Mel Brooks helped kick off Comedy Centrals #Comedyfest a Twitter-based comedy festival yesterday with Carl Reiner and Judd Apatow. Brooks, director of Blazing Saddles, joined the social media network as part of the opening event, during which Brooks and Reiner shared a conversation on comedy moderated by Apatow, and Reiner whos quite active on Twitter led Brooks to start his own account.
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It is very close to thrilling, Brooks said of joining Twitter, according to the Atlantic. When asked again by Apatow about tweeting, Brooks said, Explain what a tweet is. He acknowledged the difficulties in keeping tweets under 140 characters, and mused as he told a joke that hed have to split it up with multiple posts. Tweeting is hard, he said. Youve got to squeeze the joke.
Brooks Twitter account is only one tweet deep, with a post to yesterdays live stream of the panel from the Paley Center for Media in Los Angeles. P.S. Carl made me do it, reads Brooks lone tweet. It was the only #Comedyfest event that will have an in-person audience. The festival continues today with Steve Agees Vine Party, which will share stories in six-second snippets on the new video-sharing platform, Vine.