The comic in the comic

The week's comedy trivia

Ronnie Corbett is to appear at the Hay Literature Festival - sponsored by a nursing home.

Stewart Lee has made a cameo appearance in the latest Incredible Hulk comic. The stand-up’s face can be seen in a poster in the background of a fight between She-Hulk and Doc Samson in a New Jersey parking lot in the new edition, number 106. Lee, a comic-book fan, thinks it may be a nod to a stand-up routine he has about an awkward interview with Ang Lee, director of the Hulk movie. ‘I think they must somehow have heard of the stand-up Ang Lee/Hulk bit that I do, where I talk about always reading the comic,’ said the baffled – but flattered - Lee. Marvel’s publicist hasn’t yet responded to our emails asking why.

Paul Merton ate donkey penis while touring China for a new show on Five. ‘The donkey actually tasted quite good but I have no intention of ever eating one again in my life,’ he said. ‘I just hope that it doesn’t draw me sexually towards donkeys.’

Lazy, balding, lank-haired Little Britain slob Andy has made it onto a list of women’s sexual fantasies.

Chelsea players commiserated after losing the Premiership to Man Utd last week – with a trip in a comedy minicab. Adrian Green, who’s a regular at the Edinburgh Fringe as DJ Minicab, picked the team up from Brinkley’s restaurant in Chelsea to take them to Amika nightclub in nearby Kensington in his prop-filled car. Midfielder Shan Wright-Philips was one of those on the end of a practical joke – trying to stand up through the sun roof while the car was moving, he was alarmed to hear a police siren, but relieved to find it was just a gag sound effect from inside the car. Green also persuaded Frank Lampard to pose as his driving instructor in case they were stopped by police, joking that he hadn’t got his licence yet. Green said the players so enjoyed the trip that Ashley Cole offered to buy the car off him.

Failing to separate fact from fiction, the reports on local sound mixer Tim White picking up a Bafta by remaking that he ‘has worked with comedian Nathan Barley’.