Nudity, a love child and a fractured arm...

WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• ‘I spend my time wishing people dead.’ Jerry Sadowitz

• Fun at the Comedy In The Dark show at the Edinburgh Fringe last night, as one audience member took all his clothes off during a blackout. He sat there while the lights came back up again, then re-clothed himself during the next blackout.

• Is this the best response to the ‘What’s your name?’ question ever asked from a comedy stage? Ahih Shah uncovered a punter in his Fringe show last weekend who was genuinely called Robin Rainbow.

• How times have changed. In his Fringe reminiscence show, Rodney Bewes recalls the days when he was the toast of the BBC, being lavishly wined and dined at the Corporation’s expense as the Likely Lads drew audiences of up to 27 million viewers. But last weekend he was a guest on Al Murray’s Radio 2 show… and the Corporation wouldn’t even cover the price of a taxi home across Edinburgh.

• You'll recall that last year, Darren Walsh won the joke of the Fringe title with: 'I just deleted all the German names off my phone. It's Hans free.' Well, this week he's had to use a hands-free mike, after fracturing his arm when he fell off his bike...

• Before the Fringe we listed 10 comedians who were the progeny of other performers. But it seems we missed one: the illegitimate son of Country and Western singer – and 1984 Perrier award nominee – Hank Wangford has a show about discovering the family link at the ripe old age of 27. Joe Davies says: 'I was following in my fathers footsteps before I even met the guy!'. His show, Who's The Daddy is on at the Dragonfly at 5pm.

• Has the Edinburgh PR machine got out of control? We know of one young comic who has employed a publicist for their first show, lasting just half an hour. And when we went along to review, they said didn’t want critics in. Money well spent there, then.

• You’ve got to advertise where you can. Patrick Monahan has set up a profile on Tinder during his Fringe run saying: ‘Hello my name is Patrick and I’m performing at the Edinburgh Festival this month. I was born in Iran to an Iranian mum and an Irish father! My mum has always wanted me to have a British passport – if you can help then get in touch! Or just come along to my show and say hello. No hook ups. Thank you’.

• But type 'Sean McLoughlin, Edinburgh' into Google and you get this: A story about the comic’s namesake jailed earlier this year for threatening a woman with an axe because the shop she worked in did not stock Buckfast.

• And away from the Fringe for a second, Indian comedian Aditi Mittal, who plays the Soho Theatre from tomorrow is is 477th in line for the Mittal Steel fortune, which is worth around £7billion and change.