'Absolute drivel'

The week's comedy trivia

Two fans have had the same image of Simon Pegg in Shaun of the Dead tatttoed on to them - one in London and one in Seattle. ‘One had a picture on their leg and the other had it on their arm, Pegg said. ‘That’s dedication for you. We commended them entirely for such support. That image in particular makes me look very cool.’

You may have read reports that Brad Pitt confided to comedian Omid Djalili that he thought his marriage to Jennifer Aniston was in trouble after just six weeks. The Hollywood actor is said to have complained to Djalili that he was in the ‘starting to despise her’ phase of their relationship, while on the set of the movie Spy Game. For the record, Djalili has been in touch with Chortle to say the story is ‘drivel’ and ‘absolute nonsense’.

Actor Rafe Spall said he didn’t enjoy gay sex scenes with David Walliams in the new Frankie Howerd biopic. Rafe – the son of Timothy Spall – plays Howerd’s lover Dennis Heymer, and said: ‘I didn’t enjoy doing those scenes with David. Sex scenes with girls are embarrassing enough but doing them with blokes, you have to dig deep and think of England! There aren’t any full frontals, thank goodness, but there is some nudity.’

Allo Allo star Arthur Bostrom – who played Officer Crabtree – has moved to a farmhouse on the outskirts of Aberdeen to write a new sitcom; but says he is keeping quiet about what the show entails, to avoid anyone stealing his ideas.

Oh, he’s such a card! Jim Carrey showed up for David Letterman’s chat show in a bathrobe this week – saying he didn’t realise that the clocks had gone forward and he didn’t have time to change. He then ducked behind a chair and stripped. Before donning his proper clothes:

Leigh Francis and Craig David are continuing their spat. Now the Bo’ Selecta comedian! has hit back at claims his caricature of David ruined his chances of being taken seriously. I fucking hate it when he blames me for what’s happened to him,’ Francis said, ‘I’ve got nothing to do with his musical career. He writes his songs, I don’t. If his music career hasn’t worked, it’s his fault, not mine. He was slagging me off all last Christmas. He said that I bumped into him, said sorry for affecting his career and that he’d called me two-faced. That’s absolute bullshit. That’s why I’ve started doing him again. When he went to the US after he fucked Britain off, I kept his name alive.

Comic Matt Green's Edinburgh preview at the Hen and Chickens Theatre in Islington, North London, was hit by a blackout last night. But the young stand-up wsn't going to let that beat him, so he took his entire audience to the nearby Cedar Rooms where the show went on.