WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• ’I think people like Jimmy Carr suck. Shock comedy is just a lot of white people jacking off.' Melbourne comedy festival best newcomer nominee Corey White

• Looks like the Haringey Independent in London had second thoughts about the rather insensitive way they initially covered Eddie Izzard hitting the Labour campaign trail yesterday, given this before and after screenshot.

• Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisha’s one-month-old baby is a boy named Montgomery Moses Brian Baron Cohen, gossip website TMZ has revealed after obtaining a copy of the birth certificate filed in LA. The child was born on March 17.

• Miranda Hart and David Walliams are among 40,000 people who have contributed selfies for a record attempt on the world’s largest collage. It’s in aid of Rainbow's Hospice for Children and Young People in Leicestershire.

• Barcelona wants to dedicate a whole museum to Woody Allen’s life and work, with a 17th-century building set aside for the project.

• Australian TV comedy show The Project has had to apologise after advertising an appearance by US comedian Michael Che – by using footage of a completely different black comic. The show used clips of Jay Pharoah, a Saturday Night Live co-star of Che's, in a trailer by mistake. And potentially more embarrassingly, it also used clips of Che in the same advert – and no one noticed they were two different people. Host Waleed Aly issued the on-air apology… and by coincidence he had previously been the subject of a mix-up when Melbourne newspaper The Age illustrated a story about him joining the show with an image of a different 'brown' comic, Nazeem Hussain.

Hey @theprojecttv you do know that Michael Che and Jay Pharoah are two different people yeah? #ouch #TheProjectTV pic.twitter.com/S41qWwie8r

— Susan Bong (@jesscob33) April 15, 2015

• A bunch of stand-ups have set up an impromptu comedy club on the London Underground. Christian Elderfield, Leo Kearse, Tony Marrese, Chris Joyce and David Alfie Ward entertained commuters on the Victoria Line, and recorded their efforts on YouTube. Elderfield said that before their performance the comics were ‘really nervous as people are notoriously miserable and never look like they want to be spoken to, let alone laugh at any jokes. But once we got started and highlighted that we weren’t beggars everyone started to get on board.’ The group intend to perform on every line on the Tube to see which is the happiest.

• Two And A Half Men star Jon Cryer has revealed that he lost out on the role of Chandler Bing in Friends – because his audition tape got held up in the post. He auditioned in London where he was in a play, but, as he revealed to James Corden on The Late, Late Show, the tape of his try-out was delayed in customs and never made it to the producers in LA on time.

• Tweets of the week

I love the fact that M. Night Shyamalan has curly hair, it's like even his body has to have a twist at the end.

— Jake Lambert (@LittleLostLad) April 16, 2015

Answer this, Google... http://t.co/IQJAJ8c7W0 pic.twitter.com/IujXxJOAd3

— The Poke (@ThePoke) April 16, 2015

Son asked me what would happen if one Siamese twin drank Coke whilst the other was eating Mentos and now that's all I'll think about today.

— Amanda (@Pandamoanimum) April 12, 2015

Published: 17 Apr 2015