WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• ‘It can be a wonderful thing to be funny, but I think it comes from some kind of damage.’ Sarah Silverman./li>

• Is this the start of a proper feud? Beatboxer Beardyman Twittered: ‘I now have personal beef with Michael Mcintyre … [He] tried to do a bit of my set when he came on after me at a corporate event just now. Stick to stand-up fat boy. You suck.’ However, it seems this not the chash it could have been, as last night the muso wrote: ‘Me and M McIntyre hugged it out and are friends now. He's very cuddly. And my mum thinks he's great, which I told him. He was pleased.’

• Jimmy Carr handed round boxes of Krispy Kreme doughnuts to the audience in the interval of his tour warm-up show at London’s Hen And Chickens theatre this week.

• Mark Watson is bracing himself for criticism for appearing in reality cooking show. Marco's Kitchen Burnout. He said: ‘You could quite easily say, “He used to do funny stand-up and now he messes around in a kitchen”. But what I would probably say about people who criticise comedians that have become more well-known is that they usually have some sort of axe to grind. Also, I don’t think I’m well-known enough to get any genuine spite…. I got away with advertising Magners last year, so If I can get away with that, I reckon I can get away with a TV show.’

• Pippa Evans is among the many comedians stranded around the world by the volcanic ash. She’s stuck in Hong Kong with the musical improv group Showstoppers – and to pass the time recorded this video from her hotel room:
  

• In further ash-related news, Ricky Gervais paid £12,000 to have a private helicopter on standby to take him to his gig in Dublin this week, in case the ban on jets was still in place. ‘Every other fucker is cancelling left, right and cunting centre,’ he said. ‘I’m forking out like a right twat...’

• It's Brendon Burns MP! But not the comedian, sadly: His namesake is the Labour MP for Christchurch Central in New Zealand...
  

• Eddie Murphy: ‘When I used to go out in the old days I was the cool dude in the club with the glasses on in the corner. You can't do that when you're 49. You got your glasses on in the corner and you look creepy. A lot has changed’rn

SOURCES: Time, Twitter, The Independent, Digital Spy, YouTube, Rickygervais.com, Hollywood.com

Published: 23 Apr 2010