How far would you go to defend a dirty joke about having sex with a pumpkin?
Comedians Ryan Hoffman and Nick Ruggia spoke with Variety about their claims that recent “Saturday Night Live” segments “Pumpkin Patch” and “Pound Puppy” plagiarized two of their sketches that were uploaded years earlier to the YouTube channel for their comedy troupe Temple Horses.
They consulted a lawyer and sent NBC a letter detailing the similarities in the work but were told that after an internal investigation, no wrongdoing was found. Feeling as though they had little legal recourse, they took to the press.
“For the record, we don’t want to be talking to you — no offense,” Hoffman told Variety. “We’re doing this because we tried to handle this in a professional and quiet manner, and it didn’t work to our satisfaction, so it’s not like we want to be out here burning down the world.
Comedians Ryan Hoffman and Nick Ruggia spoke with Variety about their claims that recent “Saturday Night Live” segments “Pumpkin Patch” and “Pound Puppy” plagiarized two of their sketches that were uploaded years earlier to the YouTube channel for their comedy troupe Temple Horses.
They consulted a lawyer and sent NBC a letter detailing the similarities in the work but were told that after an internal investigation, no wrongdoing was found. Feeling as though they had little legal recourse, they took to the press.
“For the record, we don’t want to be talking to you — no offense,” Hoffman told Variety. “We’re doing this because we tried to handle this in a professional and quiet manner, and it didn’t work to our satisfaction, so it’s not like we want to be out here burning down the world.
- 3/19/2019
- by Elaine Low
- Variety Film + TV
“Saturday Night Live” is being accused of plagiarism by New York City comedians Nick Ruggia and Ryan Hoffman. The two comedians are the founders of sketch comedy troupe Temple Horses and routinely post video sketches to their YouTube channel, which boasts over 3,000 subscribers. Ruggia and Hoffman allege “Saturday Night Live” sketches “The Pumpkin Patch” and “Pound Puppy” were plagiarized from their sketches “Not Trying to Fuck This Pumpkin” (uploaded October 2014) and “Pet Blinders” (uploaded September 2011).
Both “Pet Blinders” and “Pound Puppy” center around a fictional product that prevents pets from watching their owners having sex. In a letter Ruggia and Hoffman sent to NBC last month (via Variety), they write each sketch uses “[three] separate settings for pet-interruption, introducing the pet owners’ dilemma.” Both sketches include a dog’s-eye-view perspective, a labrador retriever, a mid-size dog, and a custom-breed dog. As for “Not Trying to Fuck This Pumpkin” and “The Pumpkin Patch,...
Both “Pet Blinders” and “Pound Puppy” center around a fictional product that prevents pets from watching their owners having sex. In a letter Ruggia and Hoffman sent to NBC last month (via Variety), they write each sketch uses “[three] separate settings for pet-interruption, introducing the pet owners’ dilemma.” Both sketches include a dog’s-eye-view perspective, a labrador retriever, a mid-size dog, and a custom-breed dog. As for “Not Trying to Fuck This Pumpkin” and “The Pumpkin Patch,...
- 3/15/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
“Saturday Night Live” aired last October a sketch about a pumpkin patch where the employees, much to the consternation of the proprietor, engage in sexual intercourse with the product. “The Pumpkin Patch” was lewd, funny, and seasonally appropriate. But according to Nick Ruggia and Ryan Hoffman, it was something else — theft.
Ruggia and Hoffman are the founders of the sketch troupe Temple Horses. Since their first collaboration in 2011, the two New York comedy scene veterans have filmed more than 60 sketches together, many of which are available on their YouTube channel, which boasts more than 3,000 subscribers. Ruggia and Hoffman claim that two of those sketches, “Not Trying to Fuck This Pumpkin” and “Pet Blinders,” were plagiarized by “Saturday Night Live.”
“Imagine, one day you come home and it looks like somebody’s robbed your house,” Hoffman told Variety. “What do you want from that situation? We feel like somebody took our stuff,...
Ruggia and Hoffman are the founders of the sketch troupe Temple Horses. Since their first collaboration in 2011, the two New York comedy scene veterans have filmed more than 60 sketches together, many of which are available on their YouTube channel, which boasts more than 3,000 subscribers. Ruggia and Hoffman claim that two of those sketches, “Not Trying to Fuck This Pumpkin” and “Pet Blinders,” were plagiarized by “Saturday Night Live.”
“Imagine, one day you come home and it looks like somebody’s robbed your house,” Hoffman told Variety. “What do you want from that situation? We feel like somebody took our stuff,...
- 3/15/2019
- by Daniel Holloway and Elaine Low
- Variety Film + TV
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