WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• ‘Nothing offends people any more – except those who have got something to gain by being offended.’ Tim Minchin.

• Mark Thomas is no fan of Michael McIntyre, saying his DVDs are ‘the ultimate gift for someone you don’t like'. He added:'He’s the equivalent of flowers at a petrol station. One bloke I know got four of them one year. I told him, “Never talk to those people again, because they clearly don’t like you”.’

• Spotted at the recording of Mock The Week: Andy Murray with girlfrield Kim Sears. On Facebook he said: ‘They didn’t pick on me that much either, haha.’

• The criticism of his rape joke seems to have gone to US comic Daniel Tosh's heart. After being at the centre of an internet shitstorm for evoking rape when dealing with a heckler, he has ordered producers of his new animated series, Brickleberry, to take out all references to rape - before it makes its debut at Comic-Con tonight. But one source told RumourFix: 'Everyone is freaking out, because most of the pilot is about rape.'

• There is a medical condition called Foerster’s Syndrome, which renders sufferers prone to compulsive punning. It was named after neurosurgeon Otfrid Foerster, who discovered it when operating on a tumour in a conscious patient’s midbrain.When the surgeon began to manipulate the tumor, the patient burst into a manic flight of puns – and all related to knives and  butchery.

• US comedian Lisa Lampanelli has lost nearly four stone after undergoing laparascopic surgery – a gastric band that sections off part of the stomach.

• Many blokes get into stand-up to have women throw themselves at them... but not like this. Here’s a comic called Mike Gardner dealing with one classy lady at a comedy club in St. Thomas on the US Virgin Islands:
  

• Stephen Fry made a teenage cancer sufferer’s dream come true by inviting him to a recording of QI. Fry was touched to hear his memoirs helped the 15-year-old named Ted through chemotherapy for testicular cancer, and arranged the trip through the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

• Russell Brand has set himself the challenge of getting through all 2,000 sexual positions in the Kama Sutra before the end of the summer.

• Tweets Of The Week
  Sixth Form Poet (@sixthformpoet): Becoming a musician is probably the coolest way of telling people you've lost your job.
  Pete Johansson ‏(@petejohansson): I bet Daniel Tosh wishes there was some sort of pill he could drop into girls drinks to get them to forget what he said. #tosh
  Jacques As In Hattie ‏(@jacques_aih): @For every bear that ever there was is gathered there for certain because... hang on. "Every bear that EVER THERE WAS"? Ghost bears??

Published: 13 Jul 2012