WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• ‘I shouldn't be this famous, or rich, with the stuff I do.’ Ricky Gervais

• Stephen Merchant smashed a window at Sarah Silverman’s house, when he walked into it after eating hash-laced chocolate. After trying – but failing – to be sick in the bathroom, he headed outside to get some air  – when he walked directly into the glass.  ‘In retrospect, it was a brown-coloured glass; it wasn't even transparent,’ Merchant told the Los Angeles Times.  ‘I think because my feet are so big they hit it first, and so the rest of me was relatively undamaged. Just 300 of Hollywood's elite looking at me, and I'm stoned out of my mind. I had no idea what was going on.’

• Last BBC this week re-ran an old episode of Mastermind in which one contender’s specialist subject was the the Reginald Perrin novels of David Nobbs. The author saw the episode and tweeted: ‘The contestant got all 16, I got 7.’

• The Friends theme, 8-bit version:

• This will be creepy. A New York comedy club opening next month will have an audience comprised of 30 baby dolls. Passers-by will be encouraged to tell jokes to the ‘crowd’ – in what is actually an art  project dreamed up by comedian Jo Firestone. She will be operating the dolls’ responses and says: ‘They're a pretty giving audience,. They don't like the inappropriate stuff, though. No rape jokes’. She says the idea is to give New Yorkers a break from the intensity of the city and the ‘painful things’ in the world. The event will be at the Chashama art group's based on West 37th Street for 12 days from October 10.

• ‘The trouble with monologue people is that all they seem to be doing is showing off.’ Ronnie Corbett on stand-ups.

• YouTube channel HuHa! has animated Richard Herring. Here he is with an extract from his We’re All Going To Die show:

• Sarah Millican says she would most like David Walliams to play her in any movie of her life ‘because he looks better in a dress than I do and I bet he can do a good Geordie accent’.

• Tweets of the week
MatCro (@MatCro ): I'm not saying ET's a thief but he's obviously a bit light-fingered.
Chris Hibble(@ChribHibble): I've made more Freudian slips than you could shake a dick at.
Karl Minns (@KarlMinns): ‘Fuck the Police!’ was the rejected tagline for UniformDating.com

Published: 20 Sep 2013