Doug Stanhope and the Nazi hideout

WTF: Weekly Trivia File

‘Many comedians get into this business by accident after that dream of being a rock star or a serious actor doesn’t pan out.’ Richard Ayoade.

Ah, Red Nose Day – when everybody’s a comedian. Except the comedians, who have to sing and dance to get on telly. Among them are Alan Carr, David Walliams, Catherine Tate, James Corden and John Bishop, who will perform as boy band Fake That – while the genuine members of Take That judge their performance. Meanwhile Peter Kay never lets the opportunity to live out his pop-star fantasies, so has revived his character Geraldine McQueen and recorded a version of Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson’s I Know Him So Well with Susan Boyle. Kay said: ‘We stuck very closely to the original and when you see the Paige and Dickson version, you can see how similar they are. We have obviously added some funny bits in, but they are fairly subtle – I think it works better that way.’ Finally, the result of the Comic Relief channel in which presenters from all the BBC’s national radio stations performed stand-up will be simulcast across all the networks at 5.28pm today.

Simon Pegg wants the Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band's The Urban Spaceman played at his funeral. He said: ‘As a sci-fi buff, it sounds fairly relevant. And it's a happy song. You don't want a dirge at those things. You want people to hear you talking from beyond the grave, saying, “Don't be too upset. You'll be here soon.”’

Hilarious ‘content farm’ website mangles an interview with Robert Popper about his sitcom Friday Night Dinner. ‘The uncover is about dual boys in their 20s who go spin and see their family,’ he apparently said… Read it all here.

Dom Joly has broken his foot filming Celebrity Total Wipeout. He had to fly back early from the assault course in Argentina after breaking three of the five metatarsals in his left foot. ‘Adrenaline allowed me to somehow finish the course, but I was then whisked off to hospital in a most unglamorous manner and my trip was over,’ he said.

The Situation, star of outrageous reality TV show Jersey Shore, took part in the roast of Donald Trump this week – and promptly bombed. Excuse the shot-off-the-telly quality of this:

Doug Stanhope's new CD/DVD was recored in an abandoned sewing machine factory and former Nazi bunker in the Grünerløkka suburb of Oslo, Norway. He was given just 36 hours notice of the gig, so as not to appear 'over-rehearsed'. He said: 'I didn't know we be filming in an abandoned warehouse, formerly a swanky hang-out for high-ranking Nazis. I never considered it would be in front of an English-as-a-second-language audience. Mostly, I never considered that I had nothing rehearsed. In short, it was like any other gig that actually happens out on the road, something you rarely see in a comedy release. So, fuck it. Here it is.'

Tweets of the week:
Bill Bailey (@BillBailey): TAKING PART! (it's not the winning)
Phil Chapman (@IamPhilChapman): I wrote a film about an Eastern European comic who signed up to Twitter and became an internet sensation called “Czech to follow”
Tony Cowards (@TonyCowards): "Put a tiger in your tank", that was a short-lived military experiment.