'We've all got issues. It's all about mummy innit?'

WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• 'Being naked does not embarrass me.' Angus Deayton

• David Walliams is being paid £50,000 to host each episode of The Nightly Show, The Sun reported yesterday. ITV – which saw ratings halve between the first two episodes (though bounce back a little later) – refused to be drawn on the figure. 

• Tommy Tiernan turned down the chance to appear on a Comedy Central show in Los Angeles because he has 'no interest' in working in America. The comic told the Irish Mirror: 'I got asked to do a show this morning in Los Angeles and I said no to it. I'm not addicted to TV. I'm not interested in the American market… I have much more of an interest in an organic life. For me to leave the house on a Thursday, drive down to Cork for shows and then come home on Sunday morning is normal for me.'

• Kumar Nish Kumar jokes in his set that he looks 'ethnically ambiguous', but the on-demand service Seeso has a rather different description in their programme guide… Wonder what 'ethnically ambitious' means?

• What says 'comedy' like a corporate property developer planning a 'distinctive content strategy'? Well, the builders of Two Fifty One – a new building in the fast-gentrifying London district of Elephant & Castle that will almost be as tall as The Shard, have turned to sitcom to try to persuade sophisticated urbanites what a great place it is to live. They've clearly lavished a lot of money on these web episodes.. Although the cash seems to have run out before they could run to any actual jokes. But see how effortlessly they sneak the journey time to Tower Bridge into the script

• Omid Djalili says Keith Richards was 'the most extraordinary,' actor he's ever worked with. On Pirates of the Caribbean 3, he played the father of Captain Jack Sparrow, who killed Djalili's character Pusasn for no reason. 'This seemed to bother him,' Djalili told the Galway Advertiser. 'In fact, he shot me about 14 times and after each take he'd come up to me and say, "Listen, you do know I don't mean this?" After every take. It was almost like a joke but it wasn't. Bang! and he'd shuffle up and say "Nothing personal mate, I hope you realise." Then after another take, with the same sincerity and intensity "It's all acting. You know that. You're not upset with me, are you?" Once he shot me and just said, "Forgive them Lord, they know not what they do." The final time he shot me he just stood over me and mumbled, "We've all got issues… 'It's all about mummy innit?" How right he was.'

• Rob Brydon took a trampette with him while filming The Trip To Spain with Steve Coogan.

• And Coogan described the show as 'Last of the Summer Wine for Guardian readers'.

• His extreme appetite for sex and drugs was once legendary… but when it comes to actual food Russell Brand admits he likes it bland, not spicy. So he had a tough time on the video podcast First We Feast, when he was interviewed by Sean Evans as he ate increasingly hot chilli sauce. 'I'll tell you what Sean, that's fucked me up,' he said on the newly released episode as the stronger spices kicked in. 'Something's happening to my consciousness. Is that the food? It's transcendent. It's kicking in. Ah god. I miss drugs…' Here's the full episode:

• Rufus Hound was once mistaken for Eddie Izzard by Paul Barber, who played Denzil in Only Fools and Horses. Speaking on Channel 4's Sunday Brunch, Hound revealed: 'I did running up and down the Embankment for Sport Relief once and the bloke that played Denzil in Only Fools and Horses? His daughter ran over and went, "My dad is a huge fan of yours!" So I walked over and he's like, "I just got to say everything you've been doing this year for Sport Relief's been absolutely amazing, a real massive effort". One of the legends of sitcom knows me, this is really great! Then he went, "Well, Mr Izzard, it was a pleasure to meet you…".'

• Girls star Lena Dunham has unveiled her new tattoo – which she calls a ‘tit chandelier’ – on Instagram

Thank you @trinegrimm for my warrior's chest plate/tit chandelier. This is my first original piece by a female tattoo artist and it felt sacred and cool and she didn't chide me for copying @badgalriri's placement. If you're ever in Oslo, go meet this metal queen and let her handle your body 🌖

A post shared by Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) on Mar 2, 2017 at 7:27pm PST

• Dawn French says the prosthetics that made her and Jennifer Saunders into fat old men for their sketch show cost £1,000 a piece – but she told Radio 2's Steve Wright that she thought the BBC would be reluctant to spend that sort of money on comedy today.

Tweets of the week

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— T'Other Simon (@TOther_Simon) February 27, 2017