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‘When you see me in my pants on stage you’re not going to think, “That’s a thin man.”’ Matt Lucas

Snoop Dogg’s credibility might have taken a bit of a bashing after confessing that his favourite TV show is Keeping Up Appearances, which is aired on BBC America in the States. He said of Hyacinth Bucket: ‘I still watch the show to this day and it makes me laugh so hard. She has to be one of the funniest people on TV.’

John Cleese starts his Scandanavian tour in Oslo next week, but he’s far from delighted to be hitting the road at his age – 69 – simply to fund his last divorce. ‘I get angry that I have to pack my trunk just to go away to make money. That I, at my age, would have to plan my life anew to pay her all the money she is to get for the next seven years – well it irritates me. I’d rather have been drinking coffee, reading books and writing. I can’t afford that now.'’

David Walliams often goes out on the town with Russell Brand, but insists they are very different types of ladies’ man. ‘Going out for nights with him, girls swarming towards him, it’s like he’s some sort of sex messiah,’ Walliams said: ‘I was in a nightclub with him and he was snogging one girl and he just stopped and started snogging another and I was like, ‘What about her [the first girl’s] feelings?’”

Meanwhile, an online petition to get Walliams to be the next host of Never Mind The Buzzcocks has amassed... 12 signature.

Billy Connolly fan Richard Kelly has paid homage to his comedy hero through the medium of ice cream. The Perth ice-cream man came up with the idea to coincide with the comic playing his town. He said the Billy Connolly ice cream will feature a huge cone - because 'it really is a ‘big yin’ and flavours including blueberry – to represent Connolly’s ‘purple beard phase’.

Reginald D Hunter says he gave ‘serious consideration’ to selling his sperm to raise some cash before his comedy career started. ‘Somebody told me you can sell it and I was blowing it out for free,’ he says. ‘Fortunately, I didn’t have to go in that direction.’

YouTube clip of the week. All Nineties American stand-ups in four minutes. In case you were wondering why the stand-up bubble burst:

Here’s something that probably won’t make Andy Parsons’ DVD. At the recording at London’s Lyric Theatre this week, the Mock The Week comic was moaning about centre-lane hogs, mentioning one particular comic who’s a particular offender. Goaded into naming him by the audience, Parsons revealed: ‘It’s Alex Horne. A great comic, a lovely man, but as a driver he’s a cunt.’

Talking of Andy Parsons, he might not be to everyone's taste, but those who belong to the Facebook group ‘I fucking hate Andy Parsons’ seem to have a specially bad reaction to a man cracking jokes that aren't to their liking. ‘I hate Andy Parsons more than paedophiles’ says Tony Leyden. '’'d actually go through the horrific experience of raping Parsons just to cause him the emotional and physical devastation that it would cause him,’ adds James Rowley, a theme Chris Bowkett warms to, with his charming comment: ‘I’ve been scouring the dogging spots of Britain in the hope that I will catch AIDS just so I can hate rape this cunt.’ Do you think any other art form provokes this sort of reaction?