WTF: Weekly Trivia File

•'The quiet guy doing the show before me had an act where he dressed up as Mother Teresa. He’d never amount to anything. That was Graham Norton.' Richard Herring recalling one of his early Fringe shows in his Metro column yesterday.

• A comedian whose career failed to take off in the 1970s has become an unlikely internet phenomenon. Over the past couple of years Joe Dyson had posted more than 500 videos on YouTube telling cheesy jokes, persisting despite having just 22 subscribers and most films being viewed by around half-a-dozen people or so. But after his work was spotted by a Reddit user, his work went viral – and he now boasts more than 30,000 subscribers.

• Comic Helen Arney is engaged, after her boyfriend Rob Wells proposed during a Free Fringe show. She accepted the proposal during Baba Brinkman’s show Off The Top last Sunday in the Canons Gait pub – the venue they mat at three years ago when they were both guests in Robin Ince's show. For the past two years they perfromed a show together called Domestic Science in that same lunchtime slot, now occupied by Off The Top.

• The Scotsman's chief comedy critic Kate Copstick has been recalling her days going to sado-masochist nightclubs. She tells blogger John Fleming, her co-host on The Grouchy Club chat show: 'I went as a sub but, because of the way I dressed, everyone thought I was not. So I was constantly getting sad little men coming up wanting to be my slave and the one time I said Yes, it was just embarrassing. I only went there so someone would rip three kinds of shit out of me with a whip and then I had this strange little man following me around and I had to spend hours every day working out things for him to do… I’ll do that… No, let me do it!”'

• Tweets of the week
Craig Deeley (@craiguito): Tribute act: Alan isn't Morissette
Moose Allain (@Moose Allain): It does annoy me, it shouldn’t be ‘Venus In Furs’ it should be ‘Venus Implies’.
Glenny Rodge (@GlennyRodge ): Can't believe I was sacked for doing terrible impressions of a sunburnt Italian. I'm gonna appeal.

Published: 21 Aug 2014