WTF: Weekly Triva File

Chris Rock: ‘I’m a comic, I’m black, I use it to my advantage. If I were a girl and had big tits, I’d talk about my tits from time to time.’

• Not everyone was sad to see the five Jongleurs close this week. Just The Tonic sent an email out inviting people to celebrate the demise of its Nottingham rival. ‘We can't help being pretty pleased,’ it gloated.

• The troubled chain had at least one packed event this week: 500 striking Leeds binmen held a mass union meeting in the Leeds Jongleurs yesterday.

• John Cleese and Eric Idle have revealed that they clashed over a urine-drinking sketch, which the BBC banned from Monty Python. Idle wanted to do a skit about wine expert mistaking drinks for pee, while Cleese says: ‘I sided with the BBC... I found it really rather distasteful.’ But Terry Gilliam said it was cut because TV bosses were seeing innuendo that wasn’t there. ‘Apparently, one of the glasses of wine had a slight rose tint to it, which, to the BBC's mind, was menstrual urine,’ he said. ‘They were really twisted.’

• Charming. A half-naked man does stand-up on his porch, talking about ‘retards’ and 'sex with a fat chick':
  

• Sacha Baron Cohen and fiancee Isla Fisher have rescued a lost dog. They found the Maltese-Chihuahua mix in the Hollywood Hills and called owner Jennifer Tapiero - but didn't identify himself before handig over the pup. He simply told her: 'I’m very tall and my fiancee is really tiny. You can’t miss us.'

• Powerful thing, guilt. Ricky Gervais – who bitches about the Oxfam charity gifts such as a goat for an African family in his current stand-up tour, has just launched a range of… Oxfam charity gifts featuring his Flanimals creations.

• Rule one of PR: know your client. Chortle received a press release yesterday trying to drum up tenuous coverage for Mighty Boosh star Rich Fulcher’s new book. At least that’s who we think they mean: the email header referred to him as Rob Filcher,

• We wouldn't normally write about a waterway in the Canadian city of Moncton that has been polluted by toxins leaking from a landfill site – but for its name: Jonathan Creek.

• SOURCES: Punchline magazine, Chortle, Yorkshire Evening Post, imdb, Daily Express, Oxfam, Chortle, Hemel Hempsted Gazette, Moncton Times And Transcript

  Published: 23 Oct 2009