WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• ‘I'm not condoning torture, but…’ Richard Littlejohn in the Daily Mail today. You couldn't make it up.

• Mat Horne says he finds sex ‘embarrassing’. He said: ‘When you have sex, there is always someone else there, the other person - that's the thing. The situation is just embarrassing.’ And he says that although he receives plenty of female attention because of his Gavin & Stacey fame ‘I'm definitely not Russell Brand.’

• Talking of Mr B, his fiancé Katy Perry hired a skywriter to express her feeling for him. ‘The first time I told Russell I loved him, I did it with skywriting,’ she said. ‘He had not told me he loved me yet, and I decided to take the chance because I could feel it was coming. So I got everything ready. We were at his house - he has a house on Sunset Boulevard by the Chateau Marmont - and I told him to look up and there was “I love you” in the sky! He was overwhelmed, of course.’

• ‘The Queen is here in New York today,’ Ricky Gervais writes on his blog. ‘Hope she's got sunblock on, because as she would say, "It's so fucking hot; one is sweating like a cunt."’

• John Bishop says he once insisted a heckler STAY in his show – because the audience was so small. The Liverpudlian comic says the chatty punter got up to leave the gig in Leeds after being put down so many times. but was told: ‘Look, you can't go. There are only 17 people here.’ Bishop added: ‘Hecklers just want to join in. They're not there to ruin the show because they're part of it. You've just got to manage them.’

• Dave Gorman is going to be a member of the presenting team for Bravo's coverage of the European Darts Championship

• One YouTube ranter makes a decent point about how innovative, political, socially conscious, intelligent comics are ignored in favour of bland, vanilla middle-of-the-road stand-ups… Then ruins it all by citing Dane Cook as a hero:
  

• Alan Carr said he felt like Evita when he stuck his head out of a third floor window of media haunt Soho House, as Gay Pride was happening in the street below. The crowd started chanting: ‘Al-an, Al-an.’ The comic said: ‘I felt like Eva Peron standing on the balcony and being greeted by all these screaming people. It was crazy. Never heard anything like it.’

• Meanwhile, Lily Allen has replied to Carr calling her a ‘fucking bitch’ for canceling her appearance on Chatty Man with just two hours’ notice. ‘Sorry Alan, but I can’t help being ill,’ she Tweeted. ‘If it’s any consolation I feel awful. I wouldn’t have been any fun at all… I do think your comments are a bit strong though. Unless you were being sarcastic and your words were taken out of context.’

• Michael Palin, who’s just released the third installment of his diaries in paperback, says: ‘I’m often asked to write Python material when I do a book signing. I just write “ni”.’

• Jason Manford Tweets today: ‘Absolutely boiling after getting off stage, think my balls are actually liquid. Ladies?’

SOURCES: Daily Mail via @tabloidwatch, The Sun, Star magazine, RickyGervais.com, BBC Press, davegorman.com, You Tube, Mirror, Twitter, Metro, Twitter

Published: 9 Jul 2010