Keep Twitter Funny: Follow Dave Hill, Todd Barry and Jon Wurster

By on Jan 3, 2010 in Daily Distractions, Twitter | 0 Comments

Do you like to laugh? No? Okay, go here. Yes? Well then, Twitter just might be the social media outlet for you. I know, you’ve avoided it because you don’t need to share your most mundane thoughts or brag or remind the world how incredibly busy you are (FYI, you’re not busy if you’re tweeting about it), but think of it differently. You don’t have to give, you can just receive.

Use Twitter as a convenient vessel for humoring yourself during the day, a little joke feed if you will. In seconds you can set up a Twitter account and follow some of your favorite comedians. Successful comedians work at night and have all afternoon to waste. When they’re not bothering their agents about roles they didn’t get, they tweet. A lot.

Twitter has become the number one (non-Asian-porn) diversion for these nocturnal beings. Many work out new bits in their tweets, some shoot the shit with fellow comics and some use it only to promote gigs (@attell), useful but not as fun for us. Follow a lot at first then pare down based on who entertains you the most. You can even heckle them. But remember, you’re not funny.

Aside: Celebrity Twitterers are boring, yes even Shaq and that guy from that show. Stay away. Until a tweet like this appears, “Demi and I on my Harley, cruising down the PCH… wow, that oncoming truck sure is getting clo.” Don’t follow them.

Back to the funny: I only follow about 10 comedians, and that’s more than enough for my recommended daily allowance of guffaws. Here are my three favorites:

dave_hillDave Hill – @mrdavehill

Life is very unfair to Dave Hill, but he somehow manages to keep his wits about him and documents the pain and misery he must endure being extremely stylish, fit, charming and probably the world’s greatest guitarist. Here are some recent tweets from Dave’s trip home to the parents for the holidays.

Driving back to NYC with my brother, my niece, and my nephew. They won’t let me control the radio. The bullshit never ends!!!

I’m trying to flood the kitchen so my parents will have no choice but to take me out to dinner. Desperate times call for desperate measures!

My dad is playing dramatic, minor key piano music to underscore his disappointment that I still haven’t shoveled the driveway. Not working.

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todd_barryTodd Barry – @toddbarry

Mega-star Todd Barry uses Twitter for two reasons: to remind the world he is very famous and deserves celebrity treatment (very true), and more importantly, to keep other comedians in check with the soul-crushing force of his vicious and venomous Retweets (RT).

“Text’d”? Congrats on abbreviating a word and keeping it the same length. RT @steveagee wow @toddbarry just text’d me…

To: @WholeFoods. Accidentally bought your 365 brand body lotion. Meant to buy conditioner. Please pick up+replace. I’m a MAJOR celebrity.

There’s a new place called ShutTheFuckUp’s. Try it! RT @jwoliner Anyone recommend good Vietnamese sandwiches near silverlake/los feliz?

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jon_wursterJon Wurster – @jonwurster

A newbie to the Twitosphere, this Superchunk drummer and WFMU Best Show guest, makes me LWP (laugh-while-pooping) on a daily basis. He may be a little out there for some, especially the nasty Twitter war he waged against the Pope’s nephew, Craig, but give Philly Boy Roy a chance, I think he’s the funniest guy on the planet.

Now I have TOO many followers. It’s upsetting because I know I’ll probably end up asking them to kill for me. Or at the very least burgle.

I need ten more followers and I will beat Craig Ratzinger. My thoughts go out to his uncle who got tackled by a chick the other night.

Just got my Xmas present from my rich uncle Steve. It’s a gift certificate to Burger King. For $15,000.00.

If you found this information helpful, please follow me: @usedwigs (and unfollow once I start complaining about those stupid Roloff twins). Feel free to tell me your favorite comedians on Twitter too, comment below.

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