WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• ‘People behave themselves better in venues that have a ceiling rose.’ Sarah Millican on audiences.

• A lot of new comedians seem to be Stewart Lee tribute acts these days – but now one man has gone the whole hog. Yes, meet Stuart Leight – the creation of comedy writer Mark Kelly. But least you think this is anything like the Lee Evans or Peter Kay tributes knocking around, this is for a proper hour-long show, in which the copycat comic has an encounter with the man behind the glass in an all-night garage. Kelly – who is a fan and friend of Lee's – said the piece didn't entirely depend on being a tribute to Lee, but talking to blogger John Fleming said: 'I want it to be quite hypnotic and dreamlike and for the audience to enter a sort-of trance-like state. That again is why using Stewart Lee’s act is quite good, because he does all that repetition stuff anyway… So feeling "mesmerised" is good.' Kelly does have at least one thing in common with the comic who inspired the piece. After a trial run-through, he said: 'There are a handful of people who think it’s absolutely brilliant. And there are a handful of people who absolutely hate it. I mean really really dislike it.'

• Anyone out in Northampton this week might have spotted this joker out and about, dressed as Andy from Little Britain. But how many would have looked close enough to spot that it was Alan Carr, out celebrating his brother’s 30th birthday.

• Dara O Briain has recorded a cameo role on Michael Winterbottom's new film King of Soho, which stars Steve Coogan as porn baron Paul Raymond. His role? A comedian.

• Organizers of a comedy festival are claiming a Guinness World Record for the most people wearing animal noses at a single venue. Last night, 607 people donned fake chicken beaks to launch Gilda's LaughFest - named in honour of Gilda Radner, in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

• David Walliams is the voice of BT's Speaking Clock from now until April 8 for Sport Relief.

• Hitchhikers' Guide To The Galaxy author Douglas Adams made some fleeting appearances in the fourth series of Monty Python. He can be seen loading a missile onto the back of a cart, in one sketch, and as a surgeon looking intently into the camera in another.

• A personalised car registration has been put up for sale, which might appeal to comics. Essex-based recruitment consultant Duncan Abbott is flogging 'L12UGH' - which kind of looks like 'laugh' if you have some sort of eye condition – for £1,800.

• Tweets of the week:
  Mary Charlene (@IamEnidColeslaw): As far as dignity goes, a mullet is basically a white flag of surrender.
  Steve Mieczkowski (@IGotsSmarts): Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, but winter was a real bummer for him.
  Twop Twips (@TwopTwips): JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES. Get invited into every home by dressing as police officers and saying you have sad news. (via @gdorean)

SOURCES: Metro, John Fleming's blog, Twitter, Twitter, KTVB.com. Metro, BBC News, Chortle, Twitter

Published: 9 Mar 2012