Andy Kaufman releases a fragrance

WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• 'When it comes to offensive comedy, you can never blame the comic, you can only blame the audience.' Daniel Sloss.

• Andy Kaufman is releasing a fragrance. Or at least perfume company Xyrena is releasing a scent in the name of the late comic. Andy Kaufman Milk & Cookies, was inspired by the comedian's 1979 Carnegie Hall show that ended with him taking the house out for a snack in a fleet of waiting buses. The scent will sell for $42 and is being released to coincide with the 40th anniversary of Kaufman's appearance on the first episode of Saturday Night Live, on which he played the Mighty Mouse theme on a record player.

• Craig Ferguson is flogging his four-bedroom Malibu beach house for $7.1million… not bad for a lad from Springburn. Snoop around the comic-turned-chat-show-host's pad here.

• As Norman Wisdom was big in Albania, Nicholas Lyndhurst is an unlikely celebrity in Montenegro, where Only Fools and Horses is a sizeable cult hit. The website Balkan Insight says 'a generation of young people in Montenegro has grown up' on the sitcom as it 'resonates' with local viewers 'especially in the Nineties, when the ex-Yugoslav countries felt isolated, desperate and downtrodden'. The show airs in the Balkans under the name Mucke, which translates as 'Suspicious Job'. The link was revealed when Lyndhurst recently visited the country to encourage more people to become foster parents, in his role as a UNICEF spokesman.

• CJ de Mooi from Eggheads laughed so hard at Dave Gorman's Modern Life Is Goodish that he fell off a treadmill.

• The Pope has an official comedian – and he's Jewish. The American branch of the Pontifical Missions Societies, a Catholic organisation, launched a contest decide the title of Honorary Comedic Advisor to the Pontiff. More than 4,000 people from 47 countries participated, and Rabbi Bob Alper, 70, from Vermont won. He said he was 'shocked and delighted'.

• Madonna still harbours ambitions to become a stand-up, suggesting she might incorporate it into her future concerts. She told Rolling Stone magazine: 'I quite like the idea of just sitting on a stool with a bottle of wine, a guitar and working my stand-up comedy into the whole scenario. I like talking to audiences, telling stories. I think I could make an interesting show, to tell you the truth.' This is her on the Tonight show earlier this year: