WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• ‘I don’t buy The Sun any more either ‘cos it treats its readers as if we are morons’ Jim Davidson.

• Show Me The Funny judge Kate Copstick made a wince-inducing faux pas while passing judgement on one comic during the show’s recording. The critic says: ‘In a slip of the tongue which still haunts me I referred to one very experienced Afro-Caribbean comic as having been working "at the coalface of comedy".’

• Stand-up Simon Evans has become the voice of the ‘cantankerous, opinionated randy old fox’ in the Old Speckled Hen idents for Dave TV.

• Ricky Gervais is going to play God in his new comedy, Afterlife. ‘He's an arrogant, wisecracking son of a bitch, who thinks he's the best thing since sliced bread,’ the comic reveals.

• Sketch group Late Night Gimp Fight went down a storm with their hour-long show at Latitude last weekend... that is with everyone except one pedantic punter who clearly couldn’t enjoy it because of one nagging detail. ‘But they’re not gimp masks,’ he kept telling his partner. ‘they’re lucha libre masks.’ Oh, put a zip in it...

• Meanwhile at another festival, Phil Kay riffs with a heckler at Lounge On A Farm:
  

• Matt Lucas says he could never drive a car, because he daydreams too much. He says: ‘I am a bit of a daydreamer. I am not joking, sometimes if I go for a wee I am there for 15 minutes before I remember to go. My mind just drifts. I am worried I’ll be there driving along and I’ll go, ‘Oh yeah, that Topic bar I ate was a bit smaller than they used to be’, and BAM, SMASH, it’s James Dean all over again.’

• Meanwhile his Little Britain partner David Walliams has had a tattoo of Stacey Solomon put onto his backside. Unfortunatley, it’s only a fake for his Sky One show Wall of Fame.

• Tweets of the week:
  Tony Parsons (@TonyParsonsUK): Frankie Boyle picks on Jordan's disabled son, Jonnie Marbles cocks up attacking an 80 year old man- why are comedians such gutless bastards?
  Paul Lamb ( @Lambykins60 ):Trust the Greeks to make a Drachma out of a crisis.
  jacques_aih ( @jacques_aih): I've spilled some Red Bull on the carpet. Anyone got any White Bull?
  And an honourable mention to rapper Awate, who made the dreadful but inevitable spelling mistake in his Tweet today: ‘People keep telling me to act more like a raper. I come across too comedian-y.’

SOURCES: Jim Davidson’s blog, The Scotsman, Chortle, rickygervais.com, Chortle, YouTube, BBC Two’s Rob Brydon Show, The Sun, Twitter

Published: 22 Jul 2011