It's the Weekly Triva File

• Russell Brand’s quip ‘Amy Winehouse: her surname’s beginning to sound like a description of her liver’ has been named the best gag ever cracked at the Brit Awards. Can Peter Kay do any better when he hosts next Tuesday's bash?

• Ricky Gervais’s cat sounds like Sweep from The Sooty Show when she sneezes.

• David Mitchell hates reality shows. ‘I don't watch that kind of thing,’ he harrumphed. ‘I have this bitter feeling that it's taking money away that could be spent on comedy shows.’

• Dave Gorman has recalled the horror of his first paid gig at a club called The Hippo in Nottingham, telling the Derby Evening Telegraph: ‘It was £30 for 20 minutes. My manager said, “How much do you need the money, because you’re going to die.” When I walked on the stage and 200 voices chanted “B*** off, b*** off” before I’d even said hello, I knew it was going to be a nightmare.’ But what was the word the paper censored. Four letters, beginning with B, too rude for the people of Derby?

• Eddie Izzard and his promoter Mick Perrin met Nelson Mandela last week, after a series of gigs raised 1million rand (£83,000) for the ex-president’s charity. Izzard summed up South Africa’s changing politics saying: ‘You had all that shit and 20 years ago, you gave the shit up and it's all good.’

• This week’s ‘when gigs go bad’ clip comes from the Sickipedia night from a few months back…
  

• Our favourite, insightful, quote from the Leicester Mercury, reviewing a show at the city’s ongoing comedy festival: ‘He came on to applause.’ Put that on your poster!

  SOURCES:Daily Mirror, RickyGervais.com, Daily Mirror, Derby Evening Telegraph, YouTube, Leicester Mercury.

  Published: 12 Feb 2010