Ass Eating Made Simple

WTF: Weekly Trivia File

•'I see myself as a drug dealer.' Jimmy Carr.

• How Aussie is this? At the Melbourne Comedy Festival, our reviewer goes to buy a Coke to take into a show, only the be told the venue's bar doesn't have soft drinks, only booze. And the show? A deeply personal journey through the horrors of alcoholism...

• Also at Melbourne, we yesterday wrote about Asher Treleavan and Gypsy Wood's spoof magic act Peter and Bambi Heaven, pointing out that they are a real-life couple, too. Well, not for long - the pair are going through a divorce while performing their comedy show nightly. 'In retrospect, doing the show after we split was an insane idea,' Treleaven told the local Herald Sun newspaper. 'It’s a sad, confusing, exciting, frightening, bizarre scenario to be going through.' Wood added: 'It is very amicable between us, and that does help,. But even if it wasn’t amicable the show must go on. There’s no excuse. We both have that professional attitude.' And after Melbourne the pair must work together at the London Wonderground and Edinburgh Fringe. They are truly the Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox of comedy.

• Punters at a comedy show at the Proud Archivist in London were prevented from using the toilet during the gig - with a bouncer posted on the door just to make sure. Promoter Joel Sanders said it was down to a dispute between two brothers, one who owns the venue and one who rents the annexe where the comedy is held. 'It was absolutely extraordinary, madness really. In 30 years on the comedy circuit I’ve never known anything like it,' he said. Owner Alex Proud said the move was to stop anyone off the streets using the toilet, not because of any dispute with sibling Hector. But he told the London Evening Standard: 'The loos are part of my restaurant and we aren’t going to let crowds of people in who aren’t customers interrupt our diners’ experience.'

• When Scott Agnew needed an overnight stay for a gig in Birmingham, he got online and booked a hotel... 4,000 miles away in Birmingham, Alabama. Belatedly realising his mistake, he tried to get a refund from Expedia, who told him 'no'. 'I couldn’t afford to be getting another hotel so I thought I’d end up walking the streets in Birmingham for a couple of nights,' he said. But then he mobilised Twitter to make the travel website bosses change their mind – and eventually they relented.

• Michael McIntyre chose celebrityland's swankiest restaurant for his 40th birthday bash on Wednesday, about six weeks after he reached the actual landmark. Stars snapped rocking up to the eaterie clutching gifts included Amanda Holden, David Walliams, Rob Brydon, Nigella Lawson, Russell Howard and Jimmy Carr.

• Rob Delaney has revealed that the title of his and Sharon Horgan's hit Channel 4 comedy comes from the 1964 movie Zorba the Greek. 'Zorba is asked, "You got a family?"' the comic told The Week website. 'And he says, "I got a wife, I got kids. The full catastrophe." That's such a great quote — and that's what it feels like when you have a spouse and kids. It does feel like a full catastrophe.'

• As a prank, comedian Scott Rogowsky has been riding the New York subway reading books with false titles such as Ass Eating Made Simple, Gone Girl 2: Even Goner, Mein Kamf For Kids and How to Get Away With Murder for Dummies

• He will not let it lie. Vic Reeves and wife Nancy Sorrell were among 150 placard-wavers protesting agains the closure of his local post office in Kent yesterday.

• To be fair to Jimmy Carr, the quote at the top of this column, taken from a new with interview with Stuart Goldsmith on the Comedians' Comedian podcast, refers to the feelgood endorphins the body releases in laughter.