lumps.
Truth and Righteous are just words to many but mandate life for others.
...."for the sake of honesty in comedy".....CQ
www.gacomic.com
The problem these days is people are scared to suck. Scared to bomb. Of course proven stuff works dummy thats why the other person was so successful at it. Whether or not you believe a bunch of people on YouTube knew who Patrice was as a comedian is irrelevant. Those people dont deserve nor ever wanted to hear his work in life because they werent into comedy in the first place. Anybody that knows comedy and is a true fan of comedy knows Patrice O'Neal. Bomb like a man. So you do 100 vids on YouTube at 3 or 4 minutes a piece. The next 100 might suck but so what. You raised your chin and took your lumps.
Truth and Righteous are just words to many but mandate life for others.
...."for the sake of honesty in comedy".....CQ
www.gacomic.com
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