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WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• When Russell Kane was attacked in a Stewart Lee routine, he decided to hit back with material of his own, appropriating the sardonic style of the (slightly) older comedian. But Kane has been forced to drop it, because when audiences heard Lee's name they confused it with Stuart Hall, the convicted paedophile and former It's A Knockout presenter. 'I guess the people who come and see me don't watch Comedy Vehicle,' Kane said.

• Amy Schumer left a $1000 tip (£700) on a $77 bar tab after going to see the Broadway musical Hamilton last weekend. It's not the first time Schumer, who worked as a waitress before her big break in comedy, has shown such generosity: Last year, she added $500 to a $49 bill for a waiter juggling two jobs to pay for university.

• Phillip Schofield has boasted that he was in an episode of Friends. 'One of my greatest claims to fame is that I am in Friends,' the presenter told Matthew Perry when he appeared on This Morning this week. 'I was in it more,' Perry shot back. Schofe was not actually on screen, but in the studio audience… where his 'ha!' laugh was so distinctive he almost ruined a scene… This is how he explained it:

• A nice little boost to comedian Alex Horne's long-running campaign to get 'honk' in the dictionary as slang for money, came courtesy of Fresh Meat this week. Zawe Ashton's character Vod boasted that she was 'making so much honk I'm running out of places to hide it.'

• Barry Cryer was hailed as a Legend of Comedy at the awards ceremony for Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival this week – but he almost didn't make it to the event after getting trapped in his room at the Mercure Grand Hotel for an hour. 'In the end a member of staff had to kick the door in,' the 81-year-old said. 'I have never been locked in a hotel room before. I was once trapped in a lift at HMV in London with Kenny Everett for 20 minutes but that's another story…'

• Roy Chubby Brown was forced off stage in Wrexham last weekend when rowdy hecklers got too much for him. Apparently a number of fans started whistling, then the heckling began, prompting the comic to leave the stage of Glyndwr University's William Aston Hall while security dealt with the problem. Afterwards Brown posted on Facebook: 'Had a great show in Wrexham eventually last night, after a disruption from a few small groups of people who obviously don't know how to behave in a theatre, and were determined to spoil the show for my genuine fans!'

Tweets of the week

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