A sick comedian

WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• ‘I'm not like Russell Brand, out in the audience with a cordless mic, foraging for vagina.’ Lloyd Langford.

• Chris Ramsey had to cut his tour show short last night – after vomiting mid-show. The comedian ran off stage at Aberdeen’s Music Hall to throw up – while leaving his microphone so the audience could hear every disgusting sound. He was too ill to continue with the last couple of minutes of the show, and has now cancelled tonight’s performance in Manchester and tomorrow’s in Belfast, too. Ramsey said the situation was ‘beyond grim’ last night, and said he felt ‘like dogshit’ today. Support act Carl Hutchinson kept fans up to date with developments on Twitter after the show, tweeting: ‘ABERDEEN! Massive massive apologies, Chris was 3 mins away from the end of the show. He's still being sick. Thanks for being class!’ then later: ‘Happy to announce he appears to be better but by no means well. He's just blew out about half his body weight.’ The incident comes just days after the police raided Ramsey’s hotel room in London in a case.

• Mark Thomas staged a mass flouting of Salford City Council's controversial swearing ban before his appearance at the Lowry Theatre last night. The council plans to use Public Space Protection Orders to fine people for bad language in the city’s Quays area, but the comic said: ‘The idea that the council can control what comes out of people's mouths is nonsense. The idea that guys in hi-vis jackets on the minimum wage can tell us what we can and can't say is nonsense… The problem is 36 years of privatisation. Public space has been sold off and these private companies bring in rules that you can't protest.’

• Australian comedian Luke McGregor is fronting a new six-part documentary about sex down under (ie in Australia - most sex is ‘down under’). But he’s not exactly the expert. ‘I’d only had sex twice up until the doco,’ he admits. ‘I figure I must be at least more awkward than the majority of people. I ask some really stupid questions.’ He says he’s upped his tally since filming the series, entitled Luke Warm Sex.

• Comedian Richard Gadd had some explaining to do at Stansted Airport this week. He was pulled over at security, when officers found a set of genuine handcuffs, a dildo, and a wide range of Poundland kid's toys in his carry-on luggage. It took him an hour to explain they were props for his Waiting For Gaddot show.

• Comic Gary Faulds has quite the family background to draw upon for his show at the Glasgow comedy festival. 'My dad was Freddy Jones, a bank robber who killed someone,' he says, 'and my stepdad, David Faulds, was a notorious name in Glasgow'. But he admits his family connections can have a downside. 'It is a shame if people think I am glorifying a criminal lifestyle because of my second name,' he told The National newspaper. 'I get this all the time but I am not a gangster.' His show, Lock Stock and Two Yum Yums Please is at Victoria's nightclub tomorrow.

• Australian comedian Harley Breen is again getting the best heckle of a festival tattooed on to himself. In the running to be permanently inked onto his body are: ‘In the running for the 2016 Best Heckle tattoo so far are: ‘Fuck the rules’, ‘You look like a fallopian tube’, ‘Make her orgasm’ and ‘You are a lost sperm missing in the remnants of a broken dream’ – with the winner being decided at the Adelaide Fringe tomorrow night.

Tweets of the week

Just did some research into Confirmation Bias. As I suspected, it’s true.
— James Cary (@sitcomgeek) March 7, 2016

They said I'd never be able to analyze comedy to the point where it would ruin my experience of it. Well, who's smirking and nodding now?
— Jordan Brookes (@jordbrookes) March 4, 2016