Is Jesus one of those freaky fetishists?

WTF: Weekly Trivia File

‘I’m not in the business of upsetting people – but it’s a byproduct of what I do.’ Jim Jefferies

Sir Ian Mckellen asked TV bosses to change the title of his new ITV sitcom … because he didn’t like the connotations of the original name, Vicious Old Queens. The 73-year-old joked: ‘When it was suggested to me that I might be involved, I said, “What on earth do you mean? I'm most offended - I'm not old!”’ The show, which also stars Derek Jacobi, is now called just Vicious.

Seinfeld has topped £2billion in earnings from its reruns in the 15 years since it aired, according to the Financial Times. That means that the show generates more income per year than the world’s three poorest countries added together, using UN GDP figures.

Surely a must for every comedy fan: order your Armando Iannucci long-handled shopping bag here … but not before you’ve enjoyed the delightful buyers’ comments.

A tiny extra joke in the official programme for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, now on down under. Between page 48 and 50 is, labelled in tiny type, ‘Page Dave’ - since all 11 stand-ups plus one character act on that page have that forename. Kudos, too, the sketch quartet Aunty Donna who used the synopsis for Cool Runnings for their programme entry.

Serious business comedy... Here’s a weird short film making it seem even more serious:

They don’t mess about, do these PR types. No sooner had Simon Brodkin been released without charge for trespassing on the Goodison Park pitch in the guise of his Premiership player Jason Bent. than his agents Avalon released a statement saying: ‘Jason Brent to tour’ alongside Brodkin’s other creation Lee Nelson on his already-announced dates. ‘The surge in popularity has seen clips of Jason Bent viewed more than a million times on You Tube and saw him trending on Twitter last week,’ the press release read. If a well-publicised arrest now equals ‘a surge in popularity’, Dave Lee Travis has never been more popular...

A tale from the late-night world stand-ups inhabit... This week comics Bob Slayer and Tim Renkow were enjoying a post-gig drink when I man came up to Renkow, who has cerebal palsy, and repeatedly told him: ‘Jesus loves you.’ Slayer said: ‘I felt like I was in one of Tim`s jokes so I delivered his punchline,. "Oh no, is Jesus another of those freaky fetishists?".’ The man then told Slayer it was ‘very good what you are doing’. ‘What is it that I am doing that’s very good?,’ he replied. ‘I don’t think i should be congratulated for using my disabled friend to get a late drink in a bar which would never normally let me in – and now it seems this bar is home to patronising morons like you. Fuck you, you fucking fuck...’ Then they went off to another boozer.

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