WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• 'Bill Cosby, in spite of whatever he did off stage, was funny without being vulgar.' Letter to the Buffalo News in the US, complaining that Tracy Morgan swears a lot on stage. Clearly WAY worse than what Cosby did.

• Alan Carr has revealed that he once spent a night on the town with Prince Harry. The comic yesterday told how he met the royal in a nightclub. 'He came over to me and said in a posh voice, "Where's your glasses?",' Carr told Lorraine Kelly on her TV show. 'We started dancing together and I got carried away and I pulled his tie. We were on the floor, rolling. His security are rubbish though. I wasn't even tasered.'

• A fan once sent Ed Byrne a knitted leprechaun.

• Troubled American comic Katt Williams has been at it again: arrested for allegedly punching a pool store employee in the state of Georgia. Reports say the stand-up put down $1,500 on the counter and reacted when the clerk tried to move it. This comes as an attorney accused Williams and about 15 members of his entourage and security team of physically attacking and stealing cellphones from five women in Atlanta. Among the many questions that begs is why does a comedian need a 15-strong 'entourage'?

• An arrogant fuckwit disrupted Frankie Boyle's show in Ipswich last week, forcing the comedian to leave the stage until the idiot had left. Audiences are warned before the show that there's no readmission if you leave the auditorium, in a move designed to minimise disruption for everyone else. But this guy thought the middle of the show was the perfect time to dispute the policy, bringing the performance to a crushing halt, as fans booed him:

• Liam Gallagher once threatened to stab Sacha Baron Cohen in the eye. The former Oasis frontman made the threat at the GQ Men Of The Year awards in 2012, after the comedian DIDN'T take the piss out of him on stage. They had a contretemps after the ceremony – during which Gallagher repeatedly and aggressively asked Baron Cohen 'Who's the greatest living pop star?' only to insist the correct answer was John Lennon. Then he returned to the fact that Baron Cohen didn't made the joke he'd promised, and threatened to stab him in the eye. 'I've never heard such a specific threat,' Cohen told US chat show host Conan O'Brien – but luckily the singer didn't go through with his threat.

Tweets of the week

I've got a pair of very tight rubber gloves to give away, if anybody wants to take them off my hands.

— Moose Allain (@MooseAllain) 1 March 2016

You raise awareness but you'll never be its real dad.

— Paul (@bingowings14) 23 February 2016

#WorldBookDay
Forgot they had to be in costume, so they're going to school as pages 89 & 165 of the Argos catalogue pic.twitter.com/5JHnHlRbte

— Joe Heenan (@joeheenan) March 3, 2016

Published: 4 Mar 2016