Stewart rips off The Venture Brothers

Jon Stewart is such a master of irony, he stole a joke about shop-lifting. The Daily Caller has the scoop on Stewart, who used this rather flat anecdote last night in regard to Sarah Palin’s palm-written speech notes.

“You really need to remind yourself to ‘lift American spirits?’” Stewart asked Palin sarcastically, referring to one of the handwritten notes on her palm. “Unless ‘lift American spirits’ is a note to steal a carton of cigarettes…”

The joke was lifted from James Urbaniak’s Twitter account. Urbaniak voices Dr. Venture on the Adult Swim hit The Venture Brothers and is one of the show’s co-creators.

Gawker made the guess that Urbaniak would play down the controversy, noting that comedians steal from each other all the time. Though I’m surprised Urbaniak wouldn’t take the opportunity to come down on Comedy Central – Stephen Colbert voiced a character on The Venture Brothers for a time, until his own show took off, then he refused to take calls from Urbaniak.

Stewart, in recent weeks, finally took notice of Barack Obama’s reliance on a teleprompter after he brought one to a speech to a group of sixth-graders. It didn’t take him nearly as long to sink his hooks into Palin.

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