Sh*t My Dad Says
Justin Samuel Halpern, born September 3rd, 1980, is the American author of the Twitter feed ‘Sh*t My Dad Says’ and the best-selling book of the same name. He is also the co-writer and co-executive producer of a CBS television situation comedy series based on the book. His father, Samuel Halpern, M.D., a retired radiologist, is a blunt-spoken man and gave memorable, expletive-laden advice and comments to young Justin from childhood onwards. Halpern had always kept a record of his father’s salty comments, some, repeated to him by brothers, cousins and other relatives, go back to when he was 4 or 5 years old. When he started living with his parents, his record of his father’s remarks became a daily journal.
On August 3, 2009, he started a Twitter feed, @sh*tmydadsays soon after moving from Los Angeles back to his parents' house in San Diego. On the Twitter site he explains, "I'm 29. I live with my 74-year-old dad. He is awesome. I just write down sh*t that he says." He intended it only as a storage site for his father's rhetorical gems, but a friend posted a link to it, Rob Corddry re-tweeted it and by mid-August he had more than 100,000 followers. As of September 2011 Halpern has 2.6 million followers. By October 2009, Halpern had a book deal with Harper Collins and by November he had a television deal with Warner Bros.
