comedian doug stanhope says comedians work this out.ed him about this because he's a libertarian. here's a sample of his work. >> they say if you give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. if you teach a man to fish then he's got to get a fishing license, and you couldn't even cook the fish because you needed a permit for an open flame, and then the health department is going to start asking you a lot of questions about where are you going to dump the scales and the guts. john: as i said a libertarian comedian. doug joins us now. you don't need government to protect your jokes? >> so, yeah, no no, comedy's a really good self-policing artform. if you go to an open mic and want to get into the business, if you're stealing someone's jokes you are going to be outed and publicly shamed and run out of town. john: and yet robin williams was known as a joke stealer. >> huge, yeah milton berle and robin williams probably the two legendary. john: they weren't run out of town. >> there's the anomaly that slipped doubt cracks legendary stories from th