WTF: Weekly Triva File

• ‘There are probably about 50 comedians who would come to my 50th birthday party but I’m not sure how many of them would come to my funeral.’ Lee Mack

• After being called a ‘knobhead’ by Peter Kay on Tuesday’s Brits, Liam Gallagher hit back with typical eloquence. ‘Listen up fat fuck,’ he Tweeted. ‘As a real northerner I was brought up 2 say shit 2 people's faces not behind their back. Live forever LG.’

• Meanwhile James Corden reckons he could do a better job of hosting next year’s awards. ‘After watching Peter Kay I’m sure I could do better. Bring it on!’ he said. You might recall he hosted last year’s bash with Mathew Horne.

• Sky’s showbiz website printed a photo of stand-up John Bishop at the Brits after party with the caption ‘Bez from the Happy Mondays’ – until someone spotted the mistake. They clearly look absolutely nothing like each other as our picture shows… Or maybe they do.

• Someone’s been having fun on the Wikipedia page of Pappy’s Fun Club comedian Matthew Crosby. The ‘definitive’ reference source claims: ‘Matthew caused gluttonous controversy in June 2008 when he “laid waste” to a Bromley branch of Subway, his “escapade” was alleged to have cost the company over £15,000 in damages. A “spokeman” stated that “he” was “gnawing on bones, swigging ale from a flagon and hooting like a bad owl”. The incident has since been attributed to Matthew’s “Henry VIII problem” and he has assured Bromely Council that his behaviour is relatively unlikely to be repeated. Matthew rides a metallic blue BMX which he calls “the midnight wheel-horse”.’

• Sarah Silverman pretty much jokes about everything – including quipping about adopting a terminally ill ‘retarded’ child only this week. But there’s one topic even she considers offensive: Gags about fat chicks. ‘I don't really care for, like, fat jokes about women, specifically,’ she said. ‘Because I feel that we live in a society where fat men deserve love, and fat women do not deserve love – at least in white America. And so I feel like that’s an ugly thing, and it doesn’t make me laugh.’

• Mark Lamarr is the tenth most famous person to come out of Swindon.

• Imagine how The Office star Lucy Davis felt when she went to an audition for an advert to be told they were looking for someone like ‘Dawn From The Office’. What’s worse – she didn’t even get the role… Davis she showed up to a read-through without knowing much about what she was reading for. ‘I went into the waiting room and there were lots of blonde women, and I noticed them all staring at me,’ she recalled. ‘So I sat down and asked the woman next to me what the breakdown was. She said, “Dawn from The Office” – and I didn’t get the job! I found it hilarious.’

• Our YouTube clip of the week shows one comic battling through, despite a very dodgy stomach…
  

• How fickle the world of showbusiness journalism is – and how young it starts. Warrington schoolboy Aaron Ashton, 12, has just interviewed Tim Vine for a class project – but only after dumping John Bishop. He said: ‘We were supposed to be interviewing John Bishop but we found out Time Vine was coming to Warrington sooner so we decided to interview him instead.’

• Comedy agency Avalon this week decided to promote their client Danielle Ward by putting her showreel up on YouTube. But visit the page, and you get a message saying YouTube have blocked the footage on copyright grounds because it contains content owned by, erm, Avalon… Oops.
  

• David Mitchell used to work in the cloakroom for recordings of Chris Evans’s show TFI Friday – and says it’s the worst job he ever had. ‘I had to collect coats from the audience, who were under the impression they were going to a party,’ he said. ‘I’d say, “Give me your coat and bags”. They’d say, “I need my bag to buy drinks,” and I’d explain “You won’t be able to buy drinks. You’re in a studio audience without seats in the same room as a crane camera. There won’t be any drinks.” They didn’t take kindly to a party on TV turning into free labour.’ He admits he caused a lot of disappointment – ‘but disappointment for people I considered to be twats. If you’ve applied for tickets to stand around watching a recording of TFI Friday, you deserve what you get.’

• David Walliams and James Corden shared a passionate snog at a Fashion Relief show in aid of Haiti last night. They sauntered hand-in-hand down the catwalk in London’s Somerset House, before locking lips.

• Mathew Horne is obviously keeping busy these days. He just Tweeted: ‘Antony Worral-Thompson just said bastard on The Wright Stuff.’

SOURCES: Metro, Twitter, The Sun, Sky Showbiz, Wikipedia, CNN, Swindon Advertiser, Metro, YouTube, Warrington Guardian, YouTube, Metro, Mr Paparazzi, Twitter

Published: 19 Feb 2010