The week's trivia round-up

• Kenny Kramer, the oddball next-door neighbour (pictured) who inspired the Seinfeld character, is getting grief over actor Michael Richards’ racist outburst. Viewers who can’t separate fact from fiction have been calling the real Kramer at his New York home to yell: ‘How dare you, you son of a bitch. I won't watch Seinfeld again,' he claims. Kramer who used to live next door to Seinfeld co-creator Larry David, said of the actor who made the Kramer name famous: ‘He doesn't have the chops for standup, but you have to understand, Richards not the guy people think of - he's not a barrel of laughs. Every one of those moves and twitches he would make, is very choreographed. In person, he's not a big ball of fun.’

• Meanwhile, comic Jamie Foxx wants to use fisticuffs to tell Richards – who’s now being dubbed KKKramer – that his outburst wasn’t on. ‘When I see him, it's on,’ he said. ‘I'm not going to let him get away with it. If I'd have been in the audience he would've had to put his dukes up. He probably should go get a private island somewhere, cause if I see him..."

• Eddie Izzard’s ideal woman is ‘Jessica Rabbit – or failing that a Marilyn Monre-type figure. She’d have to have really big boobs.’

• When Steve Carell – star of the US version of The Office and The 40-Year-Old Virgin - walked into a New York hotel this week the bartender screamed at him: ‘Get out of here, you two-timing bastard.’ She was an ex – and we’re guessing the split wasn’t amicable.

• David Mitchell first started performing while at prep school – playing Rabbit in Winnie the Pooh with ‘big ears and an adorable little white tail’.

• Russell Brand may have been named as Shagger Of The Year in one newspaper column’s esteemed awards, but Girls Aloud star Sarah Harding says: ‘I'd like to not hear about all his sexual exploits, thanks.’

• Wanna see the poster for Simon Pegg’s Caught By The Fuzz, which is due out on February 16? It’s here.

• Matt Lucas says he admires stand-ups who can entertain without character or props. ‘I was never a comedian who stood on stage with a pint in one hand and a cigarette in the other and talked about myself,’ he said. ‘I thought it would probably be rather dull if I did that. I've been to see all those observational comics live and loved them. But I'm probably as in awe of them as are most members of the audience.’

• Will Ferrell’s secret of comedy: 'There's just something funny about a guy standing on a street, yelling.’

Sources:Toronto Sun, National Ledger Arizona, News of The World Sunday Magazine, Metro, The Independent, New Magazine, Chortle, Manchester Evening News, The Observer,

Published: 24 Nov 2006