WATCH videos: Was Kapil Sharma's joke in 100th episode of 'The Kapil Sharma Show' COPIED?

As if his mid-air fight with Sunil Grover and the subsequent consequences weren't enough, looks like there's fresh trouble for Kapil Sharma and the team of The Kapil Sharma Show. Sand-up comedian Abijit Ganguly has accused the makers of TKSS and Kapil of plagiarising his "younger brother bowler joke" from a video that he did on "having an elder brother" around a week ago. 

In a long post on his Facebbok account, Ganguly has alleged that his joke from his YouTube video has been lifted and used in The Kapil Sharma Show. He also mentioned that he got to know about it on Sunday night around 10:30 pm when his friend informed him about the same. 

The comedian has also given the links of his video as well as Kapil Sharma's latest episode "100 not out" with the precise timings.

Here's what Ganguly's post read:

"Important - Lifting of Joke/Plagiarism by The Kapil Sharma Show

Please share this so that it reaches the folks at The Kapil Sharma's Show or Sony Entrainment Television.

I had released a stand-up bit on Youtube and FB on ‘having an elder brother’ around two weeks back. One of the jokes in the routine is an observational joke on how from from Kapil Dev to Zaheer Khan (citing some other names, such as Harbhajan Singh, Srinath, Kumble) all successful Indian bowlers have been co-incidentally younger brothers, leading to the punch of ‘Do you realise how weird it is that India’s bowling strength depends on the fact that elder brothers never let younger brothers ever bat’. I have been doing this bit for over three years now and most people who have ever been to my show in the last three, would have heard this. And modesty aside, many have told me that this was one of their favourite jokes.

Yesterday, at around 10:30 PM, I suddenly got a message from a friend on FB who said that my younger brother bowler joke had been lifted in The Kapil Sharma Show. Someone also tweeted out to me informing me of the same.I was genuinely flustered but still wanted to check before drawing any conclusions. Having checked online, I am disappointed and gutted to see that they have indeed done that.

There I saw Kiku Sharda trying to use my joke (and honestly making a mess of it) while Sidhu and others laughed out in their usual hysterical manner as every cell in my body burnt with rage.

I understand that it’s possible for two people to have the same thought, but this is not that. The fact that right two weeks after I released this bit (which got a decent amount of traction), they just happen to use it while awkwardly trying to use the same examples as premise makes it clear what has happened.

A stand-up bit takes a lot of effort to write and fine-tune. As comedians we strive for originality and after having made all the effort in coming out with a unique observation and building a joke around it, when something like this happens it just deflates you.

We comedians make a living from our self-written jokes. It’s what I depend on to run my house. When you lift a joke I have written, you steal from me. It is as good as stealing my wallet, my watch, laptop or just a goddam robbery at my home.

No Kapil Sharma, plagiarism is not OK. It is not OK to do this. It is not OK to lift a man’s joke and do it on national TV where millions will now think you goddam wrote that joke, and if I am to ever perform it, it comes off as I lifted it.

I am feeling angry, and helpless. I just hope there can be enough noise around this, so that it doesn’t happen anymore with anyone else.

The Kapil Sharma Show Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeKIEXDGIz8
Joke at 52:15

My video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n46dZubAXg
Joke at 3:08

#PlagarismbyTheKapilSharmaShow #plagaristsTKSS"

Here's his full post:

Watch both the videos here and tell us what you feel:

Neither Kapil Sharma nor anybody else from the production team of the show or the channel have reacted to the allegations yet. Watch this space for the updates...