WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• Russell Kane calls his period of sleeping around 'my tour of duty in Vadge-ghanistan'.

• Roisin Conaty might be a mate of Greg Davies's, but she still had to audition for a role in his new Channel 4 sitcom, Man Down. And she made quite an impression after she walked out of the room – when she got her heel stuck in a grate across the door. 'I couldn’t move,' she recalls. 'The whole casting team, the producer etc, are waiting for the next actress but they can’t because I’m outside the door trying to wedge my shoe out. It took about half an hour. I thought, "I can’t leave as I only have one shoe on." When I got the part, Greg sent me a photo of the shoe saying "Well done."' Truly a Cinderella for the modern age.

• The links between Del Boy and the energy industry go deeper than the way they set their prices. A special episode of Only Fools and Horses was made in the early Eighties by the by the Maureen Oilfield Consortium to encourage school children into the oil and gas industry. The episode, Lennard Pearce’s last appearancebefore he died, had been considered lost – but it is available on a Romanian video website,

• Comics growing their facial hair for Movember include David Schneider and Adam Hills.

• Reginald D Hunter is at the centre of an online storm after a woman who walked out of his show in Aberystwyth complained on his Facebook page that the comic glorified 'misogyny and violence'. The comic replied to Jo Cooper in typically uncompromising style, saying: 'I am pleased that my performance hurt you last night. You, and the rest of the bitches of your ilk, the ones to who are super-supportive and empowering instead of being truthful, the ones who never want to solve issues - just have them, the ones who destructively presume to speak for all of femininity but only do for a few… tell them that I am coming to intellectually and emotionally mutilate their collective, dumb, devisive asses too.'She then complained to her local paper that Hunter's fans sent threats to her...

• Wayne Rooney booked Roy 'Chubby' Brown to play his birthday party in Manchester this week.

• Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum, no fan of gay marriage, believes the growing demands for equality are all down to - a sitcom. ‘When it came to the issues of changing the definition of marriage, there was no change — none! Zero! For 30 years,’ he said. ‘And then a television show came on the air called Will & Grace — and look at it from that point on.’

• Australian stand-up Steve Hughes is no fan of mainstream comedians. 'We are in the era of careerist comedy,' he told the Hull Daily Mail. 'You get your Russell Howards, who are really big, but I am not into that type of thing, I don't know what people are laughing at.'

• Perpetual mischief-maker Bob Slayer got into trouble with his first book before it even launched. The comic had called it Calpol Is Evil... but unfortunately it attracted the attention of lawyers at Johnson & Johnson, who own the brand,. They fired off the usual 'cease and desist' letter to protect their trademark. Well, normal except for the fact it included the sentence: 'We also really enjoyed watching your videos online, not least your impressive reinterpretation of Slayer’s Raining Blood.' Slayer (the stand-up one) accepted their point, and has now changed the book's name to The Happy Drunk. It would also be remiss if we didn't mention that he was launching it at the Chortle Comedy Book Festival at the end of the month...

• Tweets of the week
Adam Hess (@adamhess1): We probably need to rethink the phonetic alphabet now that 'Movember' is a thing.
Michael Spicer (@MrMichaelSpicer): Michael Spicer Peeling the sticker off an apple is the original 'skip this ad'.
"Dan" (@ehdannyboy): Fact: M Night Shyamalan has a sister called Woahblackbetty.

Published: 1 Nov 2013