WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• 'Like all the best comedies, it doesn't make you laugh' Guardian TV critic Filipa Jodelka kinda misses the point when reviewing Better Call Saul.

• Tom Rosenthal is one of the celebrities taking part in Bear Grylls new extreme reality show Mission Survive. In the wilds of Costa Rica, they had to jump out of a helicopter into an algae-infested pool, sleep in the wild and drink their own urine,: 'I had eight rookies, who'd never done anything like this before, running around with machetes and going in rivers with crocodiles and snakes,' said Grylls. 'They were tired and they would make mistakes. I was nervous....'

• German comic Michael Mittermeir's first gig in the UK didn't get off to the best start.He was performing at the Comedy Cafe in East London, when the compere, misreading from a scrap of paper, introduced him as 'Michael McIntyre'. The audience were hugely excited… then hugely disappointed, as he recounts in his current Soho Theatre show Das Blackout.

• Bernard Manning once  rang Roy 'Chubby' Brown when he was out, so left the message: 'Where are you, you fat bastard? Give me a ring when you're back in, although I'm not very well today. He died the next day so Chubby Brown asked BT to put the message on a CD,which he still has today.

• It's probably fair to say this comic was losing the battle even before he had to boast about his bicep to show what a man he was….

• Musical comedian Eddie Perfect is joining  Jemima, Big Ted, Little Ted and Humpty in the Australian version of Play School. Perfect shot to fame with a one-man show in which he sang about wanting to put a woman in a blender because she looked too 'fucking happy'. That probably won't make the show.

• We thank Popbitch for this ... Justin Lee Collins's fame has clearly slipped so much that when he took part in a vox pop for FHM magazine, they merely describe him as 40 and from Bristol, with an 'unspecified' job. Could it be that no one on the staff recognised him? Lookee here.

• Meanwhile, Russell Kane has done a naked magazine shoot for Attitude magazine, leaving no doubt who he is... He was asked about his underwear and revealed: 'Tight, low-slung CK shorts. They look great, particularly if you're halfway to Boner City.'

• This 1980s video-game style interpretation of The Simpsons' opening titles is to feature in the episode airing in the States on Sunday - just two weeks after the Australian duo who created it uploaded onto YouTube. Already more than 2million people have seen the pixelated version created by Melbourne flatmates Ivan Dixon and Paul Robertson. 'We secretly hoped they would pick it up, but it all came so fast,' Ivan said:

• 'When I finally get laid, I'll write a new show.' Luisa Omielan.

• Tweets of the week
Fleet Street Fox  (@fleetstreetfox): From now on when I get my period I shall say "I'm on the #pinkbus." It's what Harriet would want.
Omid Djalili  (@omid9): I hear Boko Haram are against education. This feels correct. Haram means forbidden and they can't even spell book
Darren Walsh (@The GiantTweets): Rumours are spreading that I'm not very good at Ironing. Let me get one thing straight...

Published: 13 Feb 2015