WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• ‘Chatting to other comics can be horrible.’ Sara Pascoe.

• In any other context it might have passed for jovial banter… but given the allegations against Bill Cosby, he might have been a little more careful what he said. When a woman left her seat during his stand-up show in London, Ontario, last night Cosby asked where she was going. ‘To get a drink,’ she replied – and offered to get him one. ‘You have to be careful about drinking around me,’ said Cosby – who has been accused of drugging women by slipping something in their drinks before he assaulted them. Later in the show, one heckler yelled out that Cosby was a rapist (see below), and he was removed from the theatre. Cosby has never been charged in connection with any of the sexual assault claims.

• The neurotic characters of Seinfeld are being used as a teaching tool for medical students. Anthony Tobia, an associate professor of psychiatry at Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey, has his students watch reruns of the show and then discuss the psychiatric disorders of its cast. He says Jerry has obsessive compulsive traits, Kramer is schizoid, Elaine unable to forge meaningful relationships, George being egocentric, and Newman is just ‘very sick’

• ‘Ukip are the Jim Davidson of politics’ says… Jim Davidson.

• Australian comic Dave Eastgate has escaped charges for wilful exposure – after convincing magistrates he had dropped his trousers in self-defence. Police arrested the musical stand-up outside a Gold Coast pie shop last August with his trousers and pants around his ankles. Eastgate – who has appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe both solo and providing musical backing to Brendon Burns – said he’d intervened when a group of thugs started harassing the shop assistant, and decided that exposing himself would scare them away. His lawyer said Eastgate had been working on a stand-up routine based on that premise.

• Thanks to the Twitter user who posted this today:

• Was surprised to see @jackwhitehall presenting the weather in Spain this morning... pic.twitter.com/Rwq9kVkGUv

— Michael (@checkscum) January 9, 2015

• Is it worthy of Plagiarists’ Corner to nick Plagiarists’ Corner from Stewart Lee’s website… Either way, in The Wrong Mans’ Christmas two-parter James Corden OBE and Mathew Baynton escaped from a tight spot with a ‘bomb’ made from Mentos and coke from a vending machine. And in one episode of The Simpsons escaped from a candy convention after stealing the ‘Gummi De Milo’ by creating an explosion with a bag of Pop Rox sweets and a can of Buzz Cola from a vending machine.

• Classy audience member of the week:

• Alan Carr has been voted the comedian most likely to make you happy by readers of Heat magazine, closely followed by Michael McIntyre and Jack Whitehall.

• Tweets of the week
Moose Allain (@MooseAllain): My son’s swallowed some of the Scrabble pieces so we’re trying to find an A & E.
Kristian Jomes ( @Uncle_Kristian): I was once caught masturbating in my local newsagents agents. It was all over the front pages.
Jeremy Limb  (@jeremylimb): Why do dictionaries have page numbers?

Published: 9 Jan 2015