What's a girl got to do to get noticed?
WTF: Weekly Trivia File
• 'Thank Fuck It's Friday could be a Stones song.' Ricky Gervais assesses his own songwriting skills.
• You might have thought Sarah Alexander running through a busy street in her underwear might attract attention… but apparently not. The comedy actress had to do just that for the new series of Gold's sitcom Marley's Ghosts – which starts on September 30 – but says it didn't go to plan. 'We filmed me running in my knickers through streets of Ealing to get people's genuine reaction,' she said. 'But nobody noticed, nobody reacted. So we had to do it again, this time with me shouting.'
• Nicholas Parsons is a member of the Worshipful Company of Clock Makers.
• Facepalm time. Mucking about on stage of Belfast's Empire Comedy Club, comic Simon O'Keeffe asked the audience if anyone wanted a Tesco voucher he'd found in his wallet. An English voice shouted from the darkness that she did, and in the ensuing conversation said she was called Sophie and was an actress, but wouldn't reveal her last name or what she'd been in. Naturally he started ribbing her about her lack of fame, boasting that he was much more successful thanks to his role in an online ad for Harp lager. But although he didn't recognise the actress, plenty of others did – as Game Of Thrones star Sophie Turner, aka Sansa Stark. And she was at the club Maisie Williams, who plays her sister Arya.
• Johnny Vegas sparked a security scare at the Paralympics by leaving a bag unattended in the athletics stadium. The comic, who was in Rio for Channel 4's The Last Leg, said: 'It was nearly a major international incident,' he said. 'They were going to shut down a section of the stadium and evacuate it. I came back just in time.'
• Awful clickbait from the Mirror today, which runs an online story: 'Alexander Armstrong for Bake Off? Pointless presenter gearing up for "big Friday announcement" on social media.' What it failed to mention was that the tweet included a link to the cover of his new music album, Upon A Different Shore, which is expected to be released later this year. So, you know, maybe it was that and sod all to do with Bake Off.
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Fun with autofill. Here's what people are asking, based on typing the first part of these sentences and letting Google do the rest:
Is Lee Evans… rich?
Is Josh Widdicombe… related to Ann Widdecombe?
Is Russell Howard… left-handed?
Is Dara O Briain… a dentist?
Is Frankie Boyle… ginger?
Is Michael McIntyre… Scottish?
Is Jo Brand… related to John Sergeant?
• Amy Schumer was hospitalised after suffering food poisoning in Paris this week. She kept her fans up to date on Instagram, including making a spoof dating website video:
• Jim Davidson unexpectedly turned up at a ploughing and hedge-laying competition in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, earlier this month. Only to watch we should add…
Tweets of the week
Friend: I change my Facebook password from time to time.
— Mark Simmons (@BigBirdSheeran) September 10, 2016
Me: that's not changing it, it's keeping it the same
My mum used to tuck my little brother in when he was a kid,
— Duck Face (@londonlass666) September 16, 2016
she'd always wanted another girl.
I'm the boss of a company making a drug against flatulence.
— Daniel Edison (@DanielEdison_) September 12, 2016
The workers are bad. I've only been there a week and I've already let one go.
Published: 16 Sep 2016
