I’ve never heard of this Twitter account called “Sh*t my dad says,” but it’s so popular and witty that CBS picked it up for a series to be produced by the creators of Will and Grace. The sayings on “Sh*t my dad says” are really raunchy and funny, and include such tidbits as “I like the dog. If he can’t eat it, or f*ck it, he pisses on it. I can get behind that,” and “Your brother brought his baby over this morning. He told me it could stand. It couldn’t stand for sh*t. Just sat there. Big let down.” The Twitter account has 700,000 followers. The guy who runs it, Justin, is 29 and had to move back in with his parents. He claims that he’s just repeating some of the hilarious stuff his 73 year-old dad, Sam, says every day. I doubt he’ll be living with his dad much longer after he cashes that check from CBS. He already has a book deal.

Twitter sensation Sh*t My Dad Says is headed to television.

CBS has picked up a comedy project based on the Twitter account, which has enlisted more than 700,000 followers since launching in August and has made its creator, Justin Halpern, an Internet star.

“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.

The comedy’s title will change if it gets on the air.

Halpern, 29, had moved back in with his parents in San Diego, and on Aug. 3 he launched “Sh*t My Dad Says,” a Twitter feed featuring colorful — often profane — comments and pearls of wisdom made by his 73-year-old father during their daily conversations.

Some examples:

“Sometimes life leaves a hundred-dollar bill on your dresser, and you don’t realize until later that it’s because it f*#&ed you”;

“Why the f*ck would I want to live to 100? I’m 73 and sh*t’s starting to get boring. By the way, there’s no money left when I go, just fyi”;

“The baby will talk when he talks, relax. It ain’t like he knows the cure for cancer and he just ain’t spitting it out.”

Sh*t My Dad Says is the second hot Internet property to land at a broadcast network this development season as a potential half-hour series.

Fox is developing a multicamera comedy based on popular Web site TextsFromLastNight, with Sony TV and Happy Madison producing.

Halpern, who sold “Sh*t My Dad Says” as a book to Harper Collins last month, and Schumacker are repped by ICM and Infinity Management. Kohan and Mutchnick are with Vision Art.

[From Hollywood Reporter]

This could be funny and original, it really depends on what CBS does with it. The same goes for Fox and Texts from Last Night, which I don’t find that funny in general, but it has its moments.

There’s more on Justin and his dad, Sam, in this profile in the LA Times. Justin works as a writer for Maxim and Sam is retired from a career in nuclear medicine. The ornery foul-mouthed Sam refuses to do interviews and “hates attention.” He seems ok with his son repeating his pearls of wisdom on the Internet, though. Justin explains “He really doesn’t give a crap,” although “I think he doesn’t fully understand it.”