Andrea Mann

One of the magical things about Twitter is not only the ability to present whichever side of your personality/life/face you so desire, but to also assume an entirely new personality/life/face, should you so desire.

As a result, Twitter is rife with parody accounts which tweet in character as... well, a...

As Marilyn Monroe once wisely remarked: we're having a heatwave.

So what better way to cool yourself off by imagining that you're eating 55 lollies, each with a hilarious joke on the stick? Because that's exactly the sensation you'll get reading our round-up of Twitter funnies this week. Possibly....

Welcome to this week's round up of funny viral videos - and it's a fairly special edition, even if we do say so ourselves.

Because it kicks off with perhaps the sleepiest, cutest pup you've ever seen - and ends with perhaps the most epic YouTube video of...

The life, work and all-round fantastic wonderfulness of author Douglas Adams is being celebrated across the universe today.

The first Towel Day took place on 25 May, 2001 - two weeks after Adams' death - and now his fans mark the event every year, proudly carrying...

The honeymoon of billionaire newlyweds Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan is being marred by Zuckerberg spending every waking hour on Facebook.

"I want to go sightseeing, or even just lay by the pool," the new Mrs Zuckerberg told friends. "But I can't get Mark off his Blackberry for even one...

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg was out on the streets of Britain today launching the government's new range of Social Mobility scooters.

The scooters are designed to take people from less privileged backgrounds to universities and workplaces that would previously have been out of reach.

Each scooter has 17...

The Home Office's desire to end every new civil order scheme with the letter 'o' has resulted in the issuing of 'Dumbos' for particularly stupid crimes.

The move follows Theresa May's decision to ruin the word 'Crimbo' for everyone who has ever used it to mean Christmas.

"This...

Following embarrassment after the Olympic torch went out on just its third day, London 2012 Olympic Games organisers have replaced it with a giant trick candle.

"It immediately relights itself," explained a LOCOG spokesman."We don't know why we didn't think of it earlier."

"Now it doesn't matter if...

The US President has told European leaders that his country will step in to help the crisis in Europe just as soon as it affects America.

“Unless there is a direct act of aggression towards the American economy, we’re just going to stand back and watch it all play...

The government has announced controversial new plans for classes teaching grandmothers how to suck eggs.

“We know from speaking to the elderly, and from the demand for self-help books on egg-sucking, that many grandmothers would welcome guidance," said the government's Grannies' Minister, Sarah Teflon.

"Most grandmothers know how...

This week, Theresa May took a drubbing from the police, Great Britain took the Olympic torch, Rebekah Brooks took it badly, Chris Moyles took the role of Herod, Andy Gray and Richard Keys took home a Sony Award,

People across Britain have been left reeling after cheeky TV favourites Ant and Dec expressed an opinion.

During the BBC's flagship political debate programme Question Time on 17 May, they took part in Twitter's popular #bbcqt 'hashtag game' and tweeted the following:

"I...

The Spanish government called for calm today after it sold off one of its biggest assets, Antonio Banderas.

It appears that the auctioning of the Puss In Boots and The Mask of Zorro star - worth $30 million - has enabled the government to raise the funds...

The BBC faced a virulent Twitter backlash today as thousands of people wrongly believed that Play School was about to be axed - despite it not being on the air since 1988.

"OMG! This is the worst news since they took The Adventure Game off the air last...

So we asked our Twitter followers. We asked around the Huffington Post UK office. Hell, we even dug deep and asked ourselves.

We asked the most important question you could ask, at least on a Wednesday. Not 'What would Jennifer Aniston do?' - but 'Who is your comedy...

Hurrah, and indeed, huzzah. As either Stephen Fry or Hugh Laurie themselves might say. For one of the finest, funniest duos in British comedy history are set to reunite.

On Monday, Fry tweeted:

"When I can" turned out to be Tuesday, when he revealed:

Middle-aged music lovers across Britain have immediately gone off Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon after Prime Minister David Cameron named it as his favourite album of all time.

"It's not fair - it was my favourite album of all time," complained Derek Chivers, 54, of Bromley,...

He's the new kid on le bloque - but how much do you know about the 24th French President? Like the rest of us, we're assuming: very little.

So win friends and influence French people with our handy guide to 10 completely untrue amazing facts you never knew about Monsieur...

Behold a thing of beauty and wonder that may just teach you a thing or two (hundred): the Atlas of True Names.

The atlas does what it says on the tin: marking the cities, countries, rivers, oceans and mountain ranges of the world not with their usual names...

So, that was the week that was. The week that Cameron and Clegg relaunched the Coalition and the Queen relaunched Parliament. The week that Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks remembered to turn up to the Leveson Inquiry, but remembered little else. The...