Good to see Australian audiences keeping up our rep as comedy fans on the edge of the edgy: Chris Rock has caused an outbreak of the sooky la las after getting blue at a surprise gig in Sydney. What were they expecting, Adam Hills & The Cuddly Fun Nanna Hour (with Rove on warm-up duties)?

According to Confidential spies, the 25-minute routine featured the "f" word more times than a Ramsay cooking episode - playing fun with everything from Barack Obama to Australia's origins as a convict country.

Ahead of his first tour of Australia, Rock, known for his no-limits, confrontational style, was accompanied by an entourage of seven and the star was dressed smartly in a black trench coat.

Roxbury Hotel staffer Chris Strickland said he thought the venue was being "punked" when Aussie promoter Artie Lang called on the night to arrange the secret slot.

The Saturday Night Live star did not explain his motives for the impromptu, preview gig, but it proved a cheap thrill for the lucky 100 in the pub on the night.

Ha ha, that use of "punked" in inverted commas says it all, really. Top work, Chris Strickland - to the top of the Jazz Randyboy class go you! In any case, now seems as good a time as ever to share one of my favourite Chris Rock Show highlights with you all, How Not To Get Your Ass Kicked By The Police - over the jump.

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As we learned recently, SNL's Chris Farley was far from coddled or loved during his final years by fellow cast members. And now, a new biography on Chris Farley titled The Chris Farley Show will divulge more depressing tales from friends of Farley and how exactly they went about attempting to help the struggling addict get better (hint: they didn't). From former co-stars dishing on his desperate attempts to be loved using prostitutes to anecdotes involving his habit of licking everything from his shoelaces to his wallet, one revelation made by Chris Rock stands out:

"'Chippendales' was a weird sketch. I always hated it...The joke of it is, basically, 'We can't hire you because you're fat.' There's no comic twist to it. It's just [bleep]ing mean. Chris wanted so much to be liked. As funny as that sketch was...it's one of the things that killed him."

More dismal details regarding Farley's last days after the jump.

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Maybe this Anthony Pellicano trial isn't as hopelessly bereft of A-list manure-flinging as we had initially thought. Just a day after Garry Shandling's bitterly frank testimony about former manager Brad Grey--which so riled the Paramount Emperor that the planned The Love Guru ice cream social was cancelled with a company-wide e-mail instructing staffers to, "Go enjoy a cup of Garry Shandling's steaming, fudge-covered horseshit instead"--comes something even better: A tape, which prosecutors say was made by Pellicano and obtained by The Huffington Post, containing a 31-minute conversation between Chris Rock and the private investigator. Rock secured Pellicano's services after the then-separated comedian engaged in a brief fling with what he describes as "a girl with big tits and white pants" back in 1998, who then turned around and accused him of rape. (Interesting side note: He took her to a dinner party at Guy Oseary's house attended by Madonna and Elisabeth Shue!) The charges were ultimately found to be bogus, and were never officially filed.

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· We'll admit to not watching enough USBig Brother 8 to tell this Amber person from Mike Boogie, but we nonetheless find her unedited thoughts on Jewish people (and her clumsy attempt to uncover the identity of America's Secret Jew, apparently one of the new season's exciting plot twists) quite fascinating. We think a special Tolerance Challenge might be in the houseguests' future. · Sad news: Rosario Dawson will probably not be in the Porno film Kevin Smith wrote for her. · Happy news: Chris Rock is not that kid's daddy. · The Bel-Air Beverly Crest Neighbourhood Council helpfully tells the Hillside Burglars where all the cops will be hanging out on Thursday night. · Being the victim of a Britney Spears fender-bender is probably not the best way to use up one's 15 minutes of fame.