Twitter is pretty ubiquitous these days. It seems like almost everyone’s got an account and comedians seem to LOVE the free service. It’s certainly got a lot going for it: it’s rapidly growing in popularity, it’s easier to maintain than a blog or website, and 140 characters seems to be just the right amount of space to squeeze in a good joke now and then. Additionally, if you’ve got a pretty substantial fan base (or you’re trying to grow one), Twitter can be an easy way to stay in touch and interact with your fans.
With all sorts of funny people hopping online it can be tough to keep track of them all, so I’ve made a list of 100 essential comedians you should be following on Twitter. Undoubtedly you’re following some of these people already, but hopefully this guide will help fill in the gaps.
Stand-Up
Saturday Night Live Cast and Writers
Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone
The Office
Community
The cast and crew of Community are also huge fans of the service, going so far as to create fake accounts for their characters and doing an entire “Twitter†episode before this season’s premiere episode.
DERRICK Comedy
It seems natural that the guys who shot to Internet stardom on YouTube would take their talents (truly awful puns and all) to Twitter.
Human Giant
All four Human Giant alums, who have since moved on to fry bigger fish, tweet often and tweet funny.
The Daily Show/Colbert Report Writers and Performers
Hallie Haglund
OGs Steve Martin, who finally hit the Twitter scene a few weeks ago and has been killing it since Misc. Tom Scharpling and Jon Wurster, hosts of ‘The Best Show’ on WFMU, and writers for Tom Goes to the Mayor and Tim & Eric. Paul Feig, creator of Freaks & Geeks Eric Appel, writer, director and producer of many fantastic Funny or Die shorts Mike Drucker, writer for SNL and the Onion Todd Levin, writer for Conan O’Brien Rob Kutner , writer for Conan O’Brien Bill Oakley, former Simpsons showrunner Seth Morris’ pitiful Bob Ducca character is a regular at the UCB LA Theatre and his feed makes for a beautifully tragic read Ryan Simmons is a freelance blogger, and assistant video producer at Asylum.com. He performs regularly in New York City with his improv group Rocky Vee.