In honor of my starring my 500th tweet on Favrd.com, I present my rundown of the 10 funniest tweeps in the land.

1. fireland – Joshua Green Allen is the funniest guy I know (of). Other tweeps received more of my first 500 “favrds,” but Josh’s funny ratio is off the charts. The guy only tweets every few days, but every tweet is gold. It’s not for everybody, but I like my humor dark, twisted, and laugh-until-I-cry funny.
2. awryone – 34 of my first 500 “favrd” tweets went to Josh Donoghue. His wife and his daughter are frequent topics/targets (and are apparently either very good sports or they’re clueless about Twitter), and his humor runs to the junior high locker room variety. Another of my favorite genres.
3. tj – Pithy observations on everyday life, with a tasty sprinkling of innuendo. Wouldn’t want to go a day without it.
4. smartasshat – Absurdist comedy and one of my favorite avatars on Twitter, now with a Twitter background to match.
5. farkerpeaceboy – Mining the comic gold in everyday relationships, with some politics and pop culture thrown in for good measure.
6. nostrich – His two bits that are consistently wickedly funny: “Awkward with/around women” and “Stalking the cute barista.”
7. tony_d – Average guy humor that’s always good for a laugh (not that there’s anything average about Tony, it’s just solid blue collar humor).
8. shoesonwrong – The top tweep chick on my list. Here’s a fine sample of Annie’s stuff: “I don’t mean to discriminate, but if you are one of the Easter Island heads, you have to sit in the back row of the theater. Back row.”
9. ccsteff – Now the ladies are showing up in droves. Stephanie is smart, funny, makes superb comedy out of plainspoken relationship observations. If she weren’t a right-coaster, we’d be drinking buddies.
10. superfantastic – Want to know what’s funny about being a teacher? Here you go. Plus, she shares my fondness for the terminating comma. Gotta love that.

Bonus – Hottest Tweeps

Here are the hottest tweeps to scorch the earth. And by hottest, I mean they’re women and they’re funny. What’s hotter than that? I’ve already included the fetching/hilarious shoesonwrong, ccsteff, and superfantastic in my overall top tweeps. These others didn’t score as many favrds, but in many cases only because I haven’t been following them for as long.

1. aedison
2. effingboring
3. emilybrianna
4. ainsleyofattack
5. sunnybucket
6. clapifyoulikeme
7. crispycracka
8. hotheadred
9. marissaneave

For me, it was about halfway into Obama’s inaugural address, as he expressed his hope for peace in this way: “…know that America is a friend of each nation and every man, woman, and child who seeks a future of peace and dignity, and that we are ready to lead once more.”

When was it for you?