Knickers to John Cleese!

WTF: Weekly Trivia File

  • ‘Careers are long, man. I have ample time to fuck this thing up, and to have people hate me and think I suck.’ Chris Rock

  • John Cleese’s fans have sent him a massive pair of frilly underpants as a belated birthday present. Although the gift, signed by members of his forum, arrived six months after he turned 70, Cleese said: ‘Your kind gift arrived when I’d returned home from knee surgery and provided such a tremendous lift in spirits, it was better than a birthday.’

  • Andy Dick’s been up to his old tricks – getting thrown out of a Los Angeles theatre after storming into a play in a drunken stupor. The comic is said to have walked into a performance of Yellow at the Coast Playhouse, insisting he didn't need a ticket, until he was ejected by the play’s director, Del Shores. Shores later admitted on Facebook that he ‘kicked [Dick’s] drunken ass out.’

  • Frankie Boyle's next DVD is to be called: If I Could Reach Out Through Your TV And Strangle You, I Would

  • Mitch Hedberg having some fun with a heckler:

  • Possibly the weirdest description from the Fringe programme comes for a show called Eyes Like Oysters: ‘You have a tiny penis. I have a tiny penis. Come and see our tiny penises. ‘They had tiny penises’ (Sporty Spice, 1997). A surreal and hilarious show that you should come and stare at.’

  • Meanwhile, another show is called Charm/Offensive. It doesn't auger well if you even nick your title from a Jimmy Carr tour…

  • Rob Brydon has a swanky new iPad – but has found a major drawback… he says he’s ‘appalled’ by his own reflection in its screen


SOURCES: The Times, John Cleese mailing list, National Enquirer/Facebook, Chortle, YouTube, Chortle, Chortle, Twitter

Published: 11 Jun 2010

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