Will And Grace

This has to be a first. Uber popular Twitter account shitmydadsays has already landed 29-year-old writer Justin Halpern a book deal, but today we've learned CBS also wants to make a sitcom out of the musings of Halpern's kooky father. The show will be exec produced by former Will and Grace alums, and Halpern will write and co-exec the script along with Patrick Schumacker. And yes, the title will be changed for television. Halpern started the feed after moving back in with his parents in San Diego, and he quickly learned that people think has father is hi-larious. Some recent gems include: Son, no one gives a shit about all the things your cell phone does. You didn't invent it, you just bought it. Anybody can do that. Nobody is that important. They eat, shit, and screw, just like you. Maybe not shit like you, you got those stomach problems. »
- Devindra Hardawar

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Move over, Al Bundy: A project based @shitmydadsays, the Twitter feed engineered by the son of a cantankerous father, has been picked up by CBS. The creators of Will and Grace are on board as executive producers, with that selfsame transcriber of a son taking writing duties. The microblog’s title will change once on-air, the Hollywood Reporter adds, helpfully. Justin Halpern, 29, has also recently signed a book deal, as the account started in August springboarded to its now more than 700,000 followers. A sample: "Just pay the parking ticket. Don't be so outraged. You're not a freedom fighter... »

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It isn't exactly Texts from Last Night: The Movie -- a concept that I've long-contended would be one of pure brilliance -- but it is something new. Shit My Dad Says, the extremely popular Twitter account from 29-year old Maxim.com senior editor Justin Halpern, is becoming a book -- then it's becoming a television show courtesy of the folks at CBS and the producers of Will and Grace. After 72-tweets and the flooding of over 700,000 followers to the account, CBS seems more than confident that Halpern can take his concept -- based on the fact that he recently moved in with his 73-year old father -- and turn it into the next in a long line of successful sitcoms, along the lines of Two and Half Men and the aforementioned Will and Grace. The feed is based on tidbits of wisdom and observations made by Halpern's father, Sam, throughout the day. Today's »
- Neil Miller

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