WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• ‘London is the worst place I’ve ever been, including jail.’ Doug Stanhope

• She’s used to dishing it out, but the critical tables turned on The Scotsman’s outspoken comedy reviewer Kate Copstick this week, after she hosted a talk show at the Leicester Comedy Festival. ‘What on earth was she thinking?’ wrote Alex Dawson in the Leicester Mercury, in a scathing review surely no comedian would ever take delight in reading. ‘How to convey the toe-curling unease generated by her shockingly unprofessional stab at chat show host? Well, the biggest cheer of the night was when irked comedian Paul Sinha said "Just shut up, Kate"... Her stage persona is gauche and ungenerous, verbose and ill-judged; like a drunken bystander who grabs the mic at someone else's wedding.’ Read the full mauling here.

• This week’s dubious Wikipedia fact: Arthur Smith joined the University of East Anglia’s Dance Society, resulting in an unexpected win of their Disco Dancing Championship in 1976.

• Unlikely as it might sound for comedy awards that count The Chuckle Brothers, David Hasselhoff and Ian Beale among their nominees, but questions have been raised about the credibility of the Loaded Laftas. It was the category for ‘best Twitterer’ that baffled most, with some of the nominees seemingly selected for their celebrity more than their wit – such as Stephen Merchant, a reluctant tweeter who mainly uses the site to plug gigs and TV appearances. And most of the recent posts from winner Dom Joly explain what music he’s listening to as he writes his book.

• Drunk heckler invades the stage while a one-armed comedian does his first ever spot:
  

• Alan Carr has come out fighting for his friend Adele, after fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld called her fat. Carr sniped: ‘Lagerfeld is a vile old queen. If I see him I'd rip his grey hair off the top of his prune face.’ Suggesting the fashionista should look in the mirror before criticising others, Carr said: ‘ He needs to sort his face out. I mean, he could drop kick his jowels they're so saggy.’

• Rob Brydon has poo-poohed the suggestion that there should be a musical version of Gavin and Stacey.’ It sounds a bit pants,’ he said. ‘It was perfect, leave it like that.’

• Hugh Dennis was approached to work for MI5 while he was a student at Cambridge. ‘I can't remember very much about it other than thinking I'd make a terrible spy.’ he said. ‘I recall this one man just stared at me silently for ages. And I thought, 'I don't think this is for me.'

• Want to see stand-up Chris Ramsay balls up a simple high five on Sky’s Soccer AM?
  
  We’d say ‘facepalm’...but he’d probably miss.

• Tweets of the week from award-winner Dom Joly:
  ‘Back to book writing today- mellow, cold day so I shall be listening to Simon and Garfunkel and Martha Wainwright’
  ‘In case you missed my no holds barred autobiography - it is now available on audiobook read by me’
  ‘Off to London for Loaded LAFTAS awards- got to behave though as it's my wife's birthday and I have to come straight home after- Rock 'n roll’

• Other Tweets of the week:
  Jessica Warner: (@ missjessebelle ): Relationships are like a pack of cards, at the start all you need is 2 hearts and a diamond and at the end all you want is a club & a spade
  Boothby Graffoe: (@ boobygraffoe ):In the Land of the Blind, the one-eyed man is an illegal immigrant.
  Paul Kerensa: (@paulkerensa ): Should I become a psychic? Would love to know your thoughts.

SOURCES: Bolton News, Leicester Mercury, Wikipedia, Chortle, YouTube, The Sun, Bang Showbiz, Radio Times, YouTube, Twitter, Twitter

(And before anyone writes in... we do know that one-armed George Thomas is the creation of bi-armed Polish-American stand-up Bob Golub)