WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• ‘If someone needs to be urinated on, I am happy to do that,’ Chelsea Handler, after a video of Jason Biggs urinating on her emerged online:

• Jo Brand’s dad Ronald wrote a book called Falsework and Access Scaffolds in Tubular Steel. It might have been a bit a technical, but the plot was very well-constructed….

• Ellen Turnill Montoya, the designer who created the artwork for John Kearns’ award-winning Shtick show which is hung above the stage for his current Soho Theatre run, is selling 50 limited edition screen prints for £50 here

• Sarah Millican has shoved a custard pie in the face of a terminal cancer patient. But she hasn’t turned evil – it is part of Leicestershire woman Lizzy Strong’s fundraising campaign Random Acts of Silliness for local hospice Loros:

• Comedy benefits are plentiful – stand-up being a pretty generous sort of industry - but this is a new one. Comic and poet Richard Tyrone Jones has vowed to give £1,000 to charity from his next show… but only if he sells out. And the person who buys the most tickets gets to choose the charity. So he’s suggested the ruse that one good cause get together and buy all 160 tickets at £5 each and then claim the £1,000 – making a net gain of £200. His show What The Fuck Is This? comprises only the five words of the title, and takes place at 9.15pm next Friday 23 as part of comic Alexis Dubus's Hidden Gems festival at the Prince of Wales Theatre in Brixton, South London.

• Kevin Bridges was once nabbed by the police for kidnapping Hugh Grant. Not the real one, we hasten to point out, but a cardboard cutout that he and his pal Tony had stolen from a Clydebank cinema promoting Love Actually. Officers apprehended the teenagers and forced them to apologise to staff at the cinema, though they could barely keep a straight face when doing so

• Comedy writers are often not exactly supermodel material. But San Francisco fashion house Betabrand has recruited gagsmiths from shows like The Colbert Report, The Mindy Show and Parks & Rec to model its autumn collection. There’s interview with many of the women here.
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• Tweets of the week
Ross Lawson(@Ross_Lawson ): Lord Freud saying something he didn't mean to, but which reveals what he's really thinking. If only there were a name for that kind of slip.
Julian Lee (@JulianLeeComedy): The inventor of the needle threading machine is in a coma. In a cruel twist of fate doctors have said he won't pull through
Nick Motown (@NickMotown): In 1997, the Chuckle Brothers won the "World's Biggest Sheep" contest with their two metre ewe.

Published: 17 Oct 2014