Blood, sweat and tears
Weekly trivia file
‘It's an embarrassing, self-indulgent, pathetic job,’ Andrew Lawrence on being a stand-up- Mark Allen thought dressing in a dalmatian costume to promote his Edinburgh show Pet Project was a good idea – until he was set on by a real dog. ‘The dog went for me,’ he said. ‘It took two people to restrain him. I fled with my tail between my legs.’
- ‘I always fancy the gay guys. They're so wonderful and lovely, compared to all the poor ugly straights.’ Shazia Mirza
- Josie Long trod on a rusty nail in her Edinburgh flat, and was admitted to hospital ‘for about ten seconds’.
- Still at the Fringe, Phil Kay didn’t change his trousers for seven days.
- Isabel Fay had to hotfoot it from Edinburgh back to London for one night only for a well-paid acting job but it meant sprinting off stage and straight into a cab to the airport, with no chance to properly clean off all traces of the fake blood that is dripping from her hands by the show’s end. Which is probably what caused her extra attention at security, scrutinized, frisked and searched at every opportunity. Fay said: ‘I realised they had all been too polite to say, "Why have you got the blood all over your hands, madam? Are you a butcher/ gynecologist/ murderer?” but not too polite to stick a bomb scanner between my legs.’
- Bad stand-up this week borders on child abuse, making a poor kid do this on Crackerjack:
- James Corden has a sock fetish, spending a fortune on expensive pairs.
- ‘I never liked Ben Elton at all. It wasn't his politics, there's just something about him that gives me the creeps.’ Mark Steel
SOURCES: The Scotsman, The Independent, The Observer, Metro, Metro, Chortle, Mirror, Belfast Telegraph
Published: 8 Aug 2008
