Hair transplants, security scares and public nudity

• The Daily Mail has been suggesting Rob Brydon has had a hair transplant, commenting on how thicker his thatch looks these days. In response, he said: 'For some time now my head has been feeling a lot warmer but I was unable to put my finger on the reason why. I'd like to reassure any concerned readers that I won't rest until I get to the root of this. In the meantime, I'm going to check my height to see if I've got any taller.’

• Chris Martin off of Coldplay has a quick go at stand-up during a gig in Amsterdam:
  

• Kristen Bell managed to resist Russell Brand’s charms on the set of Forgetting Sarah Marshall. She admits she rather fancied him – until she got to know him: ‘I had no idea who he was until I Googled him and saw what a little stinker he is with the ladies. He kept reminding us every ten minutes of how famous he is in Britain by going, “It’s so weird not to be recognised here”.’

• We won't name the club, nor the comedians, to spare their blushes – but promoters of a well-established comedy night in London recently emailed out listings information which included the surely-not-for-publication note: 'THIS BILL IS SHIT FOR A SATURDAY' attached to one of the line-ups. Oops.

• ‘I'd love to be a monkey - throwing excrement and masturbating all day,’ Jimmy Carr, via Twitter.

• In case you didn’t see this in our coverage of the Montreal Comedy Festival, musical comedian Justin Heazlewood – aka The Bedroom Philosopher – had to cancel his shows Songs From The 86 Tram after crashing off his bike. In a double irony, the accident happened on the route of the 86 tram… and the bone he broke? The humerus.

• Also from Melbourne, sketch group Comicide’s marketing stunt backfired when concerned members of the public alerted police. Who would have thought leaving 300 packets of suspicious white powder around a city centre without mentioning it was related to a comedy show could cause such a hoo-hah?

• A kid in his bedroom talking inappropriately about sex with such lack of embarrassment he’s even willing to put it on YouTube... that's stand-up:
  

• Local newspaper short of news? Opening sentence of a story in the Grimsby Telegraph this week: 'Comedian Omid Djalili mentioned Grimsby in the first episode of his second stand-up series.' Wow!

SOURCES: thelondonpaper, Daily Mail, YouTube, IMDB, Chortle, Twitter, Chortle, Chortle, YouTube, Grimsby Telegraph

Published: 24 Apr 2009