Last year I wrote about an episode in the late 90’s where Denis Leary stole my joke. I was obviously angry at the time, but I felt confident that after outing him on the Internet, to literally dozens of computer literate nerds, he would have been shamed into learning his lesson. For good.

Oh how wrong I was!

I sat in front of my television the yesterday evening, working my way through a week of Sky+ recorded programs, one of which is Rescue Me. For those that do not know, it is a drama on Sky One about a New York fire department and their post 9/11 traumas. I am not sure what happened on the 9th November, but apparently it was very traumatic. The premise might not sound funny, but it is.

As I sat there watching, a scene began in which Denis Leary was berating and questioning a Muslim taxi driver about his religion, and all the virgins he was supposed to get in heaven.

“Wouldn’t that be, y’know, a bit useless?” he said to the cab driver, as I sat bolt upright thinking, “Don’t you dare mention having some prostitutes in there!”

“I’d prefer to have a few whores” he continued, before explaining how you would have much more fun than just having virgins up there for all of eternity.

I will concede that once could be an incredible coincidence, I will grant him that, but twice? He is clearly getting his material from here! Honestly, this is just one more way in which Bill Hicks and I are exactly the same, apart from the smoking and the being dead bit.

I fully expect to see an episode later in the series where he accidentally drops a condom on the counter at a supermarket in front of a pretty checkout girl.

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