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Justin Halpern: Sh*t My Dad Says

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Partner:: Warwick's Books
Location:: Warwick's
La Jolla, CA
Event Date:: 06.08.10
Speaker:: Justin Halpern
Tags:: sitcom; twitter; tweet; meme; humor; viral

Summary: After being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, twenty-eight-year-old Justin Halpern found himself living at home with his seventy-three-year-old dad. Sam Halpern, who is "like Socrates, but angrier, and with worse hair," has never minced words, and when Justin moved back home, he began to record all the ridiculous things his dad said to him.

More than a million people now follow Mr. Halpern's philosophical musings on Twitter, and in this book, his son weaves a brilliantly funny, touching coming-of-age memoir around the best of his quotes. An all-American story that unfolds on the Little League field, in Denny's, during excruciating family road trips, and, most frequently, in the Halperns' kitchen over bowls of Grape-Nuts, Sh*t My Dad Says is a chaotic, hilarious, true portrait of a father-son relationship from a major new comic voice.

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Justin Halpern

Justin Halpern is the founding editor of the comedy website HolyTaco.com and a senior writer at Maxim.com.

Halpern created the Twitter page "Shit My Dad Says," which boasts more than a million followers, and is cowriting and coproducing a sitcom adaptation for CBS.

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01.: On Reading Embarrassing Stories Out Loud

01 min 47 sec

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02.: Knowing the Value of a Dollar

10 min 19 sec

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03.: Father's Day Gift

06 min 51 sec

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04.: Q1: How William Shatner Became the Dad

09 min 40 sec

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05.: Q2: Dad's Reaction

00 min 57 sec

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06.: Q3: Sitcom Episodes Based on the Book

00 min 55 sec

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07.: Q4: No Mom in the TV Show

01 min 35 sec

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08.: Q5: Collaborative Writing

01 min 10 sec

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09.: Q6: Earlier Writing Work

03 min 05 sec

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10.: Q7: Girlfriend

01 min 08 sec

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11.: Q8: Point Loma Schools

00 min 41 sec

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12.: Q9: Religion

02 min 07 sec

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13.: Q10: What Dad Cares About

03 min 13 sec

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14.: Q11: Successful Parenting Style

02 min 46 sec

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15.: Q12: Supportive Mother

01 min 05 sec

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16.: Q13: Conflicting Memories

01 min 59 sec

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17.: Q14: Involvement in the Sitcom

01 min 51 sec

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18.: Q15: Future Plans

01 min 44 sec

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19.: Q14: Influences

01 min 22 sec

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20.: Q15: Favorite Books

01 min 12 sec

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Sh*t My Dad Says: From Twitter Feed to William Shatner

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Justin Halpern, the man behind the Twitter feed-turned-book Sh*t My Dad Says, recalls the negotiations leading up to the feed's next incarnation: a CBS sitcom.

Halpern marvels at William Shatner's similarity to his father, who Shatner plays in the upcoming series.
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situation comedy: Radio or television comedy series that involves a continuing cast of characters in a succession of episodes. Often the characters are markedly different types thrown together by circumstance and occupying a shared environment such as an apartment building or workplace. Typically half an hour in length and either taped in front of a studio audience or employing canned applause, they are marked by verbal sparring and rapidly resolved conflicts.; situation comedy on britannica.com

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