An open letter to the writing staff for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

Jimmy Fallon Writing Staff,

First off I want to let you know that I am a fan of Jimmy Fallon.  Not really a big fan, but a fan none the less.  Since he first showed up on SNL I’ve always found him funny.  Because of this; on the off chance that I am awake to watch his late night show, I will.  Last Friday night (September, 25 2009) I was up flipping through the channels and stopped on NBC once I saw he was on.  He had just finished up his opening monologue when he started to do one of his thank you note bits.  Before I continue, I want you to read this blurb from my blog (www.kduce.com) that I wrote on April 30, 2009 (click here to read the entire post)…

“If you are wearing headphones and can’t hear yourself fart, it doesn’t mean that no one else can.  I was waiting for the bus the other day and this guy had his headphones on and was rocking out.  I was behind him as we were walking on the bus and he dropped a loud fart and just kept rocking out as if nothing happened.  If someone driving a semi truck runs over a kid but didn’t see it because he’s up so high from the ground; it doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.  Say excuse me!”

Now, take a look at this clip of the bit from the 9/25 show (the bit begins at roughly the 5 minute and 30 second mark of the episode).  You will see that the thank you note that Jimmy wrote to the guy farting while listening to his iPod is eerily similar to the joke that I wrote above… 5 months ago.  Also I find it to be quite a “coincidence” that in this same bit he does a joke that has something to do with standing at a urinal, when in my same post on 4/30, I have a couple of jokes about urinals.  Again, my headphone fart and urinal jokes are in the same post and Jimmy’s headphone fart and urinal jokes are in the same bit.  Again, mine was first.  Again, I write jokes about farts and urinals.  

So I am not coming right out and accusing you of plagiarism.  All I am saying is the similarities are there and very apparent.  If one of you did come to my site and use one of my jokes I highly doubt that would admit it.  I rarely see the show, so I have no idea if this is the first time this has happened.  For all I know you have been coming to my site and ripping off my silly commentary ever since the show started.  (I will be looking in to this by the way)  Aren’t you professional comedy writers?  Is it that difficult to come up with a few jokes every day for Jimmy to spit out on the show?  If it is, I would be more than happy to come up with jokes to use on a daily basis, but only if I am put on the payroll.  How did you come across my site anyway?  It’s not like my site has hit the big time and is the talk of New York.  I probably average about 10 hits a day.  Come on, tell me the truth.  Were you the person who Google searched “hidden urinal camera” and were disappointed to get to my blog rather than a site that allows you to watch some guy take a pee?  Then, when searching around for the pee videos that are obviously not there you ran across a couple of jokes and thought to yourself, “Hmm, Jimmy hasn’t been using much of my stuff lately.  I’ve got a little writers block.  These seem funny enough.  This K-Duce guy will never have any idea…”  Then you wrote the jokes down, re-worded them a bit, gave them to Jimmy and went right back to searching the web for pictures and videos of guys taking a leak.  I’m close, right?

In closing, I want you know that I am not mad.  I just feel like I should be compensated if you are using my blog as a well when your own joke ideas run dry.  I work a job that I would leave at the drop of a fart if you would like me to come out to New York and join your writing team.  Most of all I am just looking for honesty.  I have sent Jimmy a FaceBook message and sent an email to the Late Night blog team.  I have still not heard back.  I was really hoping to keep this issue between us, but because of your lack of a response I was forced to post this letter on my blog and share it with my other 6 readers.  Well them and any other pervert who happens to be searching for “hidden urinal cameras”.  Please respond soon or I will have to find other means to get this information to you and anyone else for that matter.  I wish you the best of luck with your show and look forward to hearing from you.

Kyle

Chief Editor

www.kduce.com