WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• 'I associate stand-up with the smell of piss.' Nish Kumar.

• Michael McIntyre has a porcine doppelganger. Visitors and staff at Blackbrook Zoological Park, near Leek, Staffordshire, say Didi the floppy-haired pig bears more than a passing resemblance to the comic-turned-chat-show host – as you can see here. Zoo worker Mark Gains said: 'He is quite a comical soul when he's mucking around in the sheds and throwing all his straw about at night.' And the pig... yada, yada, yada...

• Strange things have been happening to the Twitter account of comedy agency PBJ. Their profile last night switched to a user called Maxie Council, apparently a teenage American girl posing things like: 'I'm not mad. I'm just hurt. There's a difference.' 'I don't care how old I am. If I lose my Mom in the supermarket I will panic' and 'Dear Google Thank you for doing most of my homework for me. You're amazing.' We suspect a hacking, as  the posts come every three or four minutes from online collections of quotes.

• Talking of Twitter, the HotelsForYou account scans the web for news stories relating to hotels and retweets them. But is posting 'John Pinette dies in hotel' really good for business?

• Jim Davidson's career has been soaring since he won Celebrity Big Brother. Last week he opened the offices of telecom company OneCom at the Solent Business Park, Hampshire. 'I was honoured that I was invited down to see their new office,' he gushed.

• Veep star Julia Louis-Dreyfus appears naked on the cover of the new Rolling Stone magazine, with a fake tattoo of the US constitution across her back. But keen political historians  have noted that it shows signed by revolutionary John Hancock – when in fact Hancock signed the Declaration of Independence, not the constitution...

• Ricky Gervais has said he is pro-euthanasia, saying that he hopes one day he will be able to walk into a chemist and ask for a pill to end his life.

• Are all Stephen K Amos's shows merging into one? 'Another lovely review for The Spokesman in Australia. 4 1/2 STARS.' he tweeted this week. Only problem is that The Spokesman was last year's show. This year's, the one which was reviewed, is What Does The K Stand For?

• Andrew Dice Clay has filed for divorce from his third wife Valerie Vasquez, saying: 'The word "marriage" was putting a pressure on our relationship.'

• Stand-up Chris Dangerfield's show at this year's Edinburgh Fringe will be titled Sex With Children.  'It's not a play on words,' he told blogger John Fleming. 'Make that clear. It's about fucking kids.'

• Television is a lot easier than stand-up, I think.' Frank Skinner

• Tweets of the week
Jason Manford (@ JasonManford ): Complained to hotel as Maid came in whilst I was asleep.'it's ok, she only saw a foot hangin out" How could I be angry after that compliment?
Marc Paterson(@marcpaters0n): What's John Cleese's best chat up line? "Former Q, ladies."
Justin Moorhouse (@justinmoorhouse): How come everyone seems to know the first rule of Fight Club? #fail

Published: 11 Apr 2014