You can't say 'scrotum' in front of Camilla

WTF: Weekly trivia file

•‘I am the funniest man in the world and I don’t like any other comedians.’ Jim Davidson. Who, incidentally, had dinner on Monday night with former South African president FW De Klerk.

• Joe Lycett was banned from saying the word ‘scrotum’ at this year’s Royal Variety Performance. The comic said he wanted to describe a woman as ‘looking like a scrotum’ at the show, which was recorded on Tuesday – but producers said he couldn’t say the word in front of Charles and Camilla. When Lycett mentioned the ban on Jon Holmes’s TalkRadio show this week, the presenter suggested: ’Perhaps it’s because Camilla looks a bit like a scrotum herself.’ There goes the knighthood…

• The shadow secretary of state for business, energy & industrial strategy was once asked to be Alan Carr’s bodyguard. Politics.co.uk reports how Clive Lewis was at school with the future comedian, and recalls: ‘The head teacher approached me and asked me to keep an eye out for this boy who he said was “a bit delicate but very funny”. It turned out to be Alan. I was supposed to be his sort of bodyguard but I don't think he was very keen.’

• Seems like Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t trust Chortle. Some of our followers on Facebook have apparently been asked to rate our headlines on how true to the story they are, in what’s believed to be a clampdown on clickbait or false news. The Guardian reported that headlines from Rolling Stone magazine and the Philadelphia Inquirer have also been subject to the same scrutiny.

Spotted this survey at the bottom of a Facebook post earlier. Must be part of a crackdown on clickbait. Interesting 🕵🏻‍♀️ pic.twitter.com/wZbLhof9k1
— Tom F (@_tomaf) December 2, 2016

• Sandi Toksvig says she has literally taken Stephen Fry’s seat on QI, telling Graham Norton that producers are using the same chair for her 5ft frame as his 6ft 5in one. ‘I’m actually on a box on the chair so I am raised up like it’s a high chair,’ she tells Graham Norton on his BBC One chat show tonight.

• An eagle-eyed fan has unearthed pictures of John Bishop during his former career as a field sales and marketing rep for a pharmaceutical company. Law student Eve Williams discovered the photos of the comedian in her mum's company handbook, where the comic is pictured mugging for the camera in a short sleeved shirt and tie combo, he is also seen in a not-at-all posed shot with a colleague. Bishop, confirmed the authenticity of the photos tweeting: ‘Wow that is 100% me… Strange how life pans out’

My mum just found her staff information booklets from an old job, looking good @JohnBishop100 😂 pic.twitter.com/Iz6RoffDqA
— Eve Williams (@Eve_Williams7) December 3, 2016

• Talking of former jobs, it has been revealed that Caroline Flack was a dancer in Proper Crimbo, the 2003 festive singer release by Keith Lemon creator Leigh Francis in his Bo Selecta days.. After Twitter user Dan Staples noticed itm she replied: ‘Sure was ... I was bubbles .. my first job.’