WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• 'I don't regard myself as a rebel, I regard myself as right.' Mark Thomas

• UKIP's campaign against Jonny & The Baptists has ' predictably ' backfired. After deputy leader Paul Nutall launched broadside against the musical comedy duo's Stop UKIP Tour, they have added three new dates and picked up an extra 10,000 views for their YouTube video in just three days.

• In memory of Tony Benn, here's his classic interview with Ali G ' one of Sacha Baron Cohen's few victims to stick to his guns and get his point across without trying to be seem to pander to the supposedly attitudes of youth. It seems like he had twigged the parody, but Benn apparently complained to Channel 4 when he realised the interview was a satire. Don't know why, he comes across brilliantly:

• Can the fiction of the new BBC-set comedy W1A hope to match the absurdity of reality? Signs are not good. While filming, star Hugh Bonneville nipped out of Broadcasting House, nipped out for a fag ' and was refused entry back into the building as he didn't have the right sort of pass.

• Oh Monkey Business, who could your mystery guest performer be tomorrow night? 'Not allowed to list' but a picture's probably fine, right.

• Real estate news. The Los Angeles home of Modern Family's Claire and Phil Dunphy has gone on the market for $2.35 million (£1.4 million). The four-bedroomed house is only used for exterior shots, but that does means a fee each time producers film it. Here are the estate agent's details. Meanwhile, Larry David has sold his seven-bedroomed, eight-bathroomed Beverly Hills mansion, with Pacific views, for $12million. Have a nose around here.

• Scottish stand-up Mark Nelson says he's not letting the birth of his first child, daughter Isla, seven months ago, soften his jokes. He recalls how one member of staff at The Stand told him: 'When you see comedians, they become much nicer people when they've had kids and see how great life is ' but not you.'

• Billy Connolly has stopped taking his medication for Parkinson's disease because of the side effects: 'an overriding interest in sex and gambling'.

• It's one of the most famous images of silent film comedy: Harold Lloyd hanging precariously from the hands of a giant clock in the 1923 film Safety Last. And it turns out that the star's estate owns the copyright on the idea. This week Harold Lloyd Entertainment filed a lawsuit against Cupecoy Home Fashion for selling a clock that is 'a direct appropriation of the iconic k scene', according to The Hollywood Reporter. Legal papers also reveal that the producers of Back to the Future got permission from the estate for the scene in which Doc Brown dangled perilously from the hands of a giant clock; as did Martin Scorsese's children's movie Hugo. It's lucky the film came out when it did, too, for any work released before 1922 is public domain, under US law.

• It was probably inevitable. A porn parody of Jerry Seinfeld's web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee has been made. Comedians in Cars Getting sex stars James Deen as Seinfeld and Veruca James as Sarah Silverman. Here's a safe-for-work trailer:

• Want to know Jim Davidson's theory on how the Malaysian airliner? Of course you do. 'I think that there was an oxygen leak that gradually sent the crew and passengers to sleep and the plane headed west,' he told fans via his blog this week.

• The red-and-white bicycle that played such a key role in the 1985 comedy Pee-wee's Big Adventure has sold for $36,600 on eBay, almost four times the $10,000 reward Pee-wee offered for it in the actual film.

• Tom Wrigglesworth has become momentarily famous in the States 'thanks to his resemblance to an American footballer. Pictures comparing him with Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers briefly swept the internet earlier in the week.

• Tweets of the week
Primly Stavle (@PrimlyStable): POLITICIANS: Rather than saying "We could all learn something from Tony Benn," why not try learning something from Tony Benn?
James Cook (@jamescook): All I'm saying is, if two ideological opponents of the Russian government died within the space of a week we'd be suspicious
James Martin (@Pundamentalism): Failed my italic writing exam with straight "A"s.

Published: 14 Mar 2014