'I am prepared to put my arse on the table...'

WTF: Weekly trivia file

• '2016 saw you take my favourite comedian Ronnie Corbett, my favourite musician Keith Emerson, my favourite magician Paul Daniels and my favourite DJ Terry Wogan…please God please know that my favourite politician is Jeremy Corbyn.' Jim Davidson.

• Danielle Ward says the first time she met Russell Brand he told her he wanted to put her in a white T-shirt, stand her in a shower and piss all over her. 'I didn't let him!' she emphasises, as she told the story on Isy Suttie's appropriately titled The Things We Do For Love podcast this week.

• Trying to be anonymous on a dating app? Then maybe don't use a picture of a famous comedian as your profile pic… A 39-year-old bloke from Nantwich calling themselves 'Dave' on a sugar daddy website got found out when another user spotted him using this badly pixellated image of Dara O Briain. She alerted the comic, who naturally enough retweeted it. 'I hope he gets lots of action,' O Briain said of 'Jellybloke'.

@daraobriain will do, "Dave"... it's literally a sugar daddy website which is probably the best part pic.twitter.com/kMVJ6EqzPs
— charlotte (@charIottewinter) January 5, 2017

(And NSA means 'no strings attached')

• Comedian Tom Houghton, formerly of the Noise Next Door improv troupe and now a solo stand-up, is to appear on First Dates Hotel, the new spin-off from the Channel 4 juggernaut He follows in the footsteps of 82-year-old comic Lynn Ruth Miller, who appeared on the original last year. Houghton tweeted this teaser of his appearance on the January 16 edition:

I'm on #firstdateshotel on the 16th Jan! And this clip doesn't even begin to show how silly it got!! pic.twitter.com/qplNV3oL82
— Tom Houghton (@TomHcomedy) January 3, 2017

• Comedian Celia Pacquola had to undergo some peculiar contract negotiations after landing a serious role in Australian TV drama The Beautiful Lie. Because her scenes involved her being in the bath she had to have a conversation about how much nudity she was comfortable with. 'Turns out, not much,' she told the Sydney Morning Herald. 'It was just bizarre sitting in a room working out the contract. I said, "I am prepared to put my arse on the table, but that is it. No nipples and no side boob!"'

• Miranda Merch alert: You can now – if you really insist – download a set of 'stickers' to go on your iPhone's messages based on Miranda Hart sayings inlcuding 'bear with', 'such fun' and 'not a euphemism.' The selection of logos and animated GIFs, are available on the Apple app store for £1.49.

• An American comic frequently cited as a spokesman for the millennial generation has been revealed to be 20 years older than he claims. Dan Nainan has frequently appeared in media including Forbes, the Chicago Tribune and Cosmopolitan, where his age has been given as 35. However, digging by The Daily Beast found him to be 55 – a fact supposedly well-known in the comedy world but never brought up for fear of falling foul of Nainan's vindictive stream. Reporter Ben Collins became suspicious that the comic's age didn't fit with his story of becoming a stand-up after watching the Twin Towers collapse on 9/11 from an executive office at Intel – a tale which would have given him an unbelievably senior job at the age of 20. Several records of run-in with the police – including the time he punched a journalist who was tweeting critical comments about his set from a comedy club in Washington DC – revealed his birth date as May 1961. Nonetheless, after a lot of obfuscation, Nainan insisted to Collins: '"I'm 35. The mistake is in my birth record.' If true, that would have meant he picked up a traffic violation at the age of six. Meanwhile you can watch a clip of him dying terribly at a corporate gig here.

• Nick Hewer went to Jack Whitehall's gig in Northampton this week.