Does this man look like a terrorist?

The Weekly Triva File

  • Stand-up Scott Agnew has eked his revenge on Paul Coleshill, the Glasgow councillor who called him ‘despicable’ for joking about murder victim Moira Jones. Returning to the same club, just yards from where her body was found, Agnew read out Coleshill’s mobile phone number on stage and urged the audience to text him the words: ‘You’re despicable’. ‘Not that I trust you lot,’ he told the audience. ‘It was one of you scum that dobbed me in.’

  • Russell Brand went out on the town with Adam Sandler this week – and couldn’t keep up. They spent a night at Royal favourite nightclub, Boujis, but Brand bailed when the Hollywood star wanted to keep the party going somewhere else.

  • Stand-up and radio host Toby Foster, pictured, yesterday had his passport confiscated by French police, who thought he might be a terrorist. He was with a film crew in Charles De Gaulle Airport when a suspect package caused the terminal to be evacuated. ‘I said to Phil the cameraman “Get some shots of this, just in case”,’ said Foster. ‘Unfortunately this big bald French copper didn’t share our love of the burning sword of journalism and promptly took our passports, and took us in. We were forever trying to convince him that we weren’t terrorists, just three people with a camera. Eventually they told us that we weren’t under arrest, but he warned us that the French authorities now knew our addresses. I invited them all for lunch.’

  • Harry Enfield has made around £10million after selling his house in Notting Hill, West London for £12million, nine years after he bought it.

  • Matt Lucas has been named Britain’s Best Loved Baldie a‘head’ (sorry) of Gail Porter and Harry Hill.

  • Bad stand-up of the week:

  • Hollywood comedy star Seth Rogan was reportedly thrown out of an after-party for his own movie, Pineapple Express, after being accused smoking marijuana. In the film, he plays… a heavy pot-smoker.

  • Jimmy Carr did a corporate for British Gas this week, entertaining the staff who’d spent the day discussing how to justify massive price hikes. He told the boozy evening function that he’d arbitrarily decided to up his appearance fee by 35 per cent to match their rises. The middle-managers, ever sensitive to the problems their higher bills would cause, all cheered.

  • On his last tour, Ricky Gervais talked about tabloids needing an adjective to descibe him: ‘They can't just say “Ricky Gervais”, they need to say “Ricky Gervais, tubby comedian”,’ he complained. Well it’s getting worse,’ he wrote on his blog this week. ‘Now they don't even bother with the “comedian” bit.’ And he linked to a Daily Mail story headlined: ‘Tubby Ricky Gervais feels the burn as he finally attempts a workout.’

SOURCES: The Times, Chortle, thelondonpaper.com, Chortle, London Evening Standard, The Sun, YouTube, New York Post, The Sun, RickyGervais.com

Published: 1 Aug 2008

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