WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• 'I love bondage... I'm into some quite dark stuff.' James Corden.

• 'I killed 'em out there' nearly came true for Bethany Black at Bristol Jongleurs last Friday night… when one woman laughed herself into a severe asthma attack. The incident was so severe that paramedics had to be called, and the woman, Dee Leary, had to spend a night in hospital. Further tests revealed she had undiagnosed pneumonia, although she is OK now. This follows an incident at The Glasgow Stand in September where another man laughed so much he hyperventilated during Black's routine – passing out and falling through the fire door… again requiring a call to 999. Black – who has just appeared in E4's Cucumber, said: 'It seems I've now got so good at comedy, that my gift has become a curse, from "quite good" to "potentially fatal" in a short space of time.  With great power comes great responsibility.  I will try to only use my gift for good in future.'

• Milton Jones has owned a camper van for 21 years. He calls it Mother Teresa 'because it's blue and white and old.'

• Dara O Briain and Ed Byrne witnessed the body of a gangland murder victim being cleared up as they filmed  Dara and Ed's Pan Am Adventure in El Salvador for BBC Two. O Briain said: 'The bit they didn't mention in the press releases was this murdered guy we saw on the side of the road outside San Salvador. We stopped at this coconut stall and there was this dead body being bundled into a body bag. Not one of those zipped-up ones but a big plastic sack which was put in the back of a pick-up truck.' He was one of 39 victims of gang-related violence that weekend.

• Matt Lucas says he's loving living in Los Angles, but misses: 'people punching me and having a go at me for not doing Little Britain any more. In America I'm just that dude from the film Bridesmaids.'

• Jennifer Saunders says she wrote the Absolutely Fabulous movie as a bet. She tells the Jonathan Ross Show tomorrow (which also features Lucas): 'I'd had a bet with Dawn that I would have to pay her £10,000 if I didn't produce [it] by the end of the year?'

• She will be leaving… no… new messages. For the last 19 years, comedian Tara Flynn has been a  familiar voice to Irish mobile phone users, since the launch of Digifone in 1996 and now on O2.  But from March 1  the company's merger with Three will be finalised, and Flynn's voice retired.. 'End of an era,' she told her Twitter followers.. 'Been a great run and I've enjoyed telling you (and me) how many messages we've had.'

• Steve Martin is selling his home inSanta Barbara, California, for almost $11 million. The concrete-built four-bedroom house sits in more than five acres. Snoop around here

• Stand-up Sarah Kendall's released this picture of her teenage self to plug her high school-based show Touchdown, on at the Soho Theatre next week. The transformation is pretty remarkable - maybe time for a 'before' and 'after' campaign to advertise a career in comedy…

• Rufus Hound says he likes to dance naked, saying: 'True movement only comes when one is at ones least inhibited… And, how else would I do the windmill?'

• As improv group BattleActs embark on their run at The Vaults festival in London, they recall a gig supporting The School of Comedy, a sketch show performed by children. To plug the show, the rest of the cast carried member Michael Keane around dressed only in an American flag, which he wore like a nappy, as they all sang Lola by the Kinks in a weird falsetto. As a result, the show's producers forbade the troupe from having any contact with the young people… despite sharing a dressing room. They had to put up a curtain between the two companies.

• Is Novak Djokovic planning a career in comedy? The Serbian tennis champion made an appearance in a performance of Sexual Perversity in Chicago in Belgrade this week, to the delight of the audience:

• Josie Long's first job was selling double glazing door to door on a commission-only basis. She earned nothing.

• QI viewers are the most attractive to the opposite sex, according to a new survey.  According to a YouGov poll, a third of men and 29 per cent of women said they would be attracted to people who liked Stephen Fry's comedy panel  show.But admitting to liking The Only Way is Essex and Keeping Up with the Kardashians were turn-offs, according to the survey conducted for TV Licensing.

• Tweets of the week
David Whitley (@mrdavidwhitley): Why aren't moderate Chelsea fans coming forward to apologise for the extremists?
Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais): I wish people would stop judging racists by the colour of their football shirt.
Matt Buckland  (@): Karma - the guy who pushed past me on the tube and then suggested I go F myself just arrived for his interview...with me...

Published: 20 Feb 2015