With films from David Robert Mitchell and Thomas McCarthy, it's quite a week for directors who have names that are almost the same as British writers.

If only…

I found out recently that apparently he's my height (5' 7") so Cruise height jokes are bittersweet…

The best one, courtesy of In The Flesh: Partially-Deceased-Syndrome Sufferers

It's future was left hanging for ages as the BBC refused to cancel or continue, then it was unceremoniously dumped a month back.

'Cumberbatch' is actually a plural form already. Benedict is a actually several Cumbers joined Voltron-style into a Cumber-batch that vaguely resembles a human actor.

And Tom Waits songs.

He was on Jools Holland last year, and it was kinda sad because his voice just isn't really there anymore.

Your're probably joking, but an 'American Recordings' style album done by them would be ace.

If we're being picky, I'd say that Phillips pioneered rockabilly, not rock n roll (although as time wore on they became interchangeable terms for some).

I think Berry actually cites 'Saturday Night Fish Fry' as the first rock n roll record.

He's in his sixties and he still spits this out at a million miles-an-hour, it's something to see. Actually his live shows are really good. A lot of cheesy-on-purpose jokes as well. He's an excellent performer.

'Beasley Street' is brilliant - also at live shows now he follows it with a rewritten version about the newly gentrified Beasley Street called 'Beasley Boulevard'.

Technically Mrs Brown is the Irish's fault, not ours.

'Knickers' will always been the funniest way to talk about underwear.

Under the Boardwalk, obviously.

I have to say it was a shock realising that the super-beefy latino space marine was Freddie Prinze jr.

I admire the experiment, but at 170 pages it's actually too long and the gimmick begins to wear thin. It would have made a great short story though.

So The Remains of the Day without the unreliable narrator?

It's going to get awkward when they get to the 30s and Lord Grantham is telling everyone how great Hitler is.