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WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• 'People think that if they call me a prick, I will find it hilarious.' Ed Byrne on a downside of being a comic on social media.

• The Wikipedia page for alternative comedy collective Weirdos is a tells us that the group is a 'UK based beverage manufacturer specialising in lime cordial' that was 'formed by mistake when a piece of chewing gum fell inside a vending machine'. Thanks for that...

• Joe Lycett is heading to the Oscars next weekend. Not that he's been shortlisted for anything – yet – but he's friends with Jenny Beaven, the costume designed Stephen Fry quipped was dressed like a 'bag lady' at the Batas. She could scoop an Academy Award for her work on Mad Max, 'so I'm off to cheer her on,' Lycett says. 'When I'm in London I stay with her; she's my "other mother".' Meanwhile, he also told the Irish Times he's had an idea for his next show title: I'm About to Lose Control and I think Joe Lycett.

• Piers Morgan wants Ricky Gervais to write his obituary. Can't wait…

• Now The Independent will cease to be a newspaper, perhaps it will allow owner Evgeny Lebedev to pursue another ambition: comedy. 'I would like to get my unserious side out a bit more,' the oligarch said in a 2014 interview, expressing his desire to make a comedy show through his TV production company Blue Eyed Wolf Productions. But as Private Eye points out this week, the outfit has never actually made a single programme.

• Katherine Ryan has definitely made it, now the Mail Online has drooled over her frock. The website got excited about how she 'showed off her assets' in a dress that left 'little to the imagination' when she showed up to the NME Awards this week, where she presented the award for Best British Solo Artist to Charli XCX. Wonder if she'll wear the same dress to the SHD Logistics Awards as part of the International Materials Handling Exhibition in Birmingham, which she's also just been announced as host of. It is the UK's largest intralogistics event, after all...

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• 'As welcome as Adolf Hitler in Tel Aviv' sounds like a well-worn metaphor, but Pete Cunningham is hoping for a warm reception with his Fuhrer-based act. The comedian is heading to Israel with his alter-ego Frank Sanazi, the Third Reich lounge singer, where he will act as warm-up for a screening of The Producers. 'I was a bit apprehensive at first, because imagine checking in at the airport,' he told blogger John Fleming.

• Jimmy Carr has become embroiled in a row over ticket prices, after his tour dates in Malta went on sale at up to £93. The comic's website had advertised the April 15 and 16 seats at £25 - but when they actually went on sale, Eden Cinemas were charging from €50 (£39) to €120 (£93). The venue said the cost of bringing Carr to the island and the relatively small size of their venue was to blame. The largest auditorium has a capacity of about 700, meaning that even selling out at even the cheapest price, they would have 'just' £54,600 to stage the two shows.

Tweets of the week

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