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WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• ‘You can say something that is very shocking and an audience will laugh because they're shocked, that's not to be mistaken for wit or flair or something uplifting.’ Paul Merton.

• Hahahahahahah. The much-publicised If Katie Hopkins Ruled The World attracted just 68,800 viewers on its TLC debut last night. The show also features comic Mark Dolan with last night's guests being columnist Liz Jones and stand-up Paul Foot. It means 99.6 per cent of the viewing public at the time decided to watch something else instead. Hope no comedian was planning to take part to up their profile… The show featured footage of the columnist steaming her vagina, so any jokes about a 'cunt full of hot air' are entirely appropriate.

• Ricky Gervais has been named RadioTimes.com Comedy Champion 2015 after an online vote. But the real winner was the website, which attracted more 1.8million hits for after the stars mobilised their fans to vote.

• A unique mural commemorating late Father Ted star Dermot Morgan was created at the Vodafone Comedy Festival in Dublin last month – a collage using photos submitted by comedy-goers. This film of its creation, plus tributes from the likes of Tommy Tiernan and sketch trio Foil, Arms and Hog has just been released:

• Meanwhile, Alan Partridge has inspired an art exhibition in Norwich,entitled Cook Pass Babtridge. Thirty pieces of art are on display at the Moosey Art Gallery until August 21.‘Whether it be a sculpture of his head or an illustration of his beloved Toblerone, this show is definitely one for the Partridge lovers,’ said the gallery.

• The set of The Daily Show is going into a museum. It will be will be donated to the Newseum in Washington after Jon Stewart's final episode aired last night.

• We’re baffled by the organisers of Belfast’s Féile an Phobail festival who have said they are ‘deeply sorry for any hurt or offence’ caused by Frankie Boyle’s appearance at their event… before it has even happened. Either stand by your booking, or if you’re genuinely so ‘deeply sorry’, cancel it. The show tonight has been the source of protest from parents of disabled children angry at some of Boyle’s jokes.

• Fine penalty here from Omid Djalili… but his team-mate’s misjudged plan to lift him up in celebration is really what makes the clip:

• Fringe newcomer Sofie Hagen has found herself playing one of the biggest rooms of the festival – a 500-seat rock venue more used to hosting the likes of Deadmau5. She wound up in the main space in the Liquid Rooms after her planned 70-seater in the venue didn't get built as planned. And in other Sofie Hagen news, she also fractured her tailbone and has to carry around a massive 'ass doughnut' with her to sit on:

• Looks like Caroline Mabey and Michael Legge will have to perform their two-hander Two Stupids at the Edinburgh Fringe after all. They had started a Kickstarter campaign promising to cancel all their performances if they raised £5,000. The final total was £77.

• Meanwhile Legge is behind another Fringe initiative, #LetsSellThisGigOut, in which comedians collectively pick one worthy show each day which they’ll all promote to their social media followers; hopefully guaranteeing at least one full house for their chosen colleague over the festival.

• You wait ages for a bus then loads turn up at once.At the Fringe there are at least four: Bob Slayer’s BlundaBus next to Potterow Port, one at Underbelly, a ghost bus tour, plus one sponsored by a bank. It’s inspired Slayer to propose a bus race at Knockhill, Scotland’s National Motorsport centre - for which Harry Hill has agreed to be the official starter. Knockhill is just half an hour from Edinburgh, ‘or 45 minutes if you go by BlundaBus’, jokes Slayer.

• Milo McCabe was facing a washout for his Fringe show at the Jekyll and Hyde last night, with zero punters by his 8pm start time. Just as he was packing up, three people walked in – not comedy-goers but foreign language students who’d arrived for a ‘Conversation Club’ usually held in the room. McCabe said: 'I got on the mic – in character – to tell them the gig wasn’t happening. But then I asked if they wanted Conversation Club with myself as the sole conversationalist, or hold their usual club in my space. They went for the former. Then two more people arrived. Then five. Soon there were 30 – all there for Conversation Club and none with English as a first language.' So he spent the hour chatting, including setting up a 'competitive' conversation cup with the students. 'Hands down, it's the oddest gig I’ve ever done,' said McCabe. ‘And definitely the least conventional Conversation Club they’ve ever had.’

• Tweets of the week

I've written a musical called Fish. It's very similar to Cats… although Memory's a lot shorter.
— Neil (@_Enanem_) August 6, 2015

Edinburgh Fringe is like Christmas. It's once a year, full of resentment and you never really know what day it is. I'll miss it
— Craig Deeley © (@craiguito) August 7, 2015