The week's comedy trivia

• Who is this successful American comedy figure, pictured in 1969? Answer below.

• Omid Djalili said he nearly died when he went on holiday to Iran at the age of six and fell into a ‘pit of human excrement' that passed for the sewerage system.

• Ricky Gervais says: ‘I love paying tax. It helps justify how much I earn. There's something unsavoury about tax exiles. Pay your tax or fuck off.’

• Justin Lee Collins sends Carol Vorderman obscene text messages when drunk.

• Elizaveta Osova, an unknown 20-year-old Russian model David Walliams met through Facebook, has complained to the News Of The World’s 9million readers that the Little Britain star used her for sex, not as marriage material.

• Big Brother twins Sam and Amanda Marchant reckon David Walliams has offered them a role in the next Little Britain after seeing their Vicky Pollard impression.

• The church in Rawdon, West Yorkshire, where Spike Milligan married his second wife Paddy 46 years ago has been put on the market for £500,000.

• From today’s Holy Moly: ‘Which member of an inexplicably successful comedy act enjoyed a light S&M session with a mole recently?’

• Chris Rock celebrated his 42nd birthday – not with a glamorous showbiz bash, but by taking his family to see The Little Mermaid on Broadway.

• And the picture? It was Larry David – as seen in this Curb Your Enthusiasm book.

SOURCES: thelondonpaper, Sunday Times, Radio Times, The Sun, News Of The World, Daily Star, Bradford Telegraph & Argus, Holy Moly, Broadway.com

Published: 15 Feb 2008