The Fat Jew Lost A Comedy Central Pilot Because He Can't Stop Plagiarizing Comedians Online

Splitsider – The day of reckoning has finally arrived for joke plagiarist Josh Ostrovsky AKA “The Fat Jew.” If you’re not familiar with Ostrovsky, he’s an extremely popular Instagram and Twitter user known for stealing comedians’ work by posting screenshots of their jokes with credit cropped out (here are just a few examples), and he’s inexplicably been rewarded for his years of thievery through big-brand sponsorships, a book deal with Hachette, a Comedy Central script in development, a modeling contract, a line of rosé wine, and most recently getting signed to Creative Artists Agency.

We reached out to Comedy Central to ask about the status of Ostrovsky’s pilot, and a rep confirmed with us that the network no longer has a project in development with him. That doesn’t fix the countless jokes Ostrovsky has and continues to poach for profit, but hopefully Comedy Central is the first of many big companies that decide not to work with him or pay him $2,500 for a sponsored Instagram post.

Here’s the heat from some of the comedians and “comedians” who’ve been KILLING The Fat Jew nonstop on Twitter/etc:

If you’re not familiar, The Fat Jew is perhaps unsurprisingly a hefty Jewish man who originally made a name for himself off being one of those “Whoa ho ho I’m so wacky, look at my big belly and crazy hair” type of guys and then graduated to jacking memes and tweets other people did and posted them to a huge Instagram following. He’s been signed by major agencies, has that White Girl Rosé that girls seem to ironically love, and keeps getting more popular and successful by any metric. And it sucks that a guy with no discernible talents is getting more and more opportunities while some of these lesser known “Twitter comedians” have their work stolen without credit only to see it perform way better because he has a shitload of people following him.

I empathize with the people who had their work stolen with no attribution, particularly given that it happened to me just last week, but, at the same time, I think they’re being a little naive about the whole thing because they’d be just as unhappy if he credited them for their work too. And that’s where the argument falls apart. You think your dumb friend from high school who follows the Fat Jew and likes all his stolen material on Instagram cares about some homely hipster girl with 500 followers on Twitter’s joke about gay marriage? They’d never even see it unless it were plagiarized into their feed. And it’s been like that in entertainment for decades. Most of America didn’t care about black music until Elvis jacked it and gyrated it right into their faces. People didn’t give a shit about the guys who Milli Vanilli lip synced until they saw those two handsome fake Jamaicans brought “Girl You Know It’s True” into our lives. If you’re a Paul Scheer or Norm MacDonald and have actually done things with your career besides punching one liners into Twitter and calling yourself a comedian, then you have a gripe with your material being jacked. But for all these entitled nobodies who have a point but would rather whine about it than worry about themselves, sometimes it’s not just about the material itself, it’s also about having the persona and platform to bring it to people. For better or worse, The Fat Jew has that.

So yeah The Fat Jew is a douche and it sucks that he’s been so successful but anyone who had their stuff stolen whining about it as if they’d be just as successful if they did the same thing is just as big of a fraud. Don’t be bitter, be better. Unfollow The Fat Jew, don’t, whatever, he’ll keep printing money either way. At least now we know there’s still only one fat Jew you can trust: