VIDEO: Joey Barton has joined the “reading mean tweets” phenomenon … there’s a lot of them

Joey Barton is an anomaly.

Normally when a celebrity do this whole "reading mean Tweets" thing, it actually makes them more endearing due because they're embracing and laughing off the hostility thrown at them. It's difficult to say the same for ol' Joey B. He reads out gems such as this

Watching a magpie drop a lifeless rat in my neighbour's garden. Made me think of Joey Barton. #Coys — Mark Butcher (@KOwriting) August 2, 2011

And responds with either a withering "thanks mate!" or a smothered-in-smugness "imbeciles." It's rather enjoyable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6GuTTPIbvY