WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• ‘Russell Howard – I can’t get into him at all. I watch him on Mock The Week and he just doesn’t make me laugh.’ A badge of honour for Howard, as it’s Roy Chubby Brown who doesn’t like him. On the flipside Cubby thinks John Bishop and Dara O Briain are ‘very funny’.

• Comedian Meryl O’Rourke once out with a boy who was frightened of buttons. It was omething to do with a childhood belief that babies came out of the belly-buttons (Omphalophobia is the fear of belly buttons), she told blogger John Fleming. What’s worse, women’s nipples reminded him of buttons and, the first time Meryl took her clothes off in front of him, he vomited. They’re not together any more.

• Stephen Fry has got used to certain luxuries when flying. ‘I don't see the point of turning right onto an airplane. I just would never do that,’ he says.

• Omid Djalili, Dave Gorman, David Baddiel and Lee Mack will be taking on the likes of Pete Doherty, N-Dubz, 'stars' of the The Only Way Is Essex and Blue at a Celebrity Soccer 6 Tournament at Burnley FC this Sunday.

• An oldie but a goodie: Mitch Hedberg dealing with a dickhead:
  

• Naked Gun star Leslie Nielsen has a fart gag on his gravestone. The inscription on the headstone of his grave at the upmarket Evergreen Cemetery in Fort Lauderdale reads: ‘Leslie Nielsen, Feb 11, 1926 - Nov 28, 2010:” "Let 'er rip.’

• Steve Martin has found himself caught up in the biggest art forgery scandal in German history. A painting allegedly by German-Dutch modernist Heinrich Campendonk, which he bought €700,000 in 2004, turned out to be a fake. However, he hasn't lost all the money – as he sold the piece at a €200,000 loss two years later anyway. German investigators said that the painting was probably created by Wolfgang Beltracchi, the accused leader of a multimillion-dollar forgery ring./li>

• Rob Brydon is going to call his autobiography Small Man In A Book.

• Tweets of the week:
  Andi Osho (@andiosho): I just bought a hacksaw. It does what a normal saw does but it's so obvious and clichéd
  Jimmy Carr (@jimmycarr)A woman who’s face lift was botched has been awarded £6 million compensation but she doesn’t look very happy about it.
  Twop Twips (via @seyhall): WINDY MILLER. To avoid any potential accidents, build the door on the side of your next windmill.

SOURCES: Gigglebeats, thejohnfleming.wordpress.com, ContactMusic.com, Chortle, Youtube, Moviefone, New York Times, Twitter, Twitter

Published: 3 Jun 2011