What’s the Deal with Comedy Central’s Twitter Account?
I follow a number of comedians on Twitter and also a number of comedy publications, so I think it’s safe to say I am generally kept abreast of comedy news, especially when you factor in PR emails and DM-slides with the latest hottest gossip. Which is why I think it’s reasonable that I do not follow @ComedyCentral, and why I have not, until a few days ago, taken a close look at the network’s timeline. Now that I have, I would like to say: How have none of you told me about this?!
Keep track of your charitable contributions, so at the end of the year you can rationalize being mean to a few people.
— Comedy Central (@ComedyCentral) August 31, 2017
The hardest part about being a parent is finding a suitcase that fits all of your kids.
— Comedy Central (@ComedyCentral) August 31, 2017
As best I can tell, there are two people running this account. One of them is your standard social media manager, posting gifs and clips and screenshots of the network’s properties, plugging upcoming programming and old gems:
#YoureARealAdultWhen you get a designated walker. pic.twitter.com/sKsGE1m32E
— Comedy Central (@ComedyCentral) August 30, 2017
The #DailyShow’s @roywoodjr makes the case for removing Confederate statues.pic.twitter.com/DuVeTYA9GB
— Comedy Central (@ComedyCentral) August 31, 2017
But then there’s the other person—or perhaps that first person’s alter ego, the Hyde to their Jekyll, the Peele to their Key—who appears to be an open mic comic: