Aural sex
• 'Everything is misogynistic. Comedy is misogynistic - comedy probably more so…' Stand-up Mary Bourke.
• Dawn French is selling her 15-bedroom Cornish holiday home for £725,000. She currently runs Clipper House in West Looe as a holiday let business, split into three guest houses. TV property expert Sarah Beeny has listed the property on her online estate agency, Tepilo, and says: 'I can easily see how you could have £250,000 a year from renting these properties out,' adding: 'I happen to know that the wonderful Dawn French has spent a considerable amount of time in this property.'
• Meanwhile, Ricky Gervais is selling his four-bedroom London pad, with basement gym and swimming pool, for £7.75million as he moves up the road. Snoop around here.
• Siri, you know nothing of comedy(right)…
• Popbitch asks this: 'Which Brit comedian has a bit of a thing for ears? One woman who went home with the funnyman had to stop the taxi and call it a night early because his back-of-the-cab kissing technique was getting a little too focused on her lug holes for her liking.'
• Patrick Kielty will have a race on his hands tonight – having to dash from The One Show, which ends at 7.30pm, to his gig in Canterbury, which begins at 8.30pm. He's booked a motorbike taxi to make the 60-mile dash through rush-hour traffic. Good job he has a support act, in the shape of Matt Rees.
• Lena Dunham has quite Twitter saying: 'It truly wasn't a safe space for me. I think even if you think you can separate yourself from the kind of verbal violence that's being directed at you, that it creates some really kind of cancerous stuff inside you.'
Tweets of the week
My son has just asked me why Spain named it's cold tomato soup after the Gestapo.
— David Baddiel (@Baddiel) September 30, 2015
Just went round the course in 108 but only marked 68 on my card. #VolkswagenGolf
— Jon Richardson (@RonJichardson) October 1, 2015
Zac Goldsmith's slogan to be London Mayor is 'Back Zac'. In my mind, I couldn't help but add 'And Crack'. I am such a child.
— Nick Harvey (@mrnickharvey) October 2, 2015
Published: 2 Oct 2015