Massive jets of lion piss...

WTF: Weekly Trivia Fle

In his early days, Rob Brydon used to pretend to be his own agent. Too new to be signed up, people would call him direct to book him for events. So he invented an agent called Richard Knight of Knight And Day Management. After Brydon had agreed to a job as himself, he would put on an English accent and say: ‘Hello, Richard Knight here. I’m Rob’s agent. Look,I know you spoe to Rob. The guy’s an angel, I know he wouldn’t ask for fee but I wouldn’t be doing my job if I didn’t get one for him.’ Brydon recalls: ‘I got away with this for quite a while, but I feel bad about it now.’

David Walliams is a cock-blocker, singer Natalie Imbruglia has complained. She is good friends with the Little Britain star, and although she insists their relationship is platonic, he still scares off other men. She said: ‘He’s really bad for my dating. He pretends that we're friends and everything but if a guy approaches me… He once spat water on this guy! And I’m like, “What are you doing? People are going to think we’re going out! You’re scaring guys away!” I don’t like it. I’ve been very clear with David and he knows the situation - we're just friends.’

Paul O’Grady was held for two hours at Miami airport because border control officers couldn’t understand his ‘funny’ Scouse accent – and thought he was an illegal Cuban immigrant.

At last year’s Fringe, a woman got up to leave during Daniel Rigby’s show. He, naturally enough, started to mock her gently – whereupon she collapsed to the floor ‘like a sack of wrenches’. Turns out she was trying to escape the venue’s sweltering heat, and had fainted. ‘Everyone felt impossibly awkward,’ he recalls now. ‘And I had proved myself to be a shit.’

Meanwhile, Bethany Black says she has had the ‘most eventful’ gig of her career at the festival this week, with an audience that contained three drunk guys – and three who had dropped acid before coming to the show. One of the drunks fell asleep, causing his brother-in-booze to comment that he looked a bit like Keith Chegwin, which he repeated, at volume, throughout the performance. The drug-users, however, got confused and frightened, so Black ended up sitting on the lap of one of them, giving them a cuddle, while he screamed: ‘This is not happening!’ Welcome to Edinburgh.

Eight per cent of Irish women want comic Des Bishop to father their child, voting him the celebrity fourth most likely to make a good Dad.

Sketch group We Are Klang got their name from a lion the trio saw in Singapore zoo, according to member Steve Hall. He said as they stood watching the beast, ‘he turned round and unleashed a massive jet of piss all over us. His name was Klang and we thought his actions deserved honouring in some way.’

Rhod Gilbert has become the latest comedian to complain about the fiercely competitive atmosphere on Mock The Week: ‘I hate doing it,’ he said. ‘I’m almost in tears the day before, thinking about it.’