No. 261.

In 2008, the Panel Prize of the Edinburgh Comedy Awards went to 'every comedian on the Fringe for making it happen'.

(Source: http://www.comedyawards.co.uk/panelprize.asp.)

No. 258.

Casablanca was adapted from a play called Everybody Comes to Rick's.

(Source: IMDB.)

No. 252.

Each of Nina Conti's Monkey puppets last about a year. She has to bid for replacements online because they are from a discontinued line of toys, and her fans are buying them in order to have one like her.

(Source: Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast.)

No. 245.

The creative team behind the London 2012 Opening Ceremony used the codename 'Betty' when refering to the Olympic cauldron. They named it after the executive producer's dog.

(Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/29/frank-cottrell-boyce-olympics-opening-ceremony.)

No. 244.

Richard Herring features in Bridget Jones' Diary. In the book, the protagonist is up in Edinburgh and considers whether to see his show.

(Source: Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast.)

No. 248.

Lucy Porter won a Time Out competition to be on the judging panel for the Perrier Award.

(Source: Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast.)

No. 237.

Robert Powell met his wife, Babs of dance troupe Pan's People, in the BBC bar. He saw them come in, but didn't have the courage to ask her out, so he took the whole group out for a drink instead.

(Source: Tales From Television Centre.)

No. 232.

The BBC once broke the world record for largest troupe of tap dancers. They staged a routine with five hundred and one performers in the circular quad in television centre.

(Source: Tales of Television Centre.)

No. 225.

Richard Herring once expanded a stand up routine about yoghurt into an hour's show.

(Source: Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast.)

No. 212.

Comedian Dave Gorman has both a Paul Daniels trick, and a character in Neighbours, named after him.

(Source: Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast.)

No. 209.

To publicise a student revue they were in at the Edinburgh Fringe, Stewart Lee, Richard Herring, and Emma Kennedy posed as a church group, handing out leaflets insisting their show be banned. They were successful - in that nobody came.

(Source: Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast.)

No. 208.

Matthew Crosby was so nervous when Ross Noble walked in to watch his first Edinburgh stand up show that he brought him onstage. Noble obliged and did fifteen minutes of material.

(Source: Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast.)

No. 200.

During his stint in What the Butler Saw, Ewan McGregor was in a scene in which he had to hide his genitals with a police helmet. Once he almost didn't cover it and shocked a bunch of elderly women in the front row. He enjoyed the reaction so much that he never completely covered up again.

(Source: The Graham Norton Show.)

No. 183.

In Newman and Baddiel's big Wembley gig (which allowed them to become the first comedians to play the stadium), Richard Herring and Sally Phillips are in the front row. Baddiel spent a significant proportion of his time talking to Richard.

(Source: Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast.)

No. 182.

During one of his ten stand up gigs, Nick Frost had a fist fight with a man in the front row.

(Source: Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast.)

No. 170.

Whilst he was a teenager, Danny DeVito and a few of his friends staged a murder. They chased one of their number down the street, "shot" him with a staring pistol, and then threw him in the back of their car before driving off.

(Source: Empire magazine.)

No. 101.

During his stint as a waiter, between serving tables, Graham Norton would put a tea towel on his head and pretend to be Mother Theresa. This formed the basis of his first live act.

(Source: Mark Lawson Talks To... Graham Norton.)

No. 93.

Joanna Page once performed in a school production of 'As You Like It' for a royla gala held in Buckinham Palace.

(Source: The Graham Norton Show.)

No. 32.

A Simon Callow theatre production is sufficiently long enough so that you can walk out of, see a full film at a nearby cinema, and return to find the show is still going.

(Source: Lecturer anecdote.)

No. 29.

In a college production of A Christmas Carol, Dustin Hoffman, playing Tiny Tim, for a bet, changed the last line from "God bless everyone!" to "God bless everyone, goddamn it!". He was subsequently suspended.

(Source: IMDB.)