It's all in the way they tell them, surely?
Apparently there is a certain amount of O NOEZ about standup comedians not writing their own jokes.
And, okay, this is not a form of endeavour I follow myself.
But I cannot help thinking of comparisons, and that there may well be individuals who can come up with jokes but are just hopeless at the telling of them (quite apart from the issue of people earning their crust at being funny and not always being able to come up with the wherewithal themselves).
Just as there are songwriters with voices like corncrakes or an extreme phobia about public performance. Even in the case of singer-songwriters, the definitive versions of their works may be covers by other artists.
Also, that perennial favourite, people who have A Great Idea For A Story, when, actually, it is the writing of it that matters.
I can see that there might be issues of crediting (though I'm not sure how this would work in the standup format, would the comic add a verbal citation after the gag, or what?).
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