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Personally speaking, there a few gems on this list.

I always found Anthony Jesselnik to be highly derivative of Tosh.  Comedy Central has a bad history of cloning a hit show as many times as possible.  After Chapelle hit it big CC had this epiphany, "Man, racial humor is sooooo big," and then they hired Carlos Mencia

How do you know she is the one?
I heard her humming Mr. Shankly.

I listen to the Smiths
Translation:  I am a middle-class, college educated, white person who happily embraces my eccentricities.  Cuz I listen to this band, I'm super deep.  The world isn't fair because it does not recognize how unique I am.  Oh, the burdens of being me!

Am I the only one who is going to admit that the first string of huge Black Eyed Peas singles was decent pop masquerading as hip/hop?  I was 12 at the time, but "Where is the Love" is one of the more thought provoking pop songs of the Bush era.  Will I Am, as thick as he became, compared the C.I.A to the K.K.K in a

DJesus Unchained Sketch ripped off Robot Chicken big time.  In the latter, Jesus rises from the dead to exact revenge against the Easter Bunny via a Kill Bill parody.

As someone who also really like Nirvana, I find with each passing year, from age 13 to age 21,that  Cobain's personal/political/life philosophies were vague and confusing and not in any positive sense.