'Picking on a disabled lad clearing up dirt...'
WTF: Weekly Trivia File
• 'I still regard myself as learning this craft ' Bill Bailey
• Daisy Steiner and Tim Bisley are hardly role models… but if you'd like to live their life, their flat from Spaced is now available to rent. Or at least a flat inside the building in Kentish Town, North London, that was used for exterior shots for the classic Channel 4 sitcom. It's available from Zoopla for just under £2,000 a month.
• Dylan Moran made a rather inappropriate appearance on ABC News in Australia when footage from Black Books was accidentally played out by mistake, at possibly the worst moment:
Terrible timing for ABC News B'fast tech stuff up. Michael Rowland's face says it all #mediawatch (via @newscomauHQ)
https://t.co/Bv4KDK2wNS
— Media Watch (@ABCmediawatch) July 17, 2015• When Eugene Mirman got a parking ticket in New Hampshire, he got the perfect revenge… taking a full-page ad in the local newspaper. The fine was just $15 for parking facing the 'wrong direction' but the comic believes he was a victim of injustice. So he wrote a long letter going in to great detail. 'What kind of horseshit charge is that?' he raged: 'It's illegal to back into a spot? Before I embarrass myself, I want to make sure that Portsmouth is still inside the United States and not considered a part of Iran?' Here's the full letter, originally posted on Reddit:
• Lost Voice Guy says he's having 'a stupid amnesty' at the Edinburgh Fringe, so people can ask him about his condition without dear of seeming stupid. The comic, real name Lee Ridley, said: I'm often getting asked if I really can talk after my gigs, because obviously pretending to be disabled for the sake of entertainment is perfectly acceptable? I've also been asked if I could still have a relationship even though I was disabled, and someone once asked if I wanted a list of doctors who could fix me. Quite simply, I'm sick of dealing with stupid people.'
• Adam Hills has revealed that Aussie tennis legend Pat Cash bullied him when he was a 16-year-old ball boy, describing it as 'the lowest moment of my life'. Speaking on The Last Laugh, he revealed he was humiliated at the Sydney Indoor International as Cash was taking on Ivan Lendl. 'Lendl had sawdust in his pocket and whenever he would put it on his grip he would then throw a bit on the court,' Hills said. 'Between changes of ends I had to go up and sweep the court… and Pat Cash came up and said, "You've missed a bit", and in front of everyone he made me sweep the court up again' Co-host Alex Brooker pointed out: 'Basically what happened was, Pat Cash was having a go at a disabled boy picking up dirt.' But three decades on and Hills got his revenge – with a game Cash coming on to the Channel 4 show to clear up after Hills:
• 'Women don't have the balls to tell a pun.' Stewart Francis.
• '…That and the fact that they are already unfairly and more harshly judged than male comics possibly deters them from performing a less mainstream style of comedy.'
• Tweets of the week
We use 'an' when the next word in a sentence starts with a vowel, or occasionally with the letter 'H', like 'an historic', or 'an hathaway'.
— Glenn Moore (@TheNewsAtGlenn) July 11, 2015"Does your child need supervision?"
"Yes please and could you give him spidey-sense as well?"
— Tony Cowards (@TonyCowards) July 16, 2015Now, hang on a second, @ASOS. So, if I have my legs crossed, then... oh. pic.twitter.com/r39XK5vkKD
— Ferdinand Kingsley (@ferdosnandos) July 13, 2015Published: 17 Jul 2015
