I don't know who the comic geniuses are behindReal_Mel Gibson, but when it comes to Twitter humor, it's the form at its best. First you have a wonderful subject: the bigger-than-life Hollywood star who has self-destructed before our very eyes, thanks to the tapes of his chest-heaving rants and threats against his ex-girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva. But when it comes to humor, Twitter is the Web's own version of a sitcom, allowing us to follow a character as it takes on new and different comic dimensions. The humor is all in hearing what Mel Gibson would've said or thought about a particular topic, but in his own voice, or at least the voice that we imagine hearing from a sadly self-destructive star in eclipse. And yet it's simple: All you need to know about Gibson is that he's had problems with booze, women and his self image--and all the jokes make perfect sense.

One tweet, for example, simply said, "Do we really have to call it that?" It was followed by a link to an IMDB post about Edward Furlong's estranged wife obtaining a temporary restraining order against the actor for leaving threatening voice messages on her phone. The article's headline: "Terminator Star Restrained for Pulling a Mel Gibson." Another recent tweet provided a link to the Twitter topic: "#wordsthatleadtotrouble," adding what Mel would've surely thought were the words that applied to him: "Honey, do I hear a tape recorder in the background?"

Here's a few recent Real_MelGibson tweets that best capture its barbed comic sensibility. All you have to do is imagine hearing Gibson saying them:

-- I regret saying the Jews are responsible for all history's wars, OK? But they ARE responsible for Vampires Suck. And that's worse.

-- Whoever said "Money can't buy everything" didn't have enough of it to accurately make that statement. Trust me. I own a Kangaroo.

-- They say you learn something new everyday. Today I learned that you CAN overdose on Flintstones Vitamins...It takes 6 bottles.

-- You know why we can never have a woman President? Well, let's just say, it wasn't men that made Eat, Pray, Love #2 at the Box Office.

-- Either I just took too many mushrooms or Gollum from Lord of the Rings is actually sitting on my couch watching reruns of the sitcom Coach.

-- Just got some blood drawn. Doc said he'd never seen such a high alcohol to blood concentration. I was like, You should see me on a weekend.