Nov 10 2009Amusing Father Comments Becoming a Show
Ut oh, someone told CBS executives about Twitter, and now they want to get involved. Don't worry; they aren't starting accounts or anything. They're just purchasing the rights to the notion of a dad saying humorous things and developing the funny, popular account shitmydadsays into a sitcom:
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.
Wow, that sounds like it will probably be terrible. But I suppose it makes sense. Television can't survive more than a couple years without seeing Jerry Stiller as a screaming father.
Reader Comments
1. sully - November 10, 2009 3:03 PM
most of the comedy of that blog is from words you can't say on network tv. this show will suck. you can't make a sitcom based solely on snipits of dialogue.
2. tv historian - November 10, 2009 3:12 PM
@1 sully - "you can't make a sitcom based solely on snipits of dialogue"
uh...hello - Seinfeld anyone? (and don't try to argue that those episodes had "plots". A game of solitaire has as much plot as any Seinfeld episode.)
3. bhut - November 10, 2009 3:17 PM
@2: wrong.
And hand in your tv history credentials by 8pm, 7 central.
4. Niki - November 10, 2009 4:18 PM
I read this yesterday and immediately pictured Ed Asner as "The Dad"
5. Nice Pete - November 10, 2009 4:28 PM
I've read through the twitter thing. It's pretty funny, but is there any verdict on whether it's real or not? Are the quotes actually things his dad says, or does he just make them up?
6. brett - November 10, 2009 4:31 PM
I think it is fake, the son is a writer for Maxim. It's all part of an elaborate hoax.
7. Paul - November 10, 2009 8:59 PM
@2 - You're kidding, right? You can say that and actually call yourself 'tv historian' with a straight face? Seinfeld not only had plots, it had some of the most fiendishly clever confluences this side of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
8. shitisay - November 11, 2009 12:03 AM
This might be as successful as that Geico Cavemen show. Yes!!!