WTF: Comic Bobby Mair pranks hate figure

• Comedian Bobby Mair has pranked Katie Hopkins – taking the money he got from appearing on her TLC show Katie Hopkins Vs. The World and giving it to people she hates. He handed out cash to representatives of groups the controversial columnist has slated, plus £750 to Migrant Help - a charity that supports the people who Hopkins compared to ‘cockroaches’. Mair said: ‘I wanted to humanise all the people she makes a living insulting. When I found out that 40 per cent of transgendered people say they’ve attempted suicide and then Katie Hopkins said Caitlyn Jenner isn’t brave I just really wanted to stick it to her. I felt like YouTube’s Robin Hood. I took money from Katie Hopkins and just gave it to everyone she hates.’ Here is the video he made of his good deeds:

• Bobby Davro is going into the Celebrity Big Brother house tonight.

• Luke McQueen’s Edinburgh show is based on the premise that he used to be in a double act with Jack Whitehall and is now jealous of his former partner’s success. So guess who turned up in the audience this week?

I surprised my old mate @MrLukeMcQueen onstage in Edinburgh tonight. (He R Patz's me in his show) go Check it out. pic.twitter.com/bHtdLrC8iT

— Jack Whitehall (@jackwhitehall) August 26, 2015

• Michael McIntyre’s plans to extend his £5.6million home in Hampstead have been criticised by conservationists. The comic wants to extend a study and put a new terrace into the North London house, but the Heath & Hampstead Society are opposing the plans, telling Camden Council: ‘The proposals display a crudeness of design that would be very destructive of the house’s fine features.’

• The nominees have been announced for the Ham Fist award ‘honouring’ poorly written reviews at the Fringe. The FringePig website has nominated Graeme Connolly of The List for giving three stars to a Stuart Goldsmith; Chortle’s Paul Fleckney for reviewing Bobby Mair’s much-publicised gigs by Periscope on a day when the technology didn’t work properly; Mark ‘Divine’ Calvert for the ‘most self-indulgent and badly-written’ review of Belgian scientific comic Lieven Scheire; One4Review’s critic called Laura for review of Joseph Morpurgo in which he admitted he couldn’t understand why the audience were laughing.

• Lisa Kudrow joined Taylor Swift on stage during her tour gig at Los Angeles' Staples Centre this week for a rendition of Smelly Cat, the song Kudrow’s Friends character Phoebe Buffay made famous:

• Tweets of the week

I've just created a really bad clone of myself, which is most unlike me.

— Chris (@ChribHibble) August 27, 2015

What do you call a Welshman with a poor internet connection? Dai Lup.

— Tom Fox (@TomFoxTom) August 26, 2015

The only thing missing from Pride festival is a legendary indie band headlining at the end. We all like to see Pride before The Fall

— Sanjeev Kohli (@govindajeggy) August 27, 2015

Published: 28 Aug 2015