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SH-T MY DAD SAYS: COMING TO A TV NEAR YOU

Several months ago, Justin Halpern (29) had done what many of us consider to be the worst case scenario and moved back in with his parents in San Diego, CA. On August 3^rdof this year, he launched a twitter feed to document the all out HYSTERICAL monologues his 73-year old dad embarcks on. Gems like:

“Son, no one gives a sh-t about all the things your cell phone does. You didn’t invent it, you just bought it. Anybody can do that.”

As you can see, the Twitter feed quickly amassed over 700K followers in only a few months. Hence, CBS came to develop the concept into a family comedy. “Will & Grace” creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick will executive produce and supervise the writing from Halpern to be joined by Patrick Schumacker.

Yes, so what I’m saying here is, Justin went from moving back in with his parents to potentially picking up a TV deal.

I heart the internet.

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