WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• Arthur Smith addressing the What's So Funny? comedy conference at the British Library this week: ‘I am in fact, the coolest man in the room. No, I’ll keep my trousers down…’

• John Cleese has been forthright about ex-wife Alice Faye Eichelberger again. 'I feel very cross sometimes when I'm packing a suitcase to go to yet another place to film a job I'm not really interested in and I hear she's on a month-long cruise around China,' he said. 'When I met her she was living in a council flat in London. She didn't bring anything into the relationship. I have several things I want to write about but that's not going to happen at the moment unless Alice Faye gets kidnapped by aliens and taken off to another universe. I've been trying to contact aliens but so far I haven't had any success.'

• Lenny Henry was on Kate Bush's 1993 album, The Red Shoes, providing vocals for the track Why Should I Love You?, which was arranged by Prince.

• New York comic Craig Rowin, a member of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, claims he has been given $1million – just for asking for it. He appealed for someone rich to give him the money in a YouTube video two months ago and now says he has found the benefactor, even producing an official letter from the mystery millionaire's lawyer. He has no altruistic purpose for the money, he just thought it would be ‘awesome’. Here he is:
  

• Greg Davies says his Inbetweeners character Mr Gilbert is nothing like he was when he was a drama teacher. He said: ‘He's kind of the teacher I always fantasised about being because children are absolutely petrified of him. But as my ex-pupils regularly confirm, I wasn't remotely fearful. When Gilbert walks into a room everyone shits themselves. I'm not convinced I had that effect. I think they just thought, “Here comes that depressed bloke again”.’

• Sarah Millican says he worst gig is a toss-up between an ‘horrific’ hen-night dominated show in Coventry when the crowd gave racist heckles to the compere and a night when she was talking about her marriage break-up when a drunk little old man climbed on stage and said: ‘I’ve been divorced. I’ve got a couple of stories…’ and had to be led off by the bouncers.

• Co-ordinated enough to do a back-flip… but not to leave the mic without tripping over the cord:
  

• ‘Every comic lives on the edge of sanity, and some flip over. I have got close’ Cornish stand-up Jethro.

• Tweets of the week:
  @davidschneider: Show your appreciation for Andy Coulson. Leave him a message of a support on your voicemail.
  @RogerQuimbly: I was mistaken. NSFW isn't an Australian abbreviation for New South Fucking Wales.
  @TonyCowards: Can't believe that Anne Hathaway has been cast as Catwoman, she looks nothing like that old lady who put the cat in the bin.

SOURCES:Chortle, Daily Record, Popbitch, YouTube, Press Association, Metro, YouTube, York Press, Twitter

Published: 21 Jan 2011