Comedians show up on Twitter (and tell a few jokes)
Friday, July 1, 2011 at 4:40PM I've noticed an emerging subset of people on Twitter: comics. Over the past 2 years, famous standup comedians took to the tweetscape, initially for promotional purposes. And at first, it was a lot of this:
LouisCK: Okay. Tonight. at 10:30pm. on FX. It's the Season 2 premiere of LOUIE. Please watch it with your face.
Over time, these comedians began to build followings and their colleagues joined the fray. Somewhere along the way (and I don t remember specifically when this was), the 140-character tweet became a challenge: how funny can one be within the confines of 140 characters? This challenge continued to evolve: first, previously established standups began using twitter as a wet stone to sharpen their comedic skills, forcing them to melt down an entire act into short jokes. The influx of standups fostered a community of new comics without audiences who simply wrote jokes all day. Often it was crass stuff, but over the past year, it s started to get a lot of attention. Megan Amram tweeted her way into the writer s room for the 2011 Academy Awards and her own sitcom. Longtime blogger (and parent) Kelly Oxford started to use twitter to hone her joke-writing skills and eventually connected with Jimmy Kimmel and Jessica Alba; now she has a development deal with CBS and over 150,000 followers.
Twitter is often seen as a way to promote work that exists in another medium. For comics and writers who can tell jokes, as it turns out, Twitter is that medium.
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Twitter is a great format for comedians, especially comedy writers. It seems like 140 characters is the perfect space for them to share their sense of humor. I follow all of my favorite comedians. Jiff Gaffigan is really good.
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