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Conan O'Brien sued for allegedly stealing Twitter jokes

By Tharadjyne Orisma
Host Conan O'Brien appears backstage at the MTV Movie Awards at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live in Los Angeles, California on April 13, 2014. File photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI
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LOS ANGELES, July 28 (UPI) -- Comedians are often under fire for their jokes, but rarely do they get in trouble for taking somebody else's.

However, TBS talk show host Conan O'Brien is getting sued for doing just that, and it is no laughing matter.

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Robert Kaseberg a citizen of San Diego, Calif., filed a lawsuit against The Conan Show, TBS and others on July 22 regarding four jokes he published on Twitter he claims the funnyman used during his opening monologues on-air, the Hollywood Reporter said.

The jokes ranged from Tom Brady and Caitlyn Jenner to the the shrinking of the Washington Monument.

The first joke Kaseberg posted on Twitter was on Jan. 14 that read: "A Delta flight this week took off from Cleveland to New York with just two passengers. And they fought over control of the armrest the entire flight."

Later that day, O'Brien made a similar joke on his show that went: "On Monday, a Delta flight from Cleveland to New York took off with just 2 passengers. Yet somehow, they spent the whole flight fighting over the armrest."

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The latest joke was posted by Kaseberg saying: "The Washington Monument is ten inches shorter than previously thought .... You know the winter has been cold when a monument suffers from shrinkage."

O'Brien's show did a variation of it: "Surveyors announced that the Washington Monument is 10 inches shorter than what's been recorded. Of course, the monument is blaming the shrinkage on the cold weather."

"We at Conaco firmly believe there is no merit to this lawsuit," a spokesperson for The Conan Show said.

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