High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Joke thievery is the act of performing and taking credit for comic material written by another person without their consent. This is a form of plagiarism and sometimes can be copyright infringement. A common term for joke thievery is "hacking", which is derived from the term, "Hack-neyed" (Meaning, "over used and thus cheapened, or trite"). From the Catskill and Vaudeville beginnings of stand-up comedy, joke thievery was common as there were few chances that a performer from one area would meet one from another and a single twenty-minute set could sustain a comic for a decade. Most jokes at the time were one-liners and there was little in the way of proof of a joke's origin, but the value of each joke was immeasurable to a comedian Milton Berle and Bob Hope had a long-standing feud due to Hope's accusation that Milton Berle had stolen some of his jokes. Berle never refuted the claim, but instead embraced the title "The Thief of Bad Gag".

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