Chuck & Larry Ripoff Controversy

\nWatching the trailer for Strange Bedfellows, an Australian comedy that came out in 2004, you get the feeling that it was the basis of the idea for I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry. Bedfellows star Michael Caton said as much himself. \n\nAccording to JoBlo, which cites an article in Variety from 2000, which describes an earlier incarnation of Chuck & Larry that was to star Will Smith and be directed by Tom Shadyac, if anything, the ripoff was the other way around.\n\nIn either case, it's a bit like trying to figure out who did one of Carlos Mencia's bits first. The fact that someone with taste that bad chose to steal from you just reflects badly on you. Sometimes I get drunk and pee myself, but when I do, the neighbor kid with Down Syndrome doesn't sue me for royalties.