In the same category as me were Jim Norton, one of the best comedians working today, and Smosh, the Sacramento based couple that make funny videos that have many orders of magnitude greater views than anything I’ve ever done online… If the award was for the best comedian that uses Twitter of this crop of finalists, then there is a clear winner, and that’s Norton. But if the award is for the comedian that uses Twitter the best of these finalists (and that’s how I believe the award is intended to be viewed), then yeah, I guess I did deserve to win.

Turns out Norton was also a winner, just not at the big NYC ceremony co-hosted by The Daily Show’s Samantha Bee and Jason Jones. When we got in touch with Walker to ask why he was listed on the Shorty Awards website as a co-winner with Norton, it was the first he’d heard about it.

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Samantha Bee doesn’t think the media could handle a KSM trial in New York. “Yes, that’s right, Geraldo Rivera is now the voice of reason!”

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The Daily Show with Jon Stewart‘s husband and wife team Samantha Bee and Jason Jones have a yet to be titled sitcom in works for CBS.

And DL Hughley is going to do a comedy talk show for – wait for it – CNN. CNN? ‘The most trusted name in news’? DL Hughley? Okay. We’ll remain neutral if this cheapens news – but it could cheapen comedy. Any AP story that is forced to bring up Fox News’ Half Hour News Hour, can’t be good for the business of things actually funny.

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