WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• 'I always thought Jongleurs was really posh 'cos it sounds French.' Ricky Grover

• In today’s Daily Mail, Jan Moir calls for a fight against abusive comments online, after someone tweeted that they wanted to hit MP Louise Mensch ‘with a hammer. In the face’.  Mail Online might be a good place to start. In a story about Russell Brand today, one supposedly moderated comment read: ‘What I wouldn't give to slap that ugly face really hard!’

• Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders became the first Brits to race at London's new Olympic Stadium when they shot an episode of Absolutely Fabulous while the venue was still under construction. Lumley told ITV's Daybreak: 'It was before anybody else had even been there - before the running track was really even put down. We had to put down our own running track for Patsy and Edina.'

• A Connecticut fast-food joint has introduced a ‘Birbig Burger’ in honour of stand-up Mike Birbiglia.

• ‘I wanted to be part of your act’ – how many dickhead hecklers have said that? Here’s American comic Rich Vos taking on an idiot in Long Island, New York:
  

• Female sketch group Lady Garden were almost called Twat Pack.

• American stand-up Lewis Schaffer performs his shows for free, inviting contributions at the end as to what the show was worth. So he was understandably delighted when two women put a cool $10billion in cash in his collection on Tuesday. Unfortunately, the pair were from Zimbabwe, and the single banknote was in that country’s now suspended currency, making it worthless. But the notes do go for 99p on eBay.

• Slow news week in Kent? Here's a headline from the local News Shopper newspaper's website: 'Comedian Hardeep Singh Kohli to select his favourite Gravesend curry-house'

• Tweets of the week
  Adam Holman (@ajholman): Dear autocorrect: I am more likely to wish someone a lovely holiday than a lovely holocaust
  James Martin (@Pundamentalism): Boris Johnson - putting the 'ROFL' into 'Mayor of London'.
  Mr P: (@rocious_puns): Ale, Beer, Cider, Drambuie.  Well, it appears some drinks are in order.