The weekly trivia file

• ‘Nothing quite moves me like classical music.’ Ricky Gervais

• In the wake of the Russell Brand/Jonathan Ross debacle, Peep Show star David Mitchell is thinking of pitching a TV show specifically targeted at people who like to be offended. He wants to call it Why Don't You All Go And Fuck Yourselves?

• Talking of which, 27ft effigies of Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross will be burned at the town of Edenbridge in Kent tomorrow.

• ‘You tend to lose your comic authority as you get older,’ says 53-year-old Rowan Atkinson. ‘ It’s more difficult to play certain kinds of comedy parts. People find it easier to laugh at someone under 50, possibly under 40. Playing comedy roles as you get older becomes a very different thing.’

• This, apparently, is a stand-up routine. Though where the gags are is anyone’s guess:
  

• Vic Reeves says his worst buy was a 35-foot river cruise, which cost him £40,000. ‘I got it when I was first on television after I'd paid off my mum and dad's mortgage,’ he said. ‘But I didn't know anyone who I could sail with, so I sold it a year later for £30,000.’

• Jason Manford on Channel 4's Tonightly, which he hosted: 'Half of it didn't really work. If I'm honest, I didn't find some stuff very funny.'

• A bunch of Monty Python fans took to the streets of London on the eve of the US Presidential election, protesting outside the American embassy: There is only one Palin – and they didn’t mean Sarah:
  

• Ricky Gervais filmed an in-depth interview for US TV show Inside The Actors Studio this week – but needed two toilet breaks in the four-and-a-half hour recording .

• James Corden bought his dad an Audi for his birthday

SOURCES: Daily Mirror, Observer, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times, YouTube, Daily Telegraph, Nottingham Evening Post, Rickygervais.com, Metro

Published: 7 Nov 2008