CBS is hailing its impending comedy “$#@! My Dad Says” as the first to have been inspired by a Twitter feed.
But its big name star is not one to tweet.
“I don’t Twitter. I can’t even remember my password name,” Shatner says. “I have problems with electronics. So what I’ve done is I’ve hired a young man out of college, whose very fingers are the extension of computer keys and he Twitters.
Shatner, 79, says he’s had a “growing and glowing experience with Twitter.
“This show is born in a Twitter. We are all atwitter. The show is a viral show. It is in my limited imagination, an electronic miracle. It’s a show that stems from the culture of now, not yesterday, but now. This is a show that is in front of the curve, wave.”
He had trouble with conjugations from the word Twitter, referring at one time to “people who Twit.”
But he had a stronger alliance with the word that rhymes with twit that is bleeped from the show title.
“It isn’t a terrible term,” he says of the S word. “It’s a natural function. Why are we pussyfooting?”
“$#@! My Dad Says” starts Sept. 23 on CBS.