WTF: Weekly Trivia File

•‘Comedy groupies are not as good-looking as rock groupies.’ Terry Gilliam.

• Ruby Wax might have taken part in Celebrity Shark Bait  – but even she has standards. She revels that she turned down more than £100,000 to go into the Celebrity Big Brother house. ‘It was really, really hard to turn that amount of money down,’ she says. ‘But I would have ended up institutionalised if I’d gone in the Big Brother house. After 25 years of doing really interesting TV, I don’t think I can bend to this stuff. I couldn’t live with myself.’

• Now the Chortle Award polls have closed (with more than 9,000 of you taking part, thanks!), we can share this with you without fear of influencing the results… Alex Horne put together this rather delightful jingle soliciting the support of fans:

• A virtual reality version of Jerry Seinfeld’s sitcom apartment has been developed by fan Greg Miller. He modelled the set for the forthcoming Oculus Rift headsets, and said it contains 11 hidden references to various episodes. If ‘Oculus Rift’ means anything to you, you can download the model here.

• Comics dressed up as their favourite movie stars for the new comedy issue of GQ magazine. Lee Mack as King Kong; Russell Kane as James Bond; Sara Pascoe as Bonnie (as in …and Clyde), Greg Davies as LB Jeffries from Rear Window and so on. What’s more they made a video in character:

• Comedy producer Ash Atalla on the BBC’s decision to drop BBC Three as a broadcast channel: ‘It feels like a 60-year-old man in a golf jumper has walked into a really good nightclub and turned the music off so he can hear more Mozart next door.’

• John Ridley, who won the Oscar for writing the adapted screenplay for 12 Years A Slave, last week start life as a stand-up. And even played one in the Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air. Here he is opposite Will Smith:

•Brilliant headline on this news story about Eddie Large, right….

• Omid Djalili is hoping to follow in the footsteps of Baddiel and Skinner and Keith Allen, by releasing the World Cup football song England’s Going Out (To Do It Again), which is billed as the fans’ anthem. ‘Football is the modern religion, and what better way to come together and practise that as a community in song,’ he told TalkSport.

• An odd comedian. We don’t know what happened between the first and second clips...

• Tweets of the week
Neil (@_Enanem_): I often sleep with one eye open, he's my Native American boyfriend.
James Martin (@Pundamentalism): Plaudits to the PR team behind getting them to be known as 'Daddy Longlegs' rather than 'Daddy Tinybody'.
Gary Delaney (@ GaryDelaney ): Hospice care? That's the last thing I need.

Published: 7 Mar 2014