The curmudgeonly observations of a 73-year-old grandfather have become one of the site's off-beat successes, attracting more than 730,000 followers.Now Justin Halpern, the 29-year-old who started the account after moving back in with his parents in San Diego earlier this year, has been rewarded for the idea - and his endurance - with a contract with CBS.
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'S--- My Dad Says: sample tweets'
"Son, no one gives a s--- about all the things your cell phone does. You didn't invent it, you just bought it. Anybody can do that."
And from the BBC via the BBC2's The Daily Politics:
Comedian Dan Antopolski has won a prize for the funniest joke of this year's Edinburgh Fringe.
The funnyman, who has previously been nominated for the Perrier award, picked up the trophy from TV channel Dave.
Nine comedy critics sat through thousands of jokes before choosing 27 for viewers to vote on.
The winning joke was a one-liner from 36-year-old Antopolski's show Silent But Deadly - "Hedgehogs. Why can't they just share the hedge?"
The Londoner proved popular with critics and viewers and another of his jokes made the top 10 list.
The Top 10 jokes were judged to be:
- Dan Antopolski - "Hedgehogs - why can't they just share the hedge?"
- Paddy Lennox - "I was watching the London Marathon and saw one runner dressed as a chicken and another runner dressed as an egg. I thought: 'This could be interesting'."
- Sarah Millican - "I had my boobs measured and bought a new bra. Now I call them Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes because they're up where they belong."
- Zoe Lyons - "I went on a girls' night out recently. The invitation said 'dress to kill'. I went as Rose West."
- Jack Whitehall - "I'm sure wherever my dad is; he's looking down on us. He's not dead, just very condescending."
- Adam Hills - "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. You know you're going to get it, but it's going to be rough."
- Marcus Brigstocke - "To the people who've got iPhones: you just bought one, you didn't invent it!"
Well I never.
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8, 9 & 10 couldn't have been that funny...
None of them are funny, mildly amusing, maybe, but then this is 'modern', 'alternative' comedy.
Funny would be watching them lined up and then shot.
Didn't Bogstick kick off about others helping themselves to some 'pacman' joke or other that he claimed to have come up with?? Bit rich, given the above.
In his favour is that fact that he does appear to lothe NuLav and he did air some footage of Tony Blair on the eve of the defeat of that 90-days-without-trial thing they had a go at.
I was riotously drunk at the time but I distinctly remember T.B. looking for all the world like a stimulant junkie on burn-up reentry, scattering insanities like flecks of incandescent heat shield - the psychological equivalent of a mining collapse, and well worth a watch if it can somehow be found.
I've searched and searched for the footage since then and always drawn a blank. It was that late night thing he, Bogstick, did, in any case.
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