Simon has a baby Bird

WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• Actor Liev Shreiber says Steve Martin gave him 'probably the best boner I’ve ever had.' He told talk show host Conan O'Brien that the unwanted erection came when shooting his first movie role as a transvestite opposite the comedian in Nora Ephron’s 1994 film Mixed Nuts.

• Ellen DeGeneres says she is the 14th cousin twice removed from Kate Middleton, but sighs that the Duchess of Cambridge ‘refuses to acknowledge’ the tenuous connection, revealed during research into the comedian-turned-talk-show-host’s family tree.

• Simon Bird has become a father for the first tine. His baby boys born six months ago, but the news only leaked out when his Friday Night Dinner co-star Tom Rosenthal let it slip during an interview with Heat magazine. ‘His kid is actually bloody great,’ Rosenthal said. ‘He’s got this bobbing head. And he’s got this ‘“Simon Bird” slightly judgmental air about him. He’s only six months old but I feel like he’s already patronising me.’ Bird, 31, married author Lisa Owens four years ago.

• Tim Minchin has bought a five-bedroom art deco house in the Sydney suburb of Coogee for £3.4million. The house includes a library, private courtyard and swimming pool. Minchin has been based in Hollywood since 2014, directing and writing the music and lyrics for animated musical comedy Larrikins.

• Last week reported how Netflix somehow managed to describe Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle as: ‘Reports of sharks falling from the skies are on the rise again. And nobody on the Eastern Seaboard is safe.’ We credited the spot to Brendon Burns, who passed it on to us – though we must really tip our hat to comedian and Penny Dreadful David Reed who originally spotted the snafu and screengrabbed it.