WTF: Weekly Triva File

• ‘Comedy criticism is basically what a cunt thought of something they didn’t understand’ Frankie Boyle.

• Mind you, Boyle hasn’t got a good word to say about most comedians either, branding them ‘social retards’. ‘There’s a real sexual edge to it as well,’ he says. ‘They are travelling about, not really adept at making conversation, trying to hit on people at the disco at the end of Jongleurs and bin raking. Comedians are sexual bin rakers.’

• When Jack Dee left junior school, his headmaster said: ‘Being a joker is all very well, but it won’t pay the bills.’

• Will Ferrell says he wants to be the landlord of a traditional British pub. The Anchorman star says he would like to buy a boozer in Chelsea, near his favourite football team. He said: ‘All the Chelsea players would be welcome, but I wouldn't want a celebrity place, it would be an old-fashioned pub. I would be hands-on. I could get some great material off all the regulars. I am sure there would be a film in it.’

• Graham Norton has sold his Cape Town holiday home for £500,000, because he never gets to use it.

• John Cleese lost a tooth this week. Wanna see?
  

• Eddie Izzard spent £205 in the gift shop of the Beatles Story when he visited Liverpool on tour this week.

• YouTube clip of the week: Jamie Kennedy vs very drunk heckler:
  

• Could Russell Brand be ready to put his womanising ways behind him? 'I am feeling broody. I’ve grown weary of the carousel,' he said. 'Regardless of what happens in my current situation, I am unlikely to be satisfied with the calamitous promiscuity of the preceding five or six years.' In case you missed it, Brand is currently in a relationship with singer Katy Perry, which is going so well he's ready to introduce her to another great love: football. 'Before it begins, no I won't be taking her up the Arsenal,' he twitters, instead saying her first match will be West Ham Vs Everton.

• Misprint in an interview with Jimmy Carr in Metro: ‘Do you still get nervous before a show? God yeah. I calm myself down with lots of toffee.’ They meant coffee.

• When she was nine, Shazia Mirza set her mum's dustbin on fire.

• American Eliot Glazer was such a fan of The Golden Girls that he spent five hours having a tattoo done of the late Bea Arthur. Really.
  

• ‘I thought I was a fucking good compere.’ Ben Elton

SOURCES: My Shit Life So Far by Frankie Boyle, Glasgow Herald, The Sun, Sunday Mirror, Mail on Sunday, Twitpic, Liverpool Echo, YouTube, The Sun/Twitter, Metro, Guardian, Twitpic, Observer

Published: 6 Nov 2009