This edition of Tweets of the Week features some of the best and brightest from Moontower’s class of 2016. For more, subscribe to Moontower Comedy 2016, a Twitter list featuring many of the comics performing at this year’s festival.
I really need to stop looking at my phone so much. My solution is to sleep an extra couple of hours every morning.
— Joe List (@JoeListComedy) April 8, 2016
“What about you, Ian? Do you want kids?
“I dont want them, but I need them.
“Yeah, where would we be without-
“No, I absorb their life force— Ian Abramson (@ianabramson) April 6, 2016
My boyfriend’s cat attacked me. Guess he never heard the saying “don’t bite the hand that jerks off the guy who feeds you”
— Annie Lederman (@annielederman) April 7, 2016
Someone tonight heard my name introduced as “James, a dull man” and I think I finally have a stage name.
— James Adomian (@JAdomian) April 3, 2016
My 8 year old daughter just said “Michael Jordan’s still alive?” I said, “Not inside, honey, not inside.” #ncaachampionshipgame
— The Sklar Brothers (@SklarBrothers) April 5, 2016
If I was a superhero my power would be the ability to sleep anywhere/anytime. Helpful to the world? No. Helpful to me? Yup.
— Debra DiGiovanni (@DebraDiGiovanni) April 7, 2016
Don’t panic, @duncantrussell but I left Sheraton in the sun while I went inside to get some iced tea. I’ll find him. pic.twitter.com/EilNGWShY4
— Brendon Walsh (@brendonwalsh) April 6, 2016
John Merriman has worked with the Moontower festival since it's inception in 2012. He is the co-host of the festival's long-running interview series "Inside Joke" where he has interviewed luminaries including Steven Wright, Maria Bamford and Patton Oswalt. Before Moontower, he spent five years at the Austin Film Fesival as a film programmer where he helped launch the Comedy Vanguard program and the Funniest Filmmaker in Austin series. He has called Austin his home since 1996.
