Hugh’s Laughing Now?

Funnyman Hugh Grant found himself facing his biggest challenge recently when he realised, halfway through a posh sporting banquet at Hampton Court Palace that he was required to make an after dinner speech. 'I hadn't prepared a speech,' Grant tells the Mirror, 'and I panicked.' 'I could only think of three football stories - each one more revolting than the last. And I drank so much that I went to the loo and thought, "Can I tell this story?" and I thought, 'Yes, I can!' 'The punchline was "Show us your hairy bush,"' explains Hugh, but the joke, it seems, was rather poorly received. 'There was dead silence all over Hampton Court, 2000 people. I've never died so badly.' Thankfully help was at hand from an unlikely source. 'The person who saved me was ex-sports minister Tony Banks, who, I think, also had a few drinks. He shouted: 'Show us your hairy cock!', which went down even worse.'