WTF: Weekly Trivial File

‘Comedy is born a lot of the time from boredom and frustration,’ Dylan Moran.

• Regulars at a Glasgow bar were shocked by a late entry to a pub quiz about Still Game – the cast of the sitcom itself. A team including Ford Kiernan, Greg Hemphill and Sanjeev Kohli ambushed the quiz at the Box – but if they thought their expert knowledge could trump the opposition, the had another think coming, as they could only manage to come 16th out of 20. ‘Youse are getting your arses felt,’ said a combative Kiernan on entering the pub - but as they struggled to get the answers right turned to cheating on their phones. And when spotted, they were subjected to a particularly Scottish punishment: Pelted with Tunnocks tea cakes.

• Rob Brydon says he was careful filming The Trip In Italy – after putting on 8lbs over the first series. ‘You have to eat each meal three times,’ he said.

• Which comedian told his audience at the Melbourne Comedy Festival:  'I'm actually quite well known in the UK' when confronted with a room containing just 11 people? Step forward, Geoff Boyz.

• East London comedy club Oh So Funny this week told members of its mailing list that ‘Michael Macintyre's Live at the Hammersmith Apollo Roadshow’ would be filmed not at the at the Leytonstone pub where it hosts regular nights. Despite the obvious clues – including the inconvenient fact that the entire published line-up of John Belushi, Richard Pryor, Dave Allen and Bill Hicks are all dead – promoter Nigel Lovell says he received 100 queries about tickets to what was clearly an April Fool’s joke.

• Close. Four puppets bound for a comedy show in Australia ended up in Austria instead. They had been heading from the States to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival as part of the Henson Company’s Puppet Up! – Uncensored show, but wound up in Vienna instead. Spokesman Patrick Bristow said they would only be a few days late and ‘if those four puppets were lost forever we’d still have a show.’

• Stephen Fry has been treated in hospital this week for the painful skin condition cellulitis, which causes redness and pain. He tweeted yesterday: ‘Being pumped & dripped with antibiotics. Once they've done their job MRI tomorrow and hope to be out by the weekends: thanks for good wishes’.

• Tweets of the week
Gary Delaney (@GaryDelaney): I just alphabetised all my books! The bit that really took ages was cutting out and sticking back in every letter.
Jamie McKelvie (@McKelvie): Letterman was just an ordinary man until the day he was bitten by a radioactive letter.
Carey Marx (@CareyMarx): I don't like the way the French say une table, or la table. These days it is wrong to treat objects as women.

Published: 4 Apr 2014