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Fancy yourself as a bit of comedian? Quick off the draw, are you? Can you tap into key social trends as they happen? Then get onto Twitter, squat a public hate-figure’s name and get to work on making the public chuckle.

Recent events such as Jan Moir’s comments about Stephen Gately’s death and the appearance of BNP leader Nick Griffin on BBC’s Question Time, have given rise to the post-modern, social media funny man. Enter the Twitter comedian.

This breed of comedian adopts a grossly caricatured version of someone their followers love to hate – then followers can follow an imaginary hour-by-hour account of what they’re up to. ‘Lots of job offers coming in. Nick Griffin has phoned twice’ tweeted @janmoir on the day her scandal broke.

After someone in the audience for Question Time’s suggested that they have a whip-round to get a one way ticket to the Antarctic for Nick Griffin, @realnickgriffin tweeted “the South Pole? with the f***ing penguins? those BLACK AND WHITE flightless b*****ds? have you not listened to a word i’ve said?”.

Greater hilarity is guaranteed when the real versions of these people end up having arguments with these comedians on twitter. The careers of these comedians may only last as long as we’re interested in these figures, but this is social media schizophrenia at it most entertaining.