I drink, smoke and take drugs... but I can still be President

WTF: Weekly Trivia File

•'I like having shows that are disasters.' Neil Hamburger comedian Gregg Turkington.

• Among the revelations in her one-woman show 30 Million Minutes is the fact that Dawn French calls her 42G 'norks' Ant and Dec.

• American comic Ron White, best known for his Blue Collar Comedy Tour, is standing for President. The 58-year-old comic threw his hat into the ring via AOL, showing that he'd filled in the required paperwork. He said: 'People have always asked me to run for president but I never took them too serious for the obvious reasons: I drink too much, I smoke too much, the women, the drugs… the list goes on and on and on but it doesn't mean I can't run this country.' He said that when watching recent TV debates between Republican candidates 'I did not believe one single word anybody said. It made me scared for my country and it made me think that if the American people, if it comes down it it, if you want me to do this, I'll go do it. I'll go to Washington and I will listen to these complex problems and I'll make the decision. I would rather have my finger on the button than anybody I saw up there so I am going to run for President of the United States.' Comedian Jimmy Morales was just elected President of Guatemala.

• John Oliver has become a father for the first time, after and his wife Kate Norley, a former U.S. Army combat medic and veterans-rights advocate, gave birth to a baby boy.

• Australian comedian, Dr Who fan, and David Tennant looky-likey Rob Lloyd unveiled this Lego-built beauty on Bondi Beach this week, to mark a festival dedicated to the sci-fi show in Sydney:

This week's #DoctorWho's Day roundup has a distinctly Lego-ish theme: https://t.co/sn8UCfgHSe pic.twitter.com/HPVjwVEIj4
— anglophenia (@anglophenia) November 10, 2015

• Rowan Atkinson's divorce was settled in a 65-second hearing at London's Central Family Court this week. His wife of 24 years, Sunetra, filed not he grounds of his 'unreasonable behaviour' in leaving her for 32-year-old comedy actress Louise Ford, whom he met 18 months ago.'Sunetra was deeply upset to be replaced by such a younger woman,' a source told the Daily Telegraph.

• The US version of the Office almost had a different theme tune, star Rainn Wilson has revealed. In his new memoir, Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy Better Things, he reveals that show runner Greg Daniels seriously considered Better Things by the Kinks, Float On by Modest Mouse and Mr. Blue Sky by Electric Light Orchestra… but they eventually went for this by Jay Ferguson:

• The Kurupt FM crew are making their Champagne Steam Rooms club night a reality. The team from BBC Three's mockumentary People Just Do Nothing – Grindah, DJ Beats, Decoy and Steven 'Steves' Green – will take over Koko in Camden on February 4, following a previous night at the Brixton Academy last year.

• Hasn't he changed! A comic called Jason Andors posted this video on YouTube this week showing him being introduced on to the stage in 1995 by one Zach Galifianakis, looking a million miles from the guy who got famous via The Hangover:

Tweets of the week

They want to water it down & then charge a fortune for you to use it. That's not #homeopathy - it's the Tory plan for the NHS.
— Boothby Graffoe (@boobygraffoe) November 13, 2015