WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• 'Drink doesn't add anything to your creativity. Not a fucking thing. Anybody who thinks that is a fucking idiot.' Irish comic, and alcoholic, David McSavage.

• Avalon boss Jon Thoday has been annoying his neighbours over excavations to add a subterranean swimming pool, media room, sauna and hot tub to his £5million house. And just look at who those neighbours in Notting Hill are! Those complaining include Georganne, Countess of Uxbridge; heiress Sabrina Guinness, the former girlfriend of Prince Charles who has just married playwright Sir Tom Stoppard; and, unfortunately for him, journalist Danae Brook, who got a double-page spread in The Mail on Sunday to complain about the disruption the building work was causing.

• Meanwhile, his former client Stewart Lee says the most expensive thing he's ever bought - not including property - was a copy of a letter from satirist Nancy Mitford, which he  bought for his wife Bridget Christie. It cost £120.

• According to Google, comedian Tom Allen died in 1988, which would have been at the tragically early age of five. This might be news to anyone who saw him at the Rich Mix LGBT fundraiser this week…

• Much better work from IMDB's entry for This Is Spinal Tap. Look what the score goes up to…

• Neil Morrissey says he would make a new series of Men Behaving Badly ‘at the drop of a hat’. But he told Good Morning Britain it was down to other people, including co-star Martin Clunes. ‘I doubt they could afford Martin any more,’ he said.

• Comedian Phil Lucas has landed an interview to appear on the next series of The Apprentice, despite sending producers a spoof application that said ‘I don’t give a rat’s arse about the corporate world. On his form, he said he could not wake up at 6am and be dressed in 20 minutes and so Lord Sugar would see him ‘comatosed in a pair of Nutella-stained jogging bottoms’. He also named the most impressive thing he had ever done in business as directing TV presenter Jayne Middlemiss to the musical DVD section in HMV. The comic - who has a history of practical jokes in his native Brighton & Hove – was invited to an interview this Sunday, but declined.

I sent this application off to The Apprentice. pic.twitter.com/nJs0OBJwxt

— Phil Lucas (@PhilLucas) February 2, 2015

• Tweets of the week
Liz Buckley (@liz_buckley): "You can choose your friends but you can't choose your family" - Tinder instructions.
Tom Jamieson (@jamiesont):  Snow arrived overnight but it doesn't look like it's going to settle in West London as it doesn't have £80,000 for the deposit.
Karen D. Lioness (@DeadLioness): Just once I'd like a number between 1 and 10 to think of me.

Published: 6 Feb 2015