The kind of person who gets their friend a vibrator, didn't buy them a gift certificate for housecleaning; thinks, 'wow she needs to get her mind off her filthy kitchen' 'She's going to need serious distraction, like VR... or a personal-massager from sky-mall.'
First of all, good eye. Second of all, I usually never respond to trolls, but I'm up late, and had to go through my clips to find one that didn't make me wanna kill myself, and obviously I saw your comment. (I also never go on RU-vid, for this reason.) But since you seem to know comedy, I thought I'd let you know where this joke comes from. In 1998 I had a platonic male roommate name Andrew Gartner. I was messy. One morning, I woke up, and he was drinking orange juice out of a little red cup. We were broke students, so I figured it was just part of our collection. (Of four cups.) Later, when I went to put away the Yahtzee game that I had left out while smoking weed til 4am with friends, I couldn't find the dice shaker. Because it was now a dish. My jokes are not so much created, as they are pieces of my life. I'm sorry you think I'm a thief. This clip was taped in 2010, and I actually have a recorded set from the Punchline in San Francisco in 2005 where I opened with this joke, and Jim was the headliner. He was lovely. Bought everyone brunch that day. I saw no sign of that joke in his act, nor did he say anything when I did it on stage. I think we may just be two comics that play Yahtzee. Sometimes, that happens.
Based on your note, it looks like Jim ripped you off! Now I have to go comment on his youtube that Christina Walkinshaw wants HER yahtzee shaker joke back! I wholeheartedly apologize and understand more about parallel thinking and how it's not "stealing". I found your clip after reading your blog, which is very good, and wanted to check out your comedy since I'm a standup fan. Having watched "Beyond the Pale" a few times I was familiar with the Shaker joke. I'll delete the comment if you want. Thanks for the education on how you came up with the joke.
