Shit My Dad Says Starring William Shatner
Yes, the headline says it all. Twitter sensation Shit My Dad Says is now about to complete it's meteoric rise from zero to internet famous to full-on media giant. Regular readers of my blog know that, for a long time, I have felt that the Twitter posts seen on Shitmydadsays are fake. Enough has been written about this thing that, while I now no longer think the posts are all total fabrications, there is some creative license going on with this.
Anyway, the creator of the feed, Justin Halpern, is a co-founder of a humor site called Holy Taco and was a writer at Maxim before he moved back in with his dad and, much like picking up dog shit and finding a gold mine in your back yard, Halpern started quoting his dad on Twitter and became internet famous overnight.
Anyway, the thing has gone from being a Tweetsation to getting a huge book deal to getting a TV deal to, now, having William Shatner cast as the curmudgeonly elder Halpern in the Shit My Dad Says TV show. CBS had optioned the property and it was developed by the creators of Will and Grace. Shatner is a decent choice for this. Had they gone too crusty it would have called to attention the obvious parallels between this ad All in the Family. Seriously, should Shatner ever refer to his son as Meathead, then the gig will be up.
You know, a lot of my bile towards this project comes out of my own frustrations. I admit it, I'm jealous. I have been running my publishing company and working creatively in comics for almost 25 years. The recession is killing me, literally killing me and the only thing keeping my company going right now is stubbornness. I see something like Shit My Dad Says become a giant thing and I have to wonder if there is any point to working hard at all. I don't know Justin Halpern and I have no ill feelings towards him. But Shitmydadsays, like Axe Cop, kind of proves that it's better to be lucky than good.
So, hat's off to you Jason. You either stumbled into a pot of gold, or you pulled the wool over everyone's eyes with your big hoax. Either way, congratulations to you as you get to be the latest example that blind luck trumps out hard work every fucking time.
And, oh yea, to the person who posted on my blog that I was an idiot for not believing Shitmydadsays was real, seriously go check yourself. Is it harder to believe that postings by an (albeit at the time unemployed) professional comedy writer might be made up than it is to accept that all these witty saying by Justin's dad all manage to come in under 140 characters?
Whatever.
Anyway, the creator of the feed, Justin Halpern, is a co-founder of a humor site called Holy Taco and was a writer at Maxim before he moved back in with his dad and, much like picking up dog shit and finding a gold mine in your back yard, Halpern started quoting his dad on Twitter and became internet famous overnight.
Anyway, the thing has gone from being a Tweetsation to getting a huge book deal to getting a TV deal to, now, having William Shatner cast as the curmudgeonly elder Halpern in the Shit My Dad Says TV show. CBS had optioned the property and it was developed by the creators of Will and Grace. Shatner is a decent choice for this. Had they gone too crusty it would have called to attention the obvious parallels between this ad All in the Family. Seriously, should Shatner ever refer to his son as Meathead, then the gig will be up.
You know, a lot of my bile towards this project comes out of my own frustrations. I admit it, I'm jealous. I have been running my publishing company and working creatively in comics for almost 25 years. The recession is killing me, literally killing me and the only thing keeping my company going right now is stubbornness. I see something like Shit My Dad Says become a giant thing and I have to wonder if there is any point to working hard at all. I don't know Justin Halpern and I have no ill feelings towards him. But Shitmydadsays, like Axe Cop, kind of proves that it's better to be lucky than good.
So, hat's off to you Jason. You either stumbled into a pot of gold, or you pulled the wool over everyone's eyes with your big hoax. Either way, congratulations to you as you get to be the latest example that blind luck trumps out hard work every fucking time.
And, oh yea, to the person who posted on my blog that I was an idiot for not believing Shitmydadsays was real, seriously go check yourself. Is it harder to believe that postings by an (albeit at the time unemployed) professional comedy writer might be made up than it is to accept that all these witty saying by Justin's dad all manage to come in under 140 characters?
Whatever.
Comments
Your work over the years has inspired art to come to the world from what was considered in our younger years, just a kid thing. I personally hope I can one day look at my family and know they were well raised, taken care of and I was respected even by total strangers for being myself.
Hats off to you.
Titus
You should invite duchebag, weaner, blog flamer to a hockey game. He can play mid ice defense. Then unleash the 14 yr old "A" league team on him.
I still dont know how they managed to scar me through my skates. I am not a strong skater. I swear I have a slapshot that makes Happy Gilmore's look pro style. But I have a incredibly center of gravity and a sneaky stick. ;)