Comedy news: Ross Noble's twitter campaign slays dragon

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Ross Noble's twitter bombard campaign has claimed another victim after targeting Dragon's Den entrepreneur Duncam Bannatyne.

The Scottish millionaire 'twitter bombarded' by hundreds of outlandish business ideas by Noble's twitter followers some of which included £20million to genetically modify trees to make them easier to climb and a butter spreader shaped like a pritt stick.

Each week Noble asks his team of twitter followers to bombard a different person who has a certain amount of twitter followers, whether they are a politician businessman or celebrity.

Earlier this year the Geordie comic targeted MP Merry McCarthy - the government's Twitter Tsar  - who, once she worked out what was going on,  managed to turn tables on Noble by replying to hunsdreds of silly requests such as 'Would you wear a gorilla suit to the House of Commons?', to which she replied 'I don’t think it’s expressly forbidden, I could give it a try?'

Ross Noble has set rules for his game, namely 'be nice but ask really daft questions'. I think there are unwritten rules too, about the kind of person Noble can target. Would he pick on a fellow comedian, for example? Or an actor? At the moment we're not sure but one thing we do know is that Bannatyne wasn't amused.

Bannatyne's twitter account (fake tan pic included) is here: twitter.com/DuncanBannatyne

Ross Noble's twitter account can be found here: twitter.com/realrossnoble