The week's comedy trivia

• ‘If I saw Jim Davidson’s car even now I’d write me name on it with a couple of 2p pieces.’ Phill Jupitus

• Talking of whom, Davidson has become an unlikely spokesman against dumbed-down TV. He complained: ‘Television treats us like idiots. Why do they get people running down the aisle with their fists in their air like complete morons? And why do competitions ask, “What is the capital of Scotland? Edinburgh, a phone box or Jimmy Carr?' You ring in then £60 later you still haven't won.’

• Richard Herring has been crowned the first ever Edinburgh Festival Poker Champion

• At the deliberately offensive £4U show at Edinburgh on Tuesday, the audience participated in the Madeline McCann Dance, US comic Jessica Delfino urinated on the stage and a punter put his finger up Kieran Butler’s arse to retrieve a pound coin. And they say the Fringe has become too mainstream…

• Syd Little is going to Jodie Marsh’s reality TV wedding at Colchester Zoo.

• At Montreal’s Just For Laughs comedy festival, controversial stand-up Jim Jeffries was asked to describe his material, but told that he was absolutely not allowed to swear. So when the reporter asked him: ‘Now Jim, what can we expect from the show tonight?' his mind went blank, so he just leant forward and said: ‘Racism'. They cut straight back to the studio.

• ‘Having sex with Paris Hilton would be like sleeping with a giant bar of Toblerone you'd dipped in Ronseal.’ Wil Hodgson

• Julian Clary wanted to call his debut novel Dead Man Wanking, but the publishers wouldn’t let him.

SOURCES: Sunday Times, The Sun, Chortle, Chortle, The Sun, The Scotsman, The Independent, Swindon Gazette & Herald

Published: 24 Aug 2007