I thought a boob job would boost my stripping career

WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• 'Showbiz is a fickle old twat, who loves you one minute and then sleeps with Russell Brand behind your back. And brings you a mammoth yeast infection.' Dawn French.

• Sara Pascoe once wanted to be a stripper, and even went for auditions. 'I had this idea that if I got a job as a stripper, I would get a boob job with the money and then earn more money as a stripper,' she tells Rufus Hound on Radio 4's My Teenage Diary on Tuesday week (October 21). Now a proud feminist comedian she admitted: 'This is the thing about having morals and beliefs, they are a luxury. When you're really, really skint, it's like a prison when you have no money. At this point… I was working in a pub. My food budget was £10 a week. There was a Tesco where Value bread would get reduced to 10 pence. And I would freeze it, so it was always fine, and I would have tomato cup-a-soups and that's what I ate. Being poor is so horrible. And so something like "oh, you could earn £300 a week just talking to gentlemen and having drinks" is like "oh my god, that would be life-changing". Her episode, when she goes through her journal from the age of 19 and 20, goes out at 6.30pm om Tuesday

• Big Yin Super Hans is DJing at the Glastonbury Festival. Matt King will be adopting his Peep Show alter-ego in the Stonebridge Bar from 8pm to 9pm on the Saturday night.

• Irish comic Al Porter owns a pair of the black and white vertical striped trousers Billy Connolly famously wore on stage. "They have a piss stain in the middle from where he wet himself on stage in the [Dublin] Olympia,' Porter says. 'It's important to say it was back in his prime. Billy Connolly wetting himself now is very tragic.'

Fans of comedians' anecdotes will be happy to learn that Alan Davies As Yet Untitled returns to Dave tomorrow, to be screened at 10pm every night . Here are a couple of stories from the first couple of episodes...

• Sandi Toksvig once got drunk with fellow comedian Mike McShane in New York and persuade one of the horse and buggies that traditionally take tourists around Central Park to give them a lift to their swanky 82nd Street hotel. When they got there McShane decided he wanted to take a picture with the horse, so they posed, and roped in a fellow guest entering the building to take the snap. 'You should be in the picture as well!' McShane insisted, so another photo was taken. 'This was in the days when you had to go to the chemist to get your pictures,' Toksvig recalled. So about a week later Mike phoned me and said, "Sandi I got the pictures back.You know the guy with the horse?" I said, "Yes?" He said: 'It's Lionel Richie."'

• Catherine Tate once shaved off a former boyfriend's hair as punishment for him repeatedly coming home late, then keeping her awake with his loud snoring. She recalled: 'I wouldn't say I'm a vengeful person, but in the moment I thought, "Cut his hair off – that will teach him". So I did it. The moment I stopped cutting it, a voice in my head said, "You're fucking mental. You're absolutely crackers." It was the longest Night of My Life because there's nothing you can do. You can't put it back. You can't retract that. When he woke up, I was so petrified words couldn't come out. I watched him go to the bathroom, look up and I thought he was going to have a heart attack, and he was like, "What the fuck has happened to my hair?" I was about to say it was me, but then I said, "I don't know, you came home like that last night."'

• Graham Norton has launched his own wine label. His SaviGNon Blanc – his initials highlighted – is a New Zealand blend, which is said to be what he drinks on his BBC chat show. Proceeds from the £8.99 bottles, available from Majestic, go to the Dogs' Trust.

• Jimmy Carr threw a party at his house on Tuesday night with guests including Princess Beatrice, Kourtney Kardashian,Hugh Grant, Robbie Williams, Elton John, Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jeremy Clarkson.