Comedy Poster

Comedy Poster
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Motto: The Noble and Silver Show
Release date:	2001
Rare Values
Category:	Arcane Rares

The Comedy Poster

The Comedy Poster is a Arcane Rare poster on Habbo. This poster is a reference to the Noble and Silver show, held at the Edinburgh Festival 2001. Performances in satirical and post-modern comedy by Kim Noble and Stuart Silver, it was a popular and well reviewed show. The poster was released to coincide with the Noble and Silver campaign that was held in the original Theatredrome, which subsequently featured an added Applause banner with moving curtains on stage. Not much is known about the campaign or why the poster was given out and appeared in the hotel. The name and description was 'Comedy Poster' and 'The Noble and Silver Show' respectively.

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  Theatredrome during Noble & Silver campaign

Release

Its exact origins are unknown, although it is believed to have began circulating on Habbo.co.uk in 2001, possibly via scripting. Staff attempted to remove this item some time after its release, but instead of removing it completely, they only deleted the image. After the poster was deleted, it wasn't able to be placed in a room and was left in users Hand as a no icon or PH block. If the poster was placed in a room before it was removed, it was viewable on :Furni as a no icon poster.

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  Comedy Poster as No Icon in gissberg's room

Long running theory is that the Comedy Poster was deleted by moving the poster from ID 1 to ID 1000 and the ID 1 poster was replaced with Ancestress poster. Meaning all the original Comedy Posters would have become Ancestress posters.

However, when trying to confirm this, it is likely that this wasn't the case. Posters were originally released on Habbo.fi in April 2001 and bit later on Habbo.co.uk in August 2001. Comedy Poster also seems to refer to the Noble and Silver Show held in August 2001. Therefore it is highly likely that the Ancestress has always been at ID 1 and Comedy Poster at ID 1000.

In addition, posters were split into three groups in the code: global poster (ID 1 and forward), UK poster (ID 1000 and forward) and FI posters (ID 2000 and forward).

- The low ID posters are the regular posters that have always been available in Catalogue (Skylines, Butterflies etc).

- The UK ID posters are: #1000 Comedy Poster (The Noble and Silver Show! ad), #1001 Prince Charles Poster, #1002 Queen Mum Poster, #1003 UK Map, #1004 Eid Mubarak Poster, #1005 Johnny Squabble (D Mac ad) and #1006 Jack-o-Lantern (Hoot ad).

- The FI ID posters are: #2000 Map of Finland, #2001 Rug on the Wall, #2002 Guy With Glasses, #2003 Carlos, #2004 Rastaman Poster, #2005 Infobus (EOPH ad), #2006 DJ Throne (Ezkimo ad), #2007 The Father of Habbo (DJ Esko ad) and #2008 Habbo Cola Poster (Mountain Dew ad).

Since Comedy Poster has never been released on Habbo.fi (along with Prince Charles and Queen Mum + the other UK posters has only been released in special occasions), it is logical that the Comedy Poster has always belonged to the 1000 ID range.

It is more likely that the existing posters were deleted from the owners since they were broken furni after the deletion of their original image - instead of turning them into Ancestress posters. However, no 100% info is available.

The rumor of moving the ID from 1 to 1000 might originate from Retro Hotels source files. There is at least one retro source code where Comedy Poster is present at ID 1. However, the same source code features Comedy Poster at ID 1000 too. There could be version where it is only at the ID 1. Source codes of old retro hotels are many times used to find lost info and images. Back in the old days retro makers were one of the very few scraping Habbo data. Unlike nowadays when multiple fansites have automated systems to scan new furni, badges and other changes. Retro source codes aren't 100% reliable since they can be modified by the makers but they can give some general idea of how things were.

PatrickPacard's Comedy Poster

PatrickPacard's Comedy Poster is the only known existing copy nowadays. In 2020, ex-staff Jeff aka notMiceElf commented on Twitter that the account was one of his staff accounts. Therefore no regular user is known to have a Comedy Poster.

“	“Ha. That was one of my accounts so not a real user (none of the items will ever leave it). Mostly used it for hearing the community from a non-staff perspective. And the rooms were likely all made for ads.”
	— Jeff (@jstehney)

When asked more about the poster, he replied:

“	“I’m not too familiar with most of the items history to be honest. I’m fairly certain though that the current visuals are something I made after the originals were deleted. I likely put it in the room to check that it updated.”
	— Jeff (@jstehney)

Meaning this is probably the only remaining copy of the poster since it is created after the original ones were deleted.

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  PatrickPacarda's Comedy Poster

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  Jeff commenting Comedy Poster on Twitter

Known Owners

Here are confirmed owners and known examples of the Comedy Poster on Habbo.com.

Owner	Quantity	Updated	Notes	Room - (Clicking link will open room in the client)
PatrickPacard	1	30-July-2020	Banned	100%
Total	1

See Also

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