In my eternal search for things to read I have always struggled to find humorous writers who keep me turning the pages. So when I first started writing myself, I intended to fill this gaping gap by making people laugh with my writing. Over the years though, I also started writing serious stuff, in fact, some of my latest articles are downright tragic and sad.

This week however, one of my funny stories made it to the finals of a humour writing contest in the US. The story, which I wrote back in 2009, after an unforgettable visit to a male gynaecologist, reminded me that rubbing some funny cream into my writing works wonders, so here comes some funny once again....

Unless you've been hiding in a hole all week, by now you know that the chase for Gadaffi is finally over.

I'm not sure if Khaddafi and Qaddafi were captured as well, but I have it on good authority that Ghaddafi and even Caddaphee are now definitely off the streets.

Poor guy! With our complete ineptness to get his surname right, he will never hit the top trends in Twitter.

To add insult to injury he's dead, but not buried yet. His body is still on show in a Misrata meat store where people are queuing up to see his dead body with their own eyes.

As morbid as this may sound, who can blame them? After all that he's put them through, after all that he's deprived them of for so long, and after the bad fashion sense that he has forced on all of them, who can blame them for wanting to make sure that the crazy terrorist is really dead?

Funnily, after encouraging the rat chase for six whole months, some members of the international community are now questioning the legitimacy of Gaddafi's death. They want to know if he was killed in cold blood, if it was an execution, or if he was killed in cross fire?

Who cares? Whilst his death was most likely illegal, sometimes being emotionally intelligent means closing both eyes in the name of natural justice. What I'm more interested to know is why this indignant self-righteousness did not apply when Bin Laden was hunted down and killed in his own bedroom in the dead of night.

Perhaps it might have had something to do with the fact that his executioners were American soldiers who weren't silly enough to take videos of the killing. Or maybe because they went the extra mile to get rid of the body by giving him a decent burial at sea. Who knows!

Let's face it, Gaddafi was undoubtedly the strangest head of state the world has ever seen. He was weirder than weird and more eccentric than any other despot before him. Whether his death was legitimate or not, whether it was justified or not, Gaddafi should consider himself lucky, even now that he's been taken out once and for all.

He ruled with an iron fist for 41 years, got away with mass murder, merciless theft and torture. He broke every human fundamental right in the book, and terrorised the world for breakfast, lunch and dinner. And, for all this, all he got were six months of fleeing from bunker to bunker, ending up in a hole, and a few minutes of globally televised bad hair and make-up. When you compare this to the fate that was met by other dictators before him, Gaddafi got a flippin good deal.

Benito Mussolini was caught trying to escape to Switzerland. He was shot the next day and his body was strung up in public in a Milan square for days.

Nicolae Ceaușescu was hunted down together with his wife, and after what is considered to have been a show-trial was sentenced to death. They were both taken outside with their hands tied behind their backs and shot in public view.

Saddam was hung after a three year trial, and Adolf Hitler chose the most dignified exit, by killing himself.

The only one that got away was Joseph Stalin, who died of natural causes at the age of 74.

But once again, I've digressed from the funny....

On such a historic day which produced gruesome videos of Gaddafi's last few minutes, I knew that I could count on social media to help me see the comic side of things. As soon as the news of Gaddafi's death broke out, Twitter and Facebook lit up with inappropriate but hilarious comments and updates.

One said – that will teach him to subscribe to 'find my friends' on the new iphone 4s.

Another said – there wasn't a bounty on his hand but he had a Twix in his pocket.

And my personal favourite said – so it turns out that it's easier to find Gaddafi than my phone charger.

And since I am now out of Gaddafi jokes please feel free to 'in Sirte' one here.