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Remembering Robin and Rik

WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• ‘I am a very nice girl. I have no intentions of being a dominatrix.’ Katherine Ryan.

Jimmy Cricket is to release a comedy single about Luis Suarez biting Italy's Giorgio Chiellini at the World Cup. Here’s a sample of I Was Bit by Luis Suarez, which will be available from iTunes and other download sources from August 26. Here is a preview:

• You should google the word ‘askew’.

Rik Mayall has been commemorated with a 20ft mural on the doors of the Playhouse in Harlow, Essex, where he was born. Local street artist Dave 'Gnasher' Nash, who painted the work, which was approved by the local council, said: 'I grew up watching Rik Mayall in The Young Ones and Bottom It blew my mind when I found out he was from Harlow too, and I wanted to remember his life in some way in the town.' Mayall died in June, aged 56.


• ‘In America they really do mythologize people when they die’ Robin Williams.

• Williams was a shoe-in for what was originally the small role of Mork in Happy Days. Producer Garry Marshall remarked that he Williams was the only alien to try out for the part: ‘I will never forget the day I met him and he stood on his head in my office chair and pretended to drink a glass of water using his finger like a straw.’

• At Redwood High School in California Williams was voted ‘least likely to succeed’.

• Robin Williams is to become a character in World of Warcraft. The comic was a gamer, who even named his daughter Zelda in reference to the Nintendo Legend of Zelda. He’s also been remembered in Roy Chubby Brown says he’s going joke about Robin Williams on stage. ‘I’ve just written down, “knock, knock”, the audience are going to say “who’s there”. I’m going to say ‘Robin Williams: I’m not dead yet, will you open this f*****g box. As daft as it is, people will laugh at it. I know what they’ll laugh at and I know what they won’t laugh at.’

• Then there’s this story, told by Norm MacDonald via Twitter:

• ‘He was like the Muhammed Ali of comedy.’ Jimmy Fallon.


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• Tweets of the week
Jason (@ NickMotown ): Only recently found out that 50 Cent wasn't one half of Dollar. Embarrassing.
Gary Delaney (@GaryDelaney): Obviously I'm disappointed to he refused planning permission to build myself a house on this plot of land, but I'm not going to dwell on it.
Brian Bliston (@@brian_bilston): Girl, are you pre-colonial Africa? 'Cos although I've caressed your coasts, I've not yet been able to penetrate your interior.

Published: 15 Aug 2014

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