CBS has picked up a new comedy based on the ramblings of someone's father from a Twitter account called Shit My Dad Says. The title will likely change when it gets to the small screen. Will & Grace creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick are behind it so it has some legs.The creator of the Twitter account, Justin Halpern, has become an Internet star. Actually, this is the second Twitter account to get a sitcom, the first being TextsFromLastNight (which is being produced by Sony TV and Adam Sandler's people).
Based on the sample tweets, I can see this actually working as a sitcom where a twenty-something or early thirty-something is forced to live back with his parents. His father would be a pessimistic Larry David or Ricky Gervais character, saying awkward things all the time to humorous effect. I think the only trick would be to tone down the profanity, or perhaps just use bleeping.
This is why I have to start a Twitter account.
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11-10-2009 @ 11:58AM
Jason Yormark said...
Of course it will work considering this twitter account is managed by a writer. You don't actually think there is a real "dad" behind all these do you?
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11-10-2009 @ 12:39PM
dukrous said...
Considering how close the stuff quoted in Twitter is to the stuff my own father has belted out on occasion (despite being 15 years younger than his dad), I'd say the twitter account was being fairly accurate.
11-10-2009 @ 2:07PM
Sour Bob said...
The LA Times profile on Halpern made it seem not only completely reasonable, but almost certainly positive that these quotes from his dad are indeed real.
11-10-2009 @ 3:04PM
nytheatreguy said...
A sitcom about an adult child who goes home to live with his parents. My, how original.
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11-10-2009 @ 7:53PM
WOOD said...
Two questions! If there was a remake of Sanford and Son (ideal cast) would you check it out? Second! If there was a movie with Tyler Perry’s Madea vs. Fred G. Sanford, would that also be a must see? Tribute to Redd Foxx 70’s sitcom Sanford and Son.
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11-11-2009 @ 2:37AM
Sir Yuck-Yuck said...
I am on Twitter and I don't follow this person's tweets, sure his Dad may say some of this stuff but I am sure the Dad has dry spells so his son, a writer, gets a little creative NOR will I watch the sitcom.
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