'I employed a team to find women for me...'

WTF: Weekly Trivia File

  • 'Am I really considered to be more of a gag man than an observational comedian? I hadn't noticed.' Stewart Francis.

  • Russell Brand used to have a 'team of experts' to help find women to sleep with. He said: 'When I was at my most promiscuous I was like a charging locomotive. I had a team of experts who took care of finding women for me. They had very specific instructions. It was as if I was talking to a wine steward, "I’m looking for something French, a bit fruity, smells of oak"." But he added: 'When you sleep with loads of women, it becomes a bit pointless and futile.'

  • Rowan Atkinson is to race around Silverstone tomorrow in the Aston Martin British GT4 Challenge, sharing the driving in the two-hour arc e with former world rally champion David Richards.

  • The Leicester Comedy Festival’s Comedy In The Dark gig, which is coming to Edinburgh this August, claims to be doing its bit for the environment – as with no stage lights, there’s a lower carbon footprint. But how muc h is it really saving? Chortle has got out its fag packet and worked out that lighting an hour-long show emits about the same amount of carbon as one car driving the grand total of … 600 yards If you need the maths: A par 64 LED can stage light consumes about 30W. Assume six needed to light an hour-long show=0.18kWh. A coal power station emits about 1kg of carbon dioxide for every kWh generated, so one show would be responsible for about 180g of CO2. Meanwhile, an average family car emits 500g of CO2 per mile – so it’s the equivalent of driving just over 600 yards.

  • After performing at the Daphne Du Maurier Festival in Fowey, Cornwall, the Early Edition team of Phill Jupitus, Marcus Brigstocke, Carrie Quinlan and Andre Vincent forgot to buy any traditional pasties for the trip. So, in desperation they Twittered a request for people to meet them on railway platforms en route and supply them with the pastry-based snacks. Did they get any..?

  • Richard Herring on Peter Kay: 'I don't really see the point and it disappoints me that he's popular'.

  • Bob Golding's incredible portrayal of Eric Morecambe has won him rave reviews in the West End, at Edinburgh and on tour. But there is one place he wasn't welcome. 'They wouldn’t let us do the show in Morecambe itself as they thought it was a tribute act,’ he says. Eric's home town eventually cottoned on, but by then the tour was fully booked.

  • Ricky Gervais went for a workout in his hotel gym this week… with Elvis Costello.

  • Aussie comic Damien Power gets a bit irritated with a heckler:

  • David Walliams was treated to the traditional strip at his stag do last weekend. Less traditional was the fact the dance was performed by pre-op transsexual Alison Dale.


SOURCES: Time Out, Playboy, Autoevolution, Chortle, Chortle, Den Of Geek, Birmingham Post, RickyGervais.com, YouTube, The Sun

Published: 21 May 2010

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