Tweeting during the Oscarcast

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on February 21st, 2009

Both Halves of the Staff will be tweeting (via Twitter!) during Sunday night’s Academy Awards broadcast. They’ll be among the “thirty great comedians” that have been wrangled by Comedy.com for the occasion. To follow along and read the torrent of tweets, just go to WatchWithComics, a special Twitter page set up by Comedy.com that will offer a steady stream of real time snark as comedians tweet while watching your favorite shows!

Click on the above link and click on the “Join today!” button (if you haven’t already been Twitter-fied). If you’re already signed up with a Twitter account, just hit the “Follow” button underneath Oscar!

It should be pretty interesting… and quite possibly hysterical!

It reminds us of something that Wayne Cotter did when he had a graveyard shift at the University of Penn’s radio station WXPN, but with a hi-tech twist. Cotter says he would tune the studio’s black-and-white television to whatever dismal b-movie or horror flick was on at the time and invite listeners to follow along at home while he provided real-time snark. I believe he also said that callers were invited to phone in and have a bit of conversation about the pic as well. Everything old is new again.

Among the comedians are Craig Shoemaker, Rob Little, Orny Adams, Al Madrigal, Mark Eddie, J. Chris Newberg, Graham Elwood, Jamie Kaler, Eric Schwartz, Ben Gleib and Bert Kreischer.

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