The Weekly Trivia File

• Ricky Gervais: ‘If anyone thinks I'm going to rethink my act in the present "watch what you say" climate, they've got another fucking puff rapist cunt Jesus tits Aids cock-sucking think coming.’

• Talking of Mr Gervais, does this guy remind you of anyone?
  

• Brace yourself for the tsunami of moral indignity: Sacha Baron Cohen’s Bruno movie features a black model called Jesus, who is shown wearing a loincloth and a crown of thorns.

• When Dom Joly's TV career took off, he decided he wanted to fly and bought a £65,000 First World War-type biplane. But he admits: ‘It sat in my garden for ages before I moved it to an airfield and was told that I’d bought a dud. It flew once before I sold it for £10,000. It was utterly embarrassing.’

• It's the height of summer in Sydney... but that didn’t stop John Cleese popping into a solarium to top up his tan last week. While there, he signed an autograph: ‘Dear Mark. You have a very beautiful wife, much more so than the one I am currently divorcing. John Cleese.’

• Mathew Horne winds up gossip columnists by feeding them false stories. Tall tales that he’s previously placed in the press include the news that he was bitten by a snake in London, that had his watch stolen by a seagull, and that he had sex with the manager of Charlton Athletic in the toilets at trendy London hang-out Shoreditch House.

• Interesting choice of adverts during the Big Tobacco satire Thank You For Smoking on Film Four last night. Moments after Aaron Eckhart’s spin-doctor character comes close to dying after kidnappers cover his body in nicotine patches came a commercial for, you guessed it, nicotine patches. Nice work.

• We often feature clips of hecklers here – but it’s not just stand-ups who get targeted. Here’s the host of a religious public access show in the US having a spot of trouble of his own:
  

• Russell Brand’s career doesn't seem to have been too badly hit by that phone call scandal - but the same can’t be said of his lookalike. Joe Davis, who supplements his income as a waiter at the Strada restaurant in Cheltenham by hiring himself out as Brand's doppelganger, says: 'It seems that the public’s attitude to Russell Brand has soured badly. I’ve only had one booking since the whole fiasco started when I would normally expect half a dozen or more.’ The 21-year-old, pictured above, added: ‘He is a very difficult man to imitate. But once I have a drink or two I can give it my best shot.’

• Meanwhile, the real Mr Brand has gutted an entire floor of his four-storey home in North London to create a huge yoga gym – reportedly to help him be more flexible in his sexual shenanigans.

• Graham Norton on his role in La Cage Aux Folles: ‘I look like a big lump of an ugly drag queen. I look like the Beast of Bodmin Moor.’

SOURCES: Rickygervais.com, CollegeHumor.com, The Sun, Sunday Times, Popbitch, The Guardian , Chortle, Break.com, Cheltenham Citizen, Daily Mirror, Daily Telegraph

Published: 9 Jan 2009