'Pressed against a big dildo...'

WTF: Weekly Triva File

  • Victoria Wood says: ‘Sugar was my drug of choice. I do have sugar once in a while but I limit it.’

  • Eddie Izzard ‘damaged something’ in my right ankle yesterday, on his mammoth run across Britain. ‘It could turn into something serious so I have had to run and walk through my 39th marathon today,’ he said.

  • From today’s Holy Moly! gossip mailout: ‘Which twat of a comedian used to try and get a young runner to join him in his dressing room to watch gay porn when he was recording a show? "I'm not gay" he told the producers "I'm just trying to control him.

  • Alan Carr was shocked by the Coco De Mer And John Stoddart art exhibition Love And Lust in London. Speaking at the gallery, he said: ‘It’s so packed in here, I’ve spent five minutes with my back pressed against a big dildo.’

  • Unlikely neighbourhood dispute of the week: Likely Lads actor Rodney Bewes is fighting George Harrison's widow Olivia's plans to replace 985m of razor wire around her Oxfordshire mansion because he says: 'My cat Maurice has been injured on that fence several times, once severing an artery that nearly killed him... It makes me sad when I come home to such a beautiful place and see this thing that makes it look like a war zone.' The wire was put up after a man broke into the property and stabbed Harrison in 1999.

  • Ruby Wax has started working in management training, teaching executives from the likes of Skype, Deutsche Bank and the Home Office about interpersonal skills. She said: 'I didn’t want a career doing comedy for the rest of my life, because eventually it will leave me, rather than me leaving it.'

  • A bit of a departure from our usual live comedy for this week’s YouTube clip:

  • Ricky Gervais saiys his favourite indulgences are 'cheese, wine and champagne... It's not rocket science. We're mammals. Mammals love alcohol. Drunkenness occurs the same in animals as in adults, from mammals down to insects. Antelopes eat fermented apples and go down to the watering hole the next day and they're hung over.'

  • Meanwhile, how desperate is Gervais for more awards? His publicists sent out a press release this week announcing that he had been nominated for ‘Performer of The Decade’ on American TV. The shortlist was drawn up by a blogger, based on what people were talking about on a forum for Hollywood awards obsessives that has just 1,700 members – that’s about a fifth the size of Chortle’s forums.

  • Jerry Sadowitz is to name his 2010 tour: I'd Happily Punch Frankie Boyle In Thhe Face, after Boyle announced that his would be called I’d Happily Punch Every One Of You In The Face


SOURCES:
Daily Mail, Twitter, Holy Moly!, thelondonpaper, Henley Standard, The Times, You Tube, Bon Appétit magazine, Chortle, jerrysadowitz.com

Published: 11 Sep 2009

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