WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• ‘Is Harry Enfield just going out of his way to be controversial by using a young girl dressed in a burqa meeting a young boy dressed in a Pingu penguin costume?’ Moral crusader Pippa Smith, of the group Safermedia, tries to drum up some controversy.

• This was posted online this week... apparently a list compiled by a seven-year-old planning her own comedy show. 'Eat tiny food with huge silverware'.

• Comedy writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais have been visiting London from their Hollywood home to plug UK Gold’s new celebrations for the 40th anniversary of Porridge, which airs from next Wednesday. But the best story they told at a launch event actually involved Auf Wiedersehen Pet. For the show they had a consultant Mick Connell, a bricklayer with a slightly colourful past who had experience of working abroad, who they would call from LA. Connell did not have a phone at his Stockton home, however, and this was long before the days of mobiles, so they had and arrangement by which the writers would call him at a phonebox at the end of his road – normally around 11pm because of the time difference. One night Connell was hanging around outside the phone box when he attracted the attention of the local police – who knew him for his previous misdeeds. The cops came up to him and they said: 'What are you doing hanging around here Mick?' And he said in his deadpan Teesside accent: 'I'm waiting for a call from Hollywood.' The officers were just about to haul him off for loitering with intent when the phone rang... from Hollywood.

• Gary Delaney, pictured, has been put into an app. Foster's beer is about to launch a 'Comedian In Your Pocket' app, which drinkers get by scanning codes on beermats and posters with their phone. The program features Delaney cracking 40 of his one-liners:

• Lee Evans is charging £30 – plus booking fee – for his work in progress shows this summer… exactly the same price as the arena gigs when the tour proper gets under way.

• John Bishop has adopted a pot-bellied pig found wandering a housing estate in Leicester. The comic's wife 'fell in love' with the animal after seeing a video of the beast online. The RSPCA's Jackie Williams said: 'Some people buy pigs on a whim and think you can just keep them in the back garden. Which is why we get animals like Milo handed in. We always have to do very thorough home checks to make sure they will be properly looked after but, in this case, it looks like he has found a brilliant new home.' The 24 acres surrounding Bishop's 10-bedroom home in Cheshire should certainly be enough.

• Limmy wants to represent Scotland in the next Eurovision song contest if the country becomes independent

• Kiefer Sutherland was spotted in the audience for the BBC radio re-recording of a Hancock's Half Hour episode.

• Johnny Vegas plays a flasher in the video for Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott's new music video, DIY. How did they get him? Well the comic did direct it, too...

• Tweets of the week
Edward Philips (@1755Dictionary): This one goes out to all the paranoiacs out there. (You know who you are.)
Sebas (@OhLooKBirdies): List my frustrations with this roll of tape? I don't know where to begin
Dan Rebellato (@DanRebellato): We're having a Eurovision-themed dinner. Everything's fucking rubbish.

• ...but the best actually came from Frankie Boyle, after David Cameron tweeted: 'Proud to support #BringBackOurGirls' with a picture of him holding up the hashtag (because that WILL work), the comic replied: '@David_Cameron You left your daughter in a pub'

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Published: 16 May 2014