WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• There is an Arizona Ned Flanders-themed heavy metal band called Okilly Dokilly, all of whose members go by the name of Ned. This is what they look like, above. And this is sound like:

• The town of Bridlington wants to become twinned with Walmington-upon-Sea - even though it is not a real place. The East Yorkshire resort stood in for the fictional town in the new film of Dad’s Army, and burghers want to try to turn that into tourist dollars. ‘We think interest will snowball when the film is released in February,’ said town crier David Hinde. The link has certainly worked for Thetford in Norfolk, where the original BBC sitcom was filmed. It hasn't tried to twin itself with a fictional town, but does boast a popular museum about the show.

• What is it with open-mike comedy nights, especially in the States, that they can become all about aggression over laughs? After last week’s clip of a physical assault at a club, here’s another from the Beat Coffeehouse Los Angeles. The heckler Rade Zone is apparently well-known for disrupting comedy shows, but this outcome is still brutal:

• David O’Doherty says that being a stand-up can screw with your normal human reactions. Describing ‘when it gets really bad’, he said: ‘When you're having an argument with your girlfriend and she's crying and you're crying and then you have this smiley thing in the back of your mind that what she said is so funny that you're going to say that on stage.’

• Richard Gadd burst his nose headbutting Inbetweeners star Blake Harrison as they filmed the new E4 comedy drama Tripped. The comic plays an assassin, but mistimed a headbutt in a fight scene, smashing his face on steel chest armour worn by his co-star. ‘My nose just split open and there was blood and snot everywhere,’ he told The Scottish Sun. ‘The next thing I know I’m dazed and there are paramedics over me putting this bandage on my nose.’

• How’s this for a plot too unlikely for Curb Your Enthusiasm? Larry David played a round of golf with President Obama last weekend, at the Farm Neck Golf Club near Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts.

• Tweets of the week

"ENTER PASSWORD" *types 'snowflake'* "RE-ENTER PASSWORD" *types 'snowflake'* "ERROR. PASSWORDS MUST BE IDENTICAL".

— GlennyRodge (@GlennyRodge) August 9, 2015

Can't believe I've only just found out how to address a 'note to self'. Dear me.

— T'Other Simon (@TOther_Simon) August 10, 2015

"How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man? Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads" - Bob Dylorian

— Sean Leahy (@thepunningman) August 13, 2015

Published: 14 Aug 2015