The week's comedy trivia

• The things you learn at the Fringe, even if you don’t want to. There’s a sexual fetish called Hot Geoffrey, in which one person wraps cling-film over their face then gets their partner to defecate over them. Thanks Nique Woodhouse, who demonstrates the practice in his comedy show Dear Future Wife. With brown sauce, we should add, not the real thing. Or at least, that’s what we took the phrase ‘Daddy’s Sauce’ to mean…

• According to PopBitch, an tantalisingly unnamed ‘half of a British comedy duo’ liked to be ‘rogered up the backside with a large black dildo’.

• Alan Carr has been shooting his mouth off about the way Channel 4 forces evicted housemates on to his Friday Night Project. ‘It’s the one thing that pisses me off,’ he says. ‘These fucking morons get kicked out of the house and we have to talk to them.’

• Penelope Keith has upset locals in the Highland willage of Avoch with her ‘arrogant’ plans to open a café.

• In the last Thick Of It special, a frustrated political editor yelled at his assistant: ‘Just tell me what the fucking news is and I'll put it on the front page. It's not like we're the Independent. We can't just stick a headline saying CRUELTY then stick a picture of a dolphin or a whale underneath it.’ Wednesday's Independent front page featured a picture of a dolphin and the headline: EXTINCT

SOURCES: Chortle, Popbitch, Word, The Times, MediaGuardian

Published: 17 Aug 2007