Comedian tweeter: Andy Erikson

May 14, 2012 at 7:02PM
(Margaret Andrews — Courtesy Andy Erikson/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

In the Twin Cities comedy scene, Andy Erikson is about as strange as they come. She's got the voice of a chipmunk, an awkward delivery and a compulsion for bizarre observations. For a peek inside her weird world, look no further than the Acme regular's Twitter feed. Instead of describing it, let's just let her do the talking, er, tweeting. One tweet reads: "If you yell shotgun on a bus, you can sit anywhere you want." Another: "One time I snoozed and I won." Oh, and a couple months ago she summed up her entire tweeting output like this: "I tweet as if a crazy homeless man hacked into my Twitter account, to share his wisdom with his disciples."

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