"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast" -Oscar Wilde |
"The liberal soul shall be made fat, and he that watereth, shall be watered also himself." -- Proverbs 11:25 |
CBS has picked up a comedy project based on the Twitter account, which has enlisted more than 700,000 followers since launching in August and has made its creator, Justin Halpern, an Internet star.
"Will & Grace" creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick are on board to executive produce and supervise the writing for the multicamera family comedy, which Halpern will co-pen with Patrick Schumacker. Halpern and Schumacker will also co-exec produce the Warner Bros. TV-produced project, which has received a script commitment.
The comedy's title will change if it gets on the air.
Halpern, 29, had moved back in with his parents in San Diego, and on Aug. 3 he launched "Shit My Dad Says," a Twitter feed featuring colorful -- often profane -- comments and pearls of wisdom made by his 73-year-old father during their daily conversations.
Some examples:
"Sometimes life leaves a hundred-dollar bill on your dresser, and you don't realize until later that it's because it fucked you";
"Why the fuck would I want to live to 100? I'm 73 and shit's starting to get boring. By the way, there's no money left when I go, just fyi";
"The baby will talk when he talks, relax. It ain't like he knows the cure for cancer and he just ain't spitting it out."
Shit My Dad Says is the second hot Internet property to land at a broadcast network this development season as a potential half-hour series.
Labels: pop culture, You can't make this shit up
He amasses an internet following running toward 1.2 million, then publishes a book then gets a TV deal while not displaying any talent whatsoever while writers of actual talent keep getting form rejection letters from publishers and agents?
Then they're going to take a genuinely funny concept and completely fuck it up by bleaching out all the expletives that make these aphorisms funny?
That's like ABC Family trying to produce The Sopranos. Imagine how well that would've played out.
Meanwhile, how much does Dad make on this hare-brained scheme when all Sonny did was transcribe what he said?
The world no longer makes sense. It's as if God suddenly said Fuck it sprinkled crazy dust on all our heads.