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WTF: Weekly Trivia File

Ozzy Osbourne prepares for his gigs by listening to Monty Python. Tom Larkin of Shihad, Black Sabbath’s support band on their current tour down under, reported before one show that ‘Ozzy is blasting the soundtrack to Monty Python’s Life Of Brian through the walls of our dressing room.’

Matt Lucas tweets: ‘Walking down the street just now and someone yells 'Hi Matt' at me from their car and I turned and it was David Beckham.’

Richard Pryor’s widow Jennifer has accused Eddie Murphy of stealing her late husband’s act. At a screening of a new documentary Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic this week, she said: ‘Eddie, of course, stole a lot of Richard’s stuff. Let’s be honest, he did. Including the red leather fucking suit, by the way.’ And she offered one explanation as to why Murphy did not appear in the film, even though Pryor was his hero. ‘He admired Richard, this was the cat he was chasing, this was the guy, the man, the Mack,’ she said. ‘But, y’know, at the end of the day, he’s gotta fuckin’ hate him on some level, because he’s never gonna be Pryor, is he? He’s never gonna be Pryor.’

Sarah Millican says she’s finally moved in with boyfriend Gary Delaney after seven years together because ‘I just got sick of taking the bins out.’

Enjoy the silence. After last week’s video offering, here’s another horribly racist comedian, this time on Sky’s old talent show Star Search. He’d apparently worked the clubs for five years when this car-crash was recorded:

As well as praising his friend Peter Cook at the Establishment Club this week, Stephen Fry shared a story of hobnobbing with Prince Charles. Apparently when William and Harry were younger, their dad asked Fry to enthuse them about Shakespeare, as they hated the Bard. The comic gladly obliged and spent a car journey explaining The Tempest to the princes before they went to see it. But still they hated the play. Fast forward to last year, when Fry met Prince William in Los Angeles – only to be greeted with: ‘Oh, it’s you! Bloody Shakespeare. Go away!’

Katt Williams has escaped jail for leading police on a high-speed chase. Cops tried to apprehend the comic when they spotted him riding a three-wheeled motorcycle on the sidewalk in Sacramento, California, in November - but when he spotted them, he sped off. He had been charged with evading police, but that was downgraded in court yesterday, and he was sentenced to 428 hours of community service.

Comedians who ran the London Marathon last week include Rob Deering (in 3:29:09, raising more than £10,000 for Parkinson's UK); Eddie Nestor (raising £3,700 for a blood/bone marrow donation charity); Paddy Lennox (4:03.24, raising £2,100 for children with hemiparesis)

Tweets of the week
Robin Flavell (@RobinFlavell): I once used a lavatory after George Osborne. He had left a particularly gross domestic product :(
Tony Cowards (@TonyCowards): When I told my wife that I'd lost the DVD of our wedding she ripped me a new one.
James Martin (@Pundamentalism): It's nonsense that men think about sex every seven vagina.