Twitter To TV: 'Shit My Dad Says' User Gets CBS Comedy Deal (PHOTOS, NSFW)

A Twitter user who runs the account "ShitMyDadSays" has just landed a deal to take his Tweets to TV.

CBS has decided to create a comedy project based on the Twitter account, which is run by 28-year-old Justin Halpern.

Halpern moved back in with his parents in San Diego and started the account shortly after. "ShitMyDadSays" is pretty much what it sounds like: it consists of Halpern Tweeting out the funny, off-color, and usually profane things that his 73-year-old dad says.

The quotes are hilarious, offensive, uncensored, and uncut. ShitMyDadSays was ranked one of the 10 funniest Twitterers on the web. Read the Tweets below!

"ShitMyDadSays" has over 700,000 followers and, in addition to the CBS deal, recently landed a book contract.

The Live Feed reports:

"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.

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[joelaf]

03:29 PM on 11/12/2009

The dad's 73, the kid's 28. Been there. When I was 5, I was raised by my grandparen­ts, who were in their 60's. This was in the '60's. They were still in the "do you think cars are a good idea?" mindset. If our phone rang once a week, it was twice too many. Now I'm 50, and I know how they must have felt. That was way too many characters for the twitter-tw­eet, right? Some of the dad's comments were fart-tacul­ar. Too bad Peter Boyle died, he would be perfect as the dad. Maybe Ashton Kutcher as the son?

[radicaljesus]

12:56 PM on 11/11/2009

Hilarious. But I'm betting the guy is a fake, in that he writing the stuff himself, rather than having a mysterious father who used to work in some kind of secretive medicine and doesn't want to give interviews­, ever. But good for the guy, you have to be creative these days when getting yourself noticed.

[UncleLiberal]

11:36 AM on 11/11/2009

Oh I love the cynics and comic geniuses who condemn this young man's project to failure based solely on the headline of a news story. What? oh you actually read some of the tweets? Oh, ok, you're right then. I also love how someone can say that his 15 min are over when they haven't even started yet. I whole-hear­tedly support this young man and the opportunit­y his life has presented to him. To suggest otherwise would be thinly veiled jealousy.

[sja11]

10:43 AM on 11/11/2009

really? I can't wait to see the horrible tv show that comes out of something that is just funny the way it is.

[DevonTexas]

10:34 AM on 11/11/2009

THe old man is a genius!

[ZXT]

09:44 PM on 11/10/2009

Okay I'm a follower now.

[Brendan Cunningham]

04:36 PM on 11/10/2009

So, they're remaking All in the Family? It's about time.

[HarrietteTheSpy]

04:23 PM on 11/10/2009

god this stuff is funny.

[MiriamMaf]

04:12 PM on 11/10/2009

YAY! YAY! YAY! I follow this dude!! good for him!!

[bloodorange]

03:59 PM on 11/10/2009

Wow, this jumped the shark quickly.

[OceanSize]

03:55 PM on 11/10/2009

I don't blame this guy for milking his 15 minutes of fame for all its worth. It's the people paying him that are loony. This show will be pulled before the 4th episode.

What I want to know is: why isn't it Halpern's father that is making all the money???

[hellameangirl]

03:48 PM on 11/10/2009

Ah man! Now its ruined.

[JohnMcGurk]

03:25 PM on 11/10/2009

Yea... those photos are definitely Not Safe For Work.

[lawrencemuh]

03:14 PM on 11/10/2009

SELL-OUT.. let's keep digital technology online.. forget TV..TV is for CAVEMEN!!!­!

[lja925]

03:00 PM on 11/10/2009

700,000 followers and only 72 tweets? That's almost 10,000 followers per tweet. I'm throwing up the Bu!!5hit flag on this one.