Jerry sadowitz attacks offensive comedians – for stealing his material

Scottish comedian Jerry Sadowitz has lambasted comedians who toy with tasteless material, claiming that they "ripped off" his own act without putting any thought into it. In a

characteristically explosive interview with Time Out, Sadowitz claims to have invented the comedy of rampant political incorrectness, and dismisses comedians who have followed suit as

"bullshit", accusing some of outright plagiarism. "With most of them it's not an influence, it is either the lines or blocks of material," said Sadowitz, later

adding: "They haven't thought about it. They lifted a subject, which they've given no thought to, and they've made a flippant gag about it." Sadowitz is famed for

acerbic material on subjects that might be deemed taboo. He insisted that other comedians have stolen his schtick. Speaking before the start of a four-week run at the Leicester Square

theatre in London, Sadowitz said: "I searched very deep to find those topics, and then had to find humour in them, simply because everything else had been done. Paedophilia had not been

done, jokes about pensions had not been done, or necrophilia, or any of these subjects – they're not nice subjects, but I wanted to find something original, rather than just go over

well-trodden territory. "But those subjects have been hijacked. Politically incorrect comedy is no genre: it's me, and it's been ripped off by loads and loads of comics. So,

basically, when I say they're all cunts, I'm not joking." Justifying his offensive style of comedy, Sadowitz argued that comedy, like theatre, requires an audience to suspend

disbelief. "Anything that you hold dear, just put it at the door," he said. "Leave it, and just take on board the material the person gives you from his perspective. You

don't have to agree with it, or believe in it."