He’s one of several funny folks, from Greg Gutfeld to David Cross, who spend more time on Twitter discussing the state of the world than their show in Pomona on Sunday night.
Not surprisingly, followers don’t appreciate this approach either. Take this exchange from Apatow’s Sick in the Head between the director, Jim Carrey, and Ben Stiller:
Ben: I’ll tweet something about Haiti and there’ll be someone who’ll tweet back, “Be funny! Who cares about Haiti!”
Jim: “Who cares about Haiti? Put your penis in your zipper and shut up.”
Ben: “I’m unfollowing you, you’re not funny. You just care about Haiti.”
Judd: I get that for retweeting your Haiti things! “Stop retweeting Ben’s Haiti things!”
Jim: “Who do you think you are, funnyman?”
It makes one wonder why anyone bothers to tweet at all. “It’s distraction,” admits Apatow. “There’s better things I should be doing with my time.”
And for a comedian’s career, there are probably safer ways to spend their time as well.
“It’s crazy that an entire person can be reduced to a few cherry-picked tweets,” says comedian Laurie Kilmartin. “I think in the early days, comics treated Twitter like an open mic, but clearly it’s not. I worry that I’m gonna die after a lame or poorly worded tweet and then that will be my epitaph.”
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