WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• ‘He makes Lee Nelson seem like Angela Dworkin!’ Comedy writer Graham Duff on Dapper Laughs.

• Alan Carr was reduced to tears when he appeared on Deal Or No Deal, admitting the pressure of potentially winning up to £500,000 for charity was ‘torture’ He said ‘I found it so stressful. I don’t want to spoil it but we got to a point where there was a lot of money at stake.’ The episode, begin aired at 6.30p,m on Sunday, is part of Channel 4’s Stand Up To Cancer fundraising drive.

• A classic 1968 Jensen Interceptor Mk 1 first owned by comedian Eric Morecambe has been sold for £28,000. It was the car Eric was driving when he had a mild heart attack, and a soldier who was passing by drove him to hospital in it. Mike Fountain, Eric’s chaffeur, said: “‘It’s a beautiful car, if I had the money I’d buy it myself.’

• Omni Verse has made a video in which every single Simpsons couch gag plays simultaneously in a tiny part of the screen. What do you mean, ‘why’?

• What sort of fans does Dapper Laughs have? He asked his Twitter followers to send him suggestions of chat-up lines. The results: ‘I hope you like dragons cause I'll be dragon my balls across your face tonight’ ‘Roses are red violets are twisted, bend over love you're about to get fisted’ and ‘How many planets are there in the universe? 7 after I destroy Uranus! Oi oi’ The confusion of ‘universe’ and solar system – without even getting into the whole Pluto controversy – is probably the least of the worries… John Cleese wrote his new memoirs with a pencil in an exercise book.

• Ardal O’Hanlon is about to star in a Radio 4 sitcom called The Best Laid Plans, in which he plays a mischievous angel sent down to Earth to undo some of humankind’s progress. But it is a coincidence that the angel’s name is Smallbone – the same as the Rev in Rev?

• Tweets of the week
Ruthe Phoenix (@RuthePhoenix): Do you think Jesus everwonders how many of his followers are just spam?
Moose Allain (@): MooseAllain Charles Dance's first name is actually Charleston.
Adam Bloom (@adambloomie2): I like to think of the @ symbol as a maze for full stops to play in..

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Published: 10 Oct 2014