The Tribune cautioned that, historically, performers like Milton Berle, Lenny Bruce, and Freddie Prinze were also “notoriously light-fingered,” and it revisited some possibly apocryphal stories about W. C. Fields, who was said to have had a vaudeville rival’s legs broken for stealing one of his routines, and Shecky Greene, who refused to play a Las Vegas show until a thieving comedian was thrown out of his audience. The story went on to catalog several
