WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• 'I’m not that bothered about being funny any more.' Steve Coogan

• How popular is Michael McIntyre? Here are the scenes as he showed up for a book signing in Newcastle, while at other bookstores fans report waiting for more than seven and a half hour just to meet him...
  

• Scottish comic Janey Godley got a rise from 50 Cent after sending him a dozen provocative messages on Twitter. She took issue with the rapper after he started posting sexual late-night tweets such as ‘OK i just watched a porn clip and now im confused. dont know if i want a good girl or a whore. i got it i want a good girl whore. lol’ Godley then goaded him with a string of messages such as ‘if it wasn't the fact he is a big black man talking about his dick I wouldn't have known he was a rapper? Ignorance can b bliss’ and ‘you just be that 50cent who speaks to 'street' kids about 'respek' and stuff eh? Porn and good girl whores? Is that family?’ Eventually 50 Cent replied: ‘janeygodley take yo big ass to sleep if you dont like what im saying’. She replied with another half-dozen tweets such as ‘what you need is me there to press your button with my BIG ASS that u can't stop talking about’, but the rapper wasn’t going to be drawn into any further exchange.

• Phill Jupitus will be turning on the Christmas lights in Bideford, Devon

• Stephen K Amos got his kit off last weekend – for the children. He was hosting a charity auction at the Park Lane Hilton for the street kids of Sierra Leone when someone bid £6,000 for his trousers. So he duly removed them, and got a standing ovation to boot.

• Dave Gorman has made this video, proving that X-Factor's Shayne Ward is nicking comedian Chris Lynam's act:
  

• The titles of Jimmy Carr's DVDs make a sentence if you read them in order: Live Stand-Up Comedian In Concert Telling Jokes Making People Laugh.

• ‘I do have this fear that if I hear some comedian, a year later their material will come popping out of my mouth.’ Billy Connolly

• Car-crash stand-up gig of the week: Con-Dem... it's like condemned! Geddit?
  

• We thank the reader who sent a contribution to Chortle's Correspondents section this week, urging comedians to be themselves on stage. Under a pseudonym.

• 'Madonna is so white and veiny she looks like a condom full of stilton.' Russell Howard

• Tweets of the week:
  Dave Woodford (@makapala): Police investigate animal cruelty claims after man claims ‘his dog's got no nose’
  Pete Johansson (@escarius): 140 characters is almost enough to represent Sarah Palin’s mapped Genome. Bam! I just did that!
  Gary Delaney (@GaryDelaney): The 300th rule of OCD club is…

SOURCES: Daily Telegraph, YouTube, Twitter, North Devon Journal, Chortle, YouTube, Den Of Geek, Montreal Gazette, YouTube, Chortle, News Of The World, Twitter

Published: 12 Nov 2010