WTF: Weekly Trivia File

•‘If people watch Dave more than three times a week I don’t want them coming to my show.’ Mark Thomas

• Two people in the audience fainted during Ed Byrne’s show at the Brighton Comedy Festival last night. ‘I had no idea I was that good looking,’ he tweeted… though in reality they passed out because he was talking about injections.

• It’s the showbiz feud you’ve all been waiting for: Morrissey vs Nicholas Parsons. The Just A Minute host has put the former Smiths frontman in his place for insisting his  autobiography be released as a Penguin Classic. ‘He has earned lots, but he has not earned it for the book,’ 90-year-old Parsons blasted (or rather intoned politely) when he appeared on  BBC1's This Week.

• ‘Now I’m just getting rejected by a better class of women than I did when I was 18.’ Stephen Merchant

• The special gift for that special someone: A Jack Whitehall pillowcase.

• Stalin would be proud. GQ magazine have exorcised Russell Brand from their Man of the Year issue after he reminded people of awards sponsor Hugo Boss’s links to Nazi Germany. The magazine makes no mention of him in their issue, even though he won their ‘Oracle’ award... and although he is in the list of winners published online, clicking on his name brings up a ‘file not found’ error, wheres all the other honoured guests receive biographies. ‘GQ cleansed me from their issue,’ he tweeted. ‘That's what they do when they don't like something. I guess that's why they dig the Nazis.’

• Meanwhile, Russell took the cast and crew on his new film Paradise by taking them to an odd yoga class. Co-star Julianne Hough reveals: ‘It was a house and there were cats and dogs everywhere. Everybody was hugging and loving each other and the teachers wouldn't accept any payment. I thought I was gonna sweat and work out but we sat there and hummed. It was so weird. ‘

• After all the shitty hecklers that have featured in this column, here’s one ‘photographer’ in the audience of the Brighton Komedia showing Geoff Norcott how to really get the laugh:

• Australian comedian Julia Morris came face-to-face with a kangaroo this week. Not that unusual, you might think, given where she’s from... but it was in Melbourne airport. ‘Ok, so I'm at Melbourne airport & a KANGAROO has just jumped into the chemist,’ she tweeted.

• Tweets of the week
Abbey Bloom (Twop Twips via @AbbeyBloom ): COMMUTERS. Ensure you've a double seat on the train this morning by simply talking to a can of Special Brew.
David O'Doherty (@phlaimeaux): SOZ EVERYONE I'M A BIT LATE WITH THIS, BUT 'WORLDWIDE' IS JUST ONE WORD SO IT SHOULD JUST BE ww. OK BYE
James Martin (@Pundamentalism): Knocked a tray of cocktails over a girl's dress last night. Oddly, she didn't appreciate my "How the Mai Tai have fallen" joke.

Published: 18 Oct 2013