WTF: Weekly Trivia File

WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• 'I'm bored of my own face. I apologise' Jack Whitehall, on his ubiquity.

• Some people do amazing things for Sports Relief… Now comedian Ed Petrie is set to join them. He is bravely taking on an immense challenge for the cause and has vowed to do nothing less than eat an entire Snickers bar on March 21. 'Hopefully, with your support, I can pull it off,' he writes on his fundraising page. 'So please - dig deep. Don't forget, I also have to buy the Snickers from my local corner shop. Did you catch Davina McCall supporting her local shops AND raising money? No.' He's so far raised £167 of the £1,500 target.

• After a 4.1 magnitude earthquake hit the Bristol Channel, the audience were also rocked at the Bristol heat of the Chortle Student Comedy Award last night. Compere Ray Peacock was on stage at the time:

• A Panamanian TV comedian, Michale Vega Otego, has been jailed for six years for aggravated possession of drugs after 26 one-kilo packages of cocaine were found beneath false floors in his car.

• Frank Skinner has recently moved house – into the same road as his former flatmate David Baddiel. 'We're neighbours again,' he said in a video interview for GQ. 'I went round and were going to watch a movie and never got around to watching a movie We just sat around and talked for four and a half hours and still fell around laughing.'

• Not sure why, but they've made some special M&Ms for The Last Leg, with the names of presenters Adam [Hills], Josh [Widdicombe] and Alex [Brooker]. #isitok to point out one of them in the picture Hills posted online has a piece missing.

• When you've got a dickhead heckler in the room, the last thing you want is them to be a professional wrestler. Yet the man constantly interrupting stand-up Grant Lyon at Hampton's Vaudeville Café in Chattanooga, Tennessee, turned out to be 'Nature Boy' Paul Lee, who couldn't help wanting to be part of the show. And when he got challenged, the grappler reverted to his training - and kneed the comic in the groin. Lyon told US website Laughspin that this was no internet stunt. 'I was legitimately angry when he kneed me,' he said. 'Which is why you don't hear me say anything for like ten seconds.'

• Noel Fielding has turned catwalk model, hitting the runway for Amsterdam-based designer, Bas Kosters as part of London Fashion Week. The Boosh star donned Joker-like clown make-up as he donned the outlandish outfit. He said: 'Felt like an Ewok today but fuck what a great show. Glitter red penis a highlight…show was fucking amazing. So proud to be involved.'

• Jerry Seinfeld reckons that the writers of The Lego Movie stole one of his gags. The comic says that a scene between Superman and Green Lantern in the blockbuster is similar to one one he wrote for an American Express viral video in 2004. He tweeted: 'I think Lego Movie stole my Superman has issues with Green Lantern bit from Amex Seinfeld and Superman webisode. Anyone else catch that?' Here is the Seinfeld version – although the Lego one is not available online:

• There's a guy works down the pet shop swears he's Lee Evans. In fact, friends of Nottingham man John Barlow even call him 'Lee Evans' because of the physical similarity – as this Nottingham Post article describes. Favourite line? John is a huge fan of [Lee's], but he's never been to see him in action.

• 'Nobody's paying me to be a windbag. If everyone in Ireland got paid as well as I do to be a windbag, Ireland would be full of fucking billionaires.' Andrew Maxwell.

• Tweets of the week
Periwinkle Jones (@peachesanscream): The reason why cats have nine lives is because St Peter gets bored of holding the gate open to see if they're in or out.
Obviously Just Me (@ ObviouslyJustMe ): I've quit my new job as a postman. They handed me my first letter to deliver, I looked at it and thought: "This isn't for me."
Matt Lucas (@RealMattLucas): Not trying to start shit or anything but I once saw an episode of ‘That’s So Raven’ that wasn’t actually that raven.

Published: 21 Feb 2014