The week's comedy trivia...

• Fraser star Kelsey Grammer has named his yacht BIOYAK, which stands for Blow It Out Your Ass.

• The used prostate of Dame Edna Everage's late husband Norm is being auctioned on eBay. The housewife superstar had donated the gland to a Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia auction, where it sold for AU$7,000 – about £3,000. But the winner put it back on eBay, to raise more cash for the charity. Dame Edna said: ‘My husband, soon after our marriage, developed a prostate murmur which turned into a rumbling so loud it woke the neighbours. They asked me if I could keep the noise down - I said there is a knob but I'm not touching that. And here it is now here in this jar. I've treasured it, talked to it and it is in better condition that ever before.' Bidding’s currently at around $1,225. Bid here

• Curb Your Enthusiasm's Jeff Garlin knows how to sell his new film, Want Someone to Eat Cheese With. ‘It's like an Albert Brooks or Woody Allen movie, only not as good,’ he says.

• Top research, fellas. The Daily Mirror yesterday reported how Billy Connolly was being lined up for a role in Harry Potter, quoting one of those all-too vague ‘insiders’. A quick Google reveals the quotes come from a blogger who was simply running through ‘a list of actors we’d like to see considered for roles in Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows’. An impeccable source, then…

• Catherine Tate has discovered an unforeseen problem in being the sidekick to David Tennant’s Dr Who, saying: ‘I always struggle to keep up with him because he hasn’t got breasts like I have. Breasts aren’t built for running.’

• Richard Herring has cut his knee falling off a skateboard he rode offstage at London’s Arts Theatre.

• Rockers The Enemy have branded stand-up-turned-DJ Alex Zane a ‘talentless, useless prick’ after he refused to their songs from his show. The ban came after band frontman Tom Clarke said Zane only got his job by sucking cock, and wishing he would hit by a bus….

• David Mitchell has cleared up his relationship with Matt Lucas. ‘We’ve met up a few times,’ he says, ‘but we’ve never wanked each other off.’

• It’s not often a 6,000-word blog post about the ins and outs of smartphones will cause so much internet traffic that the website crashes. But when Stephen ‘is there nothing he’s not an expert on?’ Fry started his online diary with such a mammoth post, that’s exactly what happened, with talk of ‘tethered modem DUN connections’ and the difference between Touch WinMob 6 vs 5 causing the servers to collapse under the weight of interest. You can try to read it http://www.stephenfry.com/blog- but be prepared for the link to be down.

• Want to see her etchings? Jenny Éclair has a Tracey Emin etching of a pubescent female nude in my study. She says friends tell her the image looks like her ‘because I have such small boobs’.

SOURCES: The Sun, Sky News Australia, CNN, The Mirror, The Sun, Richardherring.com, Richardherring.com, thelondonpaper, Stephenfry.com, The Independent

Published: 21 Sep 2007