Now it's Victoria (Wood) station

WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• 'John Dowie is the archaeopteryx of alternative comedy, in that the fossil record makes no sense without him.' Alan Moore

• A railway station is to be renamed in honour of Victoria Wood – but only for an hour. And the Manchester regional hub has a head start, as it's already called Victoria Station, in honour of the former Monarch. The station will be renamed from 2pm to 3pm tomorrow as a fundraising event is held there in the late comedian's honour, but Wood's brother Chris hopes the new monicker could be permanent. 'It would be a major tourist attraction,' he says, perhaps optimistically. Tomorrow's event includes the city's LGBT choir singing a revamped version of Wood's Ballad of Barry and Freda, entitled The Ballad of Carrie and Freda, Barry and Fred.

• Debate in a Wetherspoon's normally goes no more complex than: 'Did you spill my pint?'. But after the company printed 200,000 pro-Brexit beer mats for its pubs, Al Murray hit back by designing his own, pointing out the arguments of both leaving and remaining in the EU in the sort of measured terms we have come to expect from both sides:

Party leader @almurray has spoken to The @guardian about publicans views of #Brexit https://t.co/mHAGUsUTR2 pic.twitter.com/D0t1d7kdBB
— FUKP (@FUKPnews) June 1, 2016

• Two political parties have approached Russell Howard for advice on how to appeal to the young. He won't say which.

• Episodes star Tamsin Grieg says she often gets mistaken for a man. 'It happens quite a lot,' she tells Graham Norton on his BBC One show tonight. We will go out for a meal and the waiter will say, "And for you sir?". And it's not just waiters:'I was walking down a street once and there was a toddler who'd just learnt to name things. He was pointing and saying "car" and "tree" and "birds" and then he pointed at me and said, "man".'

• An actor in the off-Broadway revival of the 'lost' Marx Brothers show I'll Say She Is took the theatrical wish 'break a leg' rather too literally this week. The accident wasn't a result of slapstick got out of hand, but the performer playing the butler was taken to hospital after slipping when he stepped down off the stage, the show's British star Matt Roper told blogger John Fleming. The story even has echoes to the original Marx Brothers as the boys' matriarch, Minnie, broke her leg in 1924 after slipping off a chair she was standing during a fitting for a dress for the opening night of… I'll Say She Is. Not that it put her off. 'I doubt if any woman entered a theatre more triumphantly than she did,' Groucho later wrote. 'Smiling and waving gaily to the audience, she was carried in on a stretcher and deposited in a front row box seat.'