'I'm the urine testing girl'

WTF: Weekly Trivia File

Shappi Khorsandi says the worst job she ever had was dressing up as a box of diabetic urine sticks for a corporate video. ‘I had to go around the factory saying, "I’m the urine testing girl, I’m here to see how I was made”,’ she recalls with horror. The looks people gave me were terrible. The shame is seared into my soul to this day.’ Now has anybody got a copy...

Ricky Gervais is getting in shape by working out with world boxing champion David Haye. He said: He's a genuinely nice bloke (who could kill you). I showed him some boxing moves. (At one point I hit him in the stomach and it felt like a bag of concrete.) He told me some jokes. (Never to be repeated in public.)’

Another Malcolm Hardee story has resurfaced this week; about the time immediately following the comedian’s death in 2005. Hardee’s brother was at his flat, putting his affairs in order, when the phone rang. It was the Inland Revenue asking when Malcolm was going to settle his tax bill. His brother broke the news that Malcolm had died the week before, to receive the response: ‘Really, Mr Hardee, that’s what you told us last year’.”

Look carefully at Matt LeBlanc’s lavish Hollywood house in the forthcoming BBC Two series Episodes… it was actually in Mill Hill, North London, overlooking a power station.

Bad stand-up, old school. An American comic called Patrick Maliha put this clip up of himself doing comedy back in 1990:

Omid Djalili got recognised in Los Angeles this week… but not as himself. ‘Are you Dave Attell?’ the fan asks. ‘Very flattered to be mistaken for him,’ Djalili said.

Meanwhile Djalili said he took inspiration for his new role as a powerful drug baron by watching footage of cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan. Djalili plays real-life master Pakistani criminal Saleem Malik in the new film adaptation of Howard Marks’s book Mr Nice and said he ‘watched Imran Khan videos all day to get the posh Pakistani kind of thing’.

Spot stand-up comedian Jim Tavare in this new schlock horror film, The Black Box.

Self-publicising comic Lewis Schaffer this week sent out a press release announcing his first 'tour'... all in the same venue. He has a free Tuesdsay and Wednesday night residency in central London's Source Below.

Dara O Briain crashed Ireland's newest online newspaper, thejournal.ie, after tweeting a link to a link to his 174,000 Twitter followers.

And so to tweets of the week:
Dan Atkinson (@DanAtkinson): Commonweath Athletes’ Village is diseased and smeared with shit. Team Scotland say they’ve never seen such a high standard of living
Steve Martin: (@SteveMartinToGo): Took Ambien to sleep, and now dreaming that I’m Tweeting.
Iain Morris (@iainkevanmorris, co-writer of the Inbetweeners): Meant to be working, but thought I’d share that what happened to Will pretty much happened to me

SOURCES: Spoonfed, Metro, Rickygervais.com, Glasgow Herald, Chortle, YouTube, Twitter, This Morning, DailyMotion, Chortle, Adworld.ie, Twitter

Published: 24 Sep 2010