what a pile of douche..

Comedian Not Laughing Over Columbia Graduate’s Speech

The congratulations offered by the comedian Patton Oswalt to Brian Corman, the Columbia University 2010 School of General Studies valedictorian, in a Twitter message on Tuesday were hardly heartfelt: the online video linked to in that tweet showed that Mr. Corman had appropriated material from Mr. Oswalt’s standup routine in his valedictory speech, drawing an apology from the student and an admission by the university that it was “deeply distressed” by the incident.

On his Twitter account Mr. Oswalt, the “King of Queens” and “Ratatouille” star, wrote: “Congrats to Columbia University valedictorian Brian Corman! Great speech.” The tweet included a link to a YouTube video of Mr. Corman’s speech, given May 16 at the Class Day ceremony for the university’s School of General Studies.

In the speech, Mr. Corman, a political science major, shared a story that seemed to come from his firsthand experience about attending a “Physics for Poets” class and a student who challenged a “Star Trek”-theme question on an exam.

Mr. Oswalt has told a similar anecdote in his standup comedy. The Web site TrueSlant.com posted video of Mr. Oswalt performing his “Physics for Poets” routine in 2006.

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here is the dirty plagerizer.

here is oswalt's actual bit..

this jerk gives poly-sci majors everywhere a bad name..