WTF: Weekly Triva File

• Jerry Seinfeld thinks stand-up is like being a plumber - 'because you can take time off when you want to'.

• Now Kelsey Grammer has seen another of his sitcoms been axed, perhaps he should consider an alternative career… perhaps in porn. He recalls: 'I was offered a porno film when I was 18 years old. A guy in Fort Lauderdale had a big yacht and he wanted to do a film about a young man and two women and he wanted to call it Bermuda Triangle. It was like 10,000 bucks, which was more than I had ever seen in my life. But I realised it would be a bad idea.'

• Ricky Gervais made a 'note to self' ahead of hosting the Golden Globes: 'Don't blaspheme on air you dopey fucker. Or swear. So don't get drunk in case. Just a small one to steady the nerves....Oh shit.... God I'm a cunt.'

• More on the plagiarism debate that has leapt from the pages of Chortle to the national press. Dan Antopolski’s award-winning joke: ‘Hedgehogs? Why can’t they just share the hedge?’ has been made into a T-shirt, being sold online for £15. Needless to say, he gave no permission for this, and won't see a penny…

• Has fame changed Alan Carr? Well he's got a personal trainer. 'I have to go running with her and then do sit-ups in the park,' he said. 'It's horrendous, I'm scared I'll lie in dog poop.'

• Jeremy Hardy's great-great-grandad was in the Confederate Navy in the American Civil War

• The title of Frankie Boyle's next tour is causing some venues to come over all coy. The Royal & Derngate in Northampton chooses to bill it as 'live tour 2010' rather than it's full title: I Would Happily Punch Every One Of You In The Face.

• David Walliams: 'It would be embarrassing now if I got embroiled in some sort of terrible sex and drugs scandal because I've got a children's book out.'

• Stand-up Joel Sanders suggested his own bad gig for this week's YouTube clip. So here goes:
  

• Ross Noble would like on his gravestone: 'Here lies Ross Noble, in some ways he made no sense, in some ways he made perfect sense.'That or an arrow at a certain height saying 'You must be this tall to grieve.'

• The Daily Express today reports that Angus Deayton is to star as a sleazy swinger in the new film Swinging with the Finkels, alongside Martin Freeman… a mere seven weeks after we mentioned it on Chortle.

• Search Ticketmaster for Sean Lock tickets and it asks whether you meant 'Swan Lake'. Close, but not quite…

SOURCES: GQ, New York Post, RickyGervais.com, The Sun, Closer, South Wales Daily Post, Chortle, London Evening Standard, Joel Sanders, The Sun, Daily Express, Chortle

Published: 13 Nov 2009