WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• 'In comedy the most important person is the person you're playing to, the person you're trying to make laugh. Too many young comedians these days forget that. A lot of them are up there performing in order to make themselves feel better, when it should be the other way around.' Stan Laurel – and still very much relevant today.

• Simon Brodkin was a prankster long before he gatecrashed Sepp Blatter's Fifa press conference. He reveals that while studying medicine at Manchester University he was kicked out of a gynaecology class after pretending 'the intimate parts of a female mannequin were a cash machine.' No wonder Blatter looked so disgusted when showered with Brodkin's banknotes.

• An audience member threw up during Stephen Merchant's West End play The Mentalists, though the comic insisted: 'I do get almost naked in the play but that's not why the person threw up.'

• Have to admire this top photobombing by magicians Young & Strange:

It's actually not quite what it appears – a publicity stunt that was set up and not part of a live broadcast – but still a good example of a clip going viral.

• Chris Ramsey has turned dog-rescuer – returning a Patterdale terrier with his owners. The comic was driving through Harton Village in South Shields on Tuesday when he spotted the pooch, Alfie, sitting alone by the side of the road. He stopped to try to help, but there was no address on his dog tag, so took him to a vet's, but found no microchip. He then tweeted an appeal which 'went viral pretty quickly', and soon reunited Alfie with owner Anne Grey. 'We've got builders in, but a door must have been left open and he's got out,' she told the local Chronicle. 'It's not the first time either - he is quite adventurous.' So you might have thought she'd have learned to put some ID on him by now…

• Tweets of the week

Do you have a very quiet voice? If so, I would like to hear from you.

— Yawn (@YawnThePost) July 19, 2015

I just lost all my antique chess pieces in a fire, if only I could have saved drafts.

— Gary Delaney (@GaryDelaney) July 24, 2015

DOCTOR: And what about your diet, Mr Doo, what do you eat? *Scooby is hiding a huge sandwich behind his back* SCOOBY: Rormal rog rood

— Kiel Phillips (@kiel_phillips) July 23, 2015

Published: 24 Jul 2015