The Secret Policeman's Ball has returned to a London stage after 17 years. John Cleese, who produced the early Amnesty International awareness- and fund-raisers, wasn't there - he was here in Australia doing the dead parrot sketch with John Laws (but that's another story) - but Eddie Izzard, the Gorillaz, Chevy Chase, Ian McKellen, Graham Norton, Tamsin Greig, Jo Brand, Jennifer Saunders, Richard E Grant, Al Murray and Meera Syal were. More here.

On Friday, a colleague was sent a link to a video showing some (fully clothed) simulated sexual shenanigans behind the scenes at the Disney theme park in France involving some very well known characters. Now Disney bosses are fuming about the incident or, more specifically, the leak of the video that means the likes of me - i.e. Joe Average Web Use - have seen it. According to this report, Disney officials have refused to say if anyone was sacked over the incident. And, no, I'm not going to post the video. You'll have to find it yourself.

I suppose I shouldn't complain that somebody put up one of those mobile flashing traffic signs to yell at people that there was no on-site parking at Roma St Parklands yesterday (due to the Multicutural Festival). Exactly why it was still flashing away this morning, I'm not sure.

As I said on the ie blog, I really enjoyed Lucia di Lammermoor, but there's one thing that's still nagging me. Has somebody in the costume department got it in for Michael Martin? In Romeo and Juliet, he had the world's worst wig. In Lucia his character, Arturo, he not only has Fabio-like locks, but what looks like doileys stitched on to his trousers.