And then they got off the bus...

WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• Reading a Spiderman comic book is always going to demand a certain suspension of disbelief, but this could be a step too far – Malcolm Tucker on a bus?! In the December issue of The Amazing Spider-Man, the cast of the Thick Of It are pictured on a London double-decker, into which Spidey had been flung by a Green Gobliny-stye ray. The comedy's creator Armando Iannucci tweeted: 'Anyone know why Thick of It cast are in recent Spiderman issue? As a lifelong Marvel fan I'm delighted. And curious.' We asked Marvel how Peter Capaldi, Chris Addison, Joanna Scanlan, Paul Higgins, James Smith and Polly Kemp came to feature in the artwork, but as yet no reply...

• James Corden has recorded a Christmas duet with Kylie Minogue for her next album – and rumours are that it will be released as a festive single.

• Want to get really pseudy about your comedy? The academic journal Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization has just published a 200-page special issue on comedy with hefty articles about Russell Kane's 'comedic sociology', an article on 'Simulacra slapstick and the limits of the real' which namechecks Itchy and Scratchy and Jackass 3D, and another humour as a management tool. It's all free to read here.

• Angelos Epithemiou creator Dan Skinner suffered a few injuries on the set of new BBC One comedy The Kennedys. At one stage he put his shoulder out while playing rugby with co-star Harry Peacock in their lunch break, and suffered a touch of sunstroke. 'When you're wearing 70's clothes –mostly thick materials, wool, corduroy etc. º you burn up pretty quickly,' he said. 'In fact I don't know how they coped in the summer in the 70's wearing those clothes. It must have been very unpleasant on the Underground every morning.'

• Irish comedian Sean Burke has performed a gig in Dublin with a Go-Pro camera on his head so, he says, people at home can see first-hand 'what it's like to have a room full of people hate you'. Here is the result. And there's plenty more from other comics on YouTube should that have whetted your appetite:

• Talk about good timing. Australian comic Shaun Micallef has a new sitcom starting next month about a former Prime Minister struggling to cope with normal life… coming hot on the heels of Tony Abbott being ousted from the top job. The Ex-PM starts on the ABC on October 14.

• Tweets of the week

There's a special place in he'll for the man who invented autocorrect.
— Ian Power (@IHPower) September 13, 2015

They've done a rugby WAGs feature. There's openly gay players now, it should be Boyfriends And Wives, Boyfriends And Girlfriends. BAWBAGS.
— Nick Pettigrew (@Nick_Pettigrew) September 15, 2015