WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• ‘Your average comedy audience – their lives are so horrible that they go crazy at weekends and they feel they haven’t had a good night out unless they’ve thrown-up a few times, had a fight and punched their girlfriend.’ Comedy Cafe owner Noel Faulkner talking to blogger John Felming.

• Sacha Baron Cohen and his actress wife Isla Fisher have put their Hollywood Hills mansion on the market for $2.6million. Click here if you’re the sort of person who likes snooping inside celebrity homes.

• Punters at Outside The Box comedy club in Kingston, Surrey, might have thought they’d fallen into a time warp this week when Bobby Davro and Shane Ritchie both showed up to do a set. Compere Maff Brown told londonisfunny: ‘Shane has adapted well and did material written by him, about him, and his experience of being Shane. Bobby was very much the mainstream act. A polished performer to a tee but some of the topics seemed dated.’

• Meanwhile, Ray Peacock and Ed Gamble were chuffed to see Ben Elton in the audience of their show, Peacock And Gamble Don’t Want To Be On Television Anyway, at the Salford Lowry.

• James Corden says he would invite Hitler to his dream dinner party.

• Billy Connolly has revealed how he and Gerry Rafferty used rolled-up pages of a Bible to smoke cannabis. The duo, who performed together as folk group The Humblebums, used the good book when they ran out of Rizlas on a remote Highland cottage. Connolly said: ‘My idea was to read a verse then smoke it. And I think I’m going to hell.’ He added that was the last time he held a Bible.

• An ITV report into the death of Richard Briers said that after his sitcom career, the actor went on to Shakespearean roles including ‘Much Ado About Nothing and Henry Vee’.

• Watch out for Sandi Toksvig in Jessica Hyne’s new suffragette sitcom Up The Women. She makes a cameo appearance playing  Emmeline Pankhurst.

• Kevin Bridges could find himself with a celebrity driving tutor, after Amy Macdonald offered to personally teach him. Bridges asked fans on Twitter for advice on how to learn and the singer replied “I'll teach you to drive”.

• It’s probably not what you expect of Frankie Boyle; but the controversial comic is campaigning to protect a meadow in Glasgow's West End from property developers, saying: ‘We have to stop at some point and ask how many shoebox flats does Glasgow need? Why are [the council] putting money before the life of the community?’

• Michael McIntyre is having three meals delivered to his door every day, at a cost of up to £60 a time, as part of his diet regime, if the Daily Mail is to be believed.

• Tweets of the week.
  Paul Sinha (@ paulsinha ): Sadly, the Venn diagram of "great sitcom actors" and "still with us" contain ever decreasing circle
  RogerQuimby(@ RogerQuimby ): I've written a piece on string theory. I'm not sure how long it should be.
  Pundamentalism (@ Pundamentalism ): The National Crying Competition? Well up for it.

Published: 22 Feb 2013