WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• Customers at a donught shop in Chicago have been given a piece of wisdom from the late, great Mitch Hedburg with every purchase. Cashier Jon Becker programmed the tills to print on every receipt the comic’s gag: ‘I don’t need a receipt for a doughnut. I’ll just give you the money, you give me the doughnut. End of transaction. We don’t need to bring ink and paper into this. I can’t imagine a scenario in which I would need to prove that I bought a doughnut.’ According to Yahoo, Becker’s boss loved the tribute, but his boss’s boss didn’t. So they’re now using a quote from Homer Simpson: ‘Doughnuts, is there anything they can’t do?’. ‘It’s just not the same,’ signed Becker.

• When Mike Myers was 22, and in a double-act with Neil Mullarkey, they wrote a list of their ambitions... which included ‘to meet Dave Lee Travis’.

• After Jason Manford bought everyone in his audience a drink to apologise for running late, fellow stand-up Smug Roberts has now treated his entire crowd to pizza. Here’s the video of him popping into DeNiro's Pizza in Tyldesley, Greater Manchester, mid-set:
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• As the BBC faces hundreds of millions of pounds of spending cuts, some programmes have been exempt from the belt-tightening. Just A Minute has just acquired a new timekeeping whistle after 826 episodes. It’s an Acme Thunderer of the kind used by football referees.

• Andrew Maxwell had a hernia operation aged 11.

• A Kickstarter campaign is looking for £6,000 for a combined cookery and gym programme devised by a recovering drug addict and his partner which tells you how to make smoothies and have a workout at the same time. If it seems peculiar, it’s because it’s a spoof from comic Jamie Glassman and Rachel Stubbings, snuck in under the radar. ‘Right now it's sitting on their site in the Food Section,’ Glassman says. ‘Here's hoping they find it funny too.’ Here it is.

• Well spotted, Twitter user:

This UKIP voter is clearly an evil Stewart Lee. pic.twitter.com/YBkWgrGUWW

— Daniel J Harvey (@danieljharvey) April 24, 2014

• Louis CK told David Letterman on his show last night: ‘The fact that you’re leaving really sucks balls’.

• Police were called to a drive-through Burger King in the Gulf state of Qatar this week after comedian Hamad al-Amari arrived on a camel to order a cheeseburger. The officers took no action.

• Tweets of the week
Cesar Lazarus (@iwritescripts): When I got my loft conversion measurements wrong my wife hit the roof.
Robin Flavell (@RobinFlavell): "I shot the serif". It was a character assassination.
Amanda (@Pandamoanimum): And then autocorrect goes and spoils it all by saying something stupid like I glove you

Published: 2 May 2014