Judd to publish Q&As with star comics

A tight 5: June 23

JUDD APATOW is to publish a collection of 25 interviews with comedians in a new book entitled Sick In The Head. Those featured in the charity tome, due out next year, include Mel Brooks, Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Louis CK Lena Dunham, and Roseanne Barr. The film-maker started interviewing comics on tape when he was a 16-year-old hosting a high school radio, and the Q&As will be taken from his archive.

JOAN RIVERS says she's being sued by Twilight star Kristen Stewart. In her new book Diary Of A Mad Diva, the 81-year-old comic said Stewart was a 'one-trick pony who got a whole career by being able to juggle directors’ balls'. Rivers said lawyers had been in touch, adding: 'She obviously didn't read our disclaimer, which is that it's a comedy book'. Stewart did have an affair with married director Rupert Sanders in 2012.

RIK MAYALL's World Cup anthem Noble England crashed out of the Top 40 yesterday, just one week after debuting at No 7 on the back of fans' campaigning.

BRIDGET CHRISTIE is going on a UK tour this autumn, with a double bill of last year's Edinburgh Comedy Award-winning show A Bic For Her and this year's follow-up, An Ungrateful Woman. The dates start in Maidenhead on September 10.

AMERICAN comic Steve Rossi, one half of the Sixties comedy duo Allen & Rossi, who made regular appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show, died in Las Vegas yesterday, aged 82.