Man eating shark is wrong

WTF: Weekly Triva File

Tina Fey: ‘For years I’d been physically compared to Nana Mouskouri ... so Sarah Palin was a real gift’

The QI elves had to do a hasty bit of backtracking yesterday, after upsetting animal conservationists. Their daily quirky fact, transmitted to their Twitter followers was: ‘Whole baby hammerhead sharks (cooked in white wine with peppercorns, garlic and shallots) are delicious’. However, two hours later, after being contacted by activists at the Bite-Back charity, they deleted their original post and replaced it with: ‘QI unequivocally condemns the eating of any endangered animal. More info on the hammerhead’s plight at Bite-Back’. The organisation had told the panel show question-setters: ‘Shame on you for the ref to eating baby hammerhead sharks. It’s ill-educated and wrong to promote the extinction of a species.’

Subtle. James Corden took his stunning girlfriend Julia Carey to a Porsche showroom this week, to look at a model he says he is considering buying... In other Corden news this week, he has revealed that he was teased as a schoolboy - because his middle name is Kimberly.

Comedy’s enfant terrible Chris Morris has always had a dark sense of humour – and even recalls choking back the laughs at his grandfather’s funeral. He remembers his grandmother ‘in a wheelchair, dabbing her eyes with lace hanky’. ‘It was a moving moment,’ Morris said. ‘Then the hearse reversed right into her. I looked at my brother, and my blood pressure must have quadrupled trying to keep the laugh in… People ought to acknowledge that of course we laugh at sick jokes in the privacy of our own homes. Don’t be so fucking precious about it!’

Want to see what happens when a hypnotist asked his victim to pretend to be a Chinese stand-up with a filthy act. Of course you do... Racism ahoy!

Gotta love this email Chortle received this week, from a journalism student seeking a commission, promising - verbatim – ‘I don’t think quality will be an issue, we’ll not after 3 and half years of doing journalism.’

If you go and see the new Matt Damon movie Green Zone, look out for British-based Canadian comic Tommy Campbell playing the Chopper Comms Commander. ‘It’s an incredibly intense film,’ he said. ‘The action is breathtaking.’ Campbell previously had a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it role in the Dark Knight.