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Worse than Dapper Laughs?

WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• 'I love him dearly like a boyfriend.' Noel Gallagher on Russell Brand.

• Monty Python's Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life has become the most popular tune to play at a UK funeral, according to Co-operative Funeralcare, beating The Lord Is My Shepherd into second place.

• ITV2's relentless quest for young viewers led it into the Dapper Laughs debacle. But despite its demographic, it tonight starts broadcasting a show created by possibly the oldest TV producer in Britain. Warren United, the animated series about a football fan, was the brainchild of Bill Freedman, a former West End impresario and the founder of Breakthrough Breast Cancer, who is aged 84. Which makes him just four years younger than television itself. Warren United starts on ITV2 at the plum time of, erm, 12.50am.

• Thought Dapper Laughs was bad? Here's a video guy called Joe Weller who does similarly awful 'pulling' tips… but blacked up.

• Can you tell which comics are being represented in these Lego-style figures? Answers a couple of stories down…

• Pauline McLynn, who played Mrs Doyle in Father Ted, is knitting jumpers for hens rescued from battery farms – and launching an appeal for others to do the same.

Miranda Hart has spoken of how she had to tackle 50 Cent to the floor in her new movie Spy. The scene happened on the first day of filming the movie, directed by Bridesmaids' Paul Feig 'I was a bit nervous doing that,' she told ITV's This Morning. 'I thought, "What's happened to my life?". In her first major Hollywood role, Hart stars as the best friend of Melissa McCarthy's central character – a desk-bound CIA analyst forced to become a secret agent.' Miranda added: 'It's sort of a James Bond film but it's funny.'

• The Lego folk were Eddie Izzard and Peter Kay (that thing he's holding is supposed to be garlic bread). Or more accurately they are £12.99 Minifigs, available here.

Margaret Cho has been busking on the streets of San Francisco to raise money for the homeless, saying she was inspired by Robin Williams.

• Quite a lot of viewers – not to mention host Nick Hewer – were confused when Countdown contestant Danny Davies appeared on the show this week with a T-shirt bearing the legend: 'Good morning, that's a nice TNETENNBA'. Hewer asked the Manchester asset manager what the slogan said, to which Davies deadpanned: 'It's Tnetennba.' But as any IT Crowd fan knows, it was a reference to a scene in which Moss, played by Richard Ayoade, appeared on the show and came up with that as a nine-letter word:

• Tweets of the week
Scott Hoard (@ ScottHoad ): Someone just tried to explain a frisbee to me. I didn't quite catch it the first time, and the second time it went right over my head.
Trudi (@Trudski2012): I've just started a business selling giant sheets of paper.....the margins are enormous.
Geoff Barnesworth (@barnestoneworth): Weebles are the most self-righteous of all the toys.

Published: 21 Nov 2014

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