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WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• 'There's an inherent anger in English audiences' Russell Howard.

• Look carefully in the Captain America movie, and you might just be able to spot the Bluth family's stair car from Arrested Development. As a few eagle-eyed cinema-goers have already posted on Twitter, the prop can be seen in an airport scene in the new film, directed by Joe and Anthony Russo – who also worked on several episodes of the sitcom.

• Al Murray has revealed that he once had to cancel a show because of a party balloon. He said: 'I was preparing for my daughter's second birthday party and… it burst and hit me right on the eyeball. I didn't have time to blink and it really, really fucking hurt,' he told fellow comics Carl Donnelly and Chris Martin on their podcast. 'I basically couldn't open my eye.' The Pub Landlord creator also said that after naming his autumn tour Let's Go Backwards Together, he realised its initials spelled out LGBT. 'It was an accident,' he said.

• Matt Lucas posted this today:

Today I got dressed in my trailer & went to make-up, where I discovered I'd gone to another actor's trailer & put on his clothes by mistake.
— Matt Lucas (@RealMattLucas) May 20, 2016

• Greg Davies once almost drowned when he got swept out to sea while surfing in Cornwall. On the Graham Norton Show tonight, he reveals: 'I was really struggling. I called out to a surfer for help and realised he was almost drowning too. In the end I rode a wave on my boogie board into the cliff and hung on to the rock. It was really jagged and I cut my hand. It was awful. I saw this lifeguard coming out on a canoe. He was really powerful and turned out to be Australian. The was blood running down my arms and I thought, "Thank God, I'm saved." He came right up to me and called out, "Oh, mate, stop effing around!'"

• Don't ever call The Boy With Tape On His Face inimitable… as he certainly can be imitated. The silent comic, aka Sam , has tracked down several pirate versions of his act on YouTube, and reposted them on his channel, such as an Indonesian version:

A girl with tape on her face:

And a cheat using elastic, not tape, as the crucial adehsive:

• It might not be a surprise to anyone who remembers him as Vyvyan in the Young Ones, but Adrian Edmondson has admitted he used to have anger issues. He said: ' I would take my anger out on tractors, I would smash things up with a hammer, I would scream at other people in cars.' He said reading about the stoics of ancient philosophy helped him calm down.

• 'There's too much comedy. When presidential candidates are making dick jokes, what are comedians supposed to do?' Trevor Noah