Justin Samuel Halpern was born in September 1980. He graduated from San Diego State University in 2003 where he was a pitcher on the baseball team.
After school, he moved to Hollywood to work as a screenwriter. In 2009 he was a writer for Maxim magazine's online publication. He had recently moved back home to San Diego and launched a Twitter account where he would write down funny things his father said. The account @ShitMyDadSays became extremely popular.
He soon signed a book deal with Harper Collins and a TV deal with Warner Bros. As of June 2014 his Twitter account had more than 3 million followers. He co-wrote the 2010 book Sh*t My Dad Says and the book topped the New York Times Best Seller list for eleven weeks. It stayed on the list for more than fifty weeks and sold over a million copies.
CBS picked up a sitcom based on the book titled $#*! My Dad Says that starred William Shatner. Halpern then writes for Grantland.com and wrote a book called I Suck at Girls in 2012. The book this time led to the Fox show Surviving Jack. He also wrote and produced for the series Cougar Town in 2013.
