WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• All I really want to talk about is anal sex and farting’ Reginald D Hunter.

• When Chris Rock visited a terminally cancer-stricken 15-year-old boy for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, he brought a very special gift. ‘I snuck him the Pam Anderson sex tape,’ he revealed on Jerry Seinfeld’s web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.

• Are ukuleles too prevalent in comedy? Let’s just say that when Howard Read lost his this week, he managed to find not just one, but five, replacements all at the last minute.

• Meanwhile, Zoe Lyons is relaxing between Edinburgh shows by looking after a number of chickens left behind by her landlords, donating spare eggs to starving comedians.

• This is one way to test how solid your marriage is. American comic Mark Malkoff spent 48 hours handcuffed to his wife Christine, eating, sleeping and even going to the toilet. Here is the result.

• ‘I’ve stopped watching porn. Not for any moral reason. But for the good of my penis.’ Stand-up Brett Goldstein.

• Spitting Image was almost called Rubber News, until produced John Lloyd found that was also the name of a fetish magazine ‘and we didn’t want to disappoint its readers’.

• Alistair McGowan once stripped off for The Boy With Tape On His Face. The impressionist was plucked out of an audience by the Kiwi comic in an Edinburgh show a couple of years ago. ‘He didn't know who I was at all,’ the McGowan aid, explaining: ‘He picked me out from the audience to mime the song from The Full Monty, giving me clothes to strip off in. I really enjoyed it.’

• It’s terrible when the audience doesn’t get you joke. Especially when that audience numbers one, and you’re on TV, as US comic John Crist discovers:

• Scotsman reviewer Kate Copstick was rather withering about Sarah Millican when she appeared on Yahoo’s Fringe In Five this week: ‘If she wasn't a Geordie she'd be told to go away, lose weight and come back when you're funny.’

• Tweets of the week
Tiernan Douieb (@ TiernanDouieb ): The UK population growth is the highest in the EU. And yet people always say we don't make anything in Britain anymore
Lanyard Quirk (@lanyardigan ): I like my coffee like I like my women: with their status as objects embedded implicitly in every premise.
Robin Flavell (@RobinFlavell): Elvis Costello once swapped a tyre for a box of chocolates. That was a Goodyear for the Roses.

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Published: 9 Aug 2013