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Jeremy Corbyn interruped my gig...

WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• Seeking a comment on the effect of the EU referendum result on the Fringe, the Glasgow Herald sought the opinion of a French comedian on the festival. 'Post-Brexit, the British audiences need humour, but also a reminder of what they have waved goodbye to,' they quoted him sagely saying, seemingly unaware that Marcel Lucont is, in fact, a made-up character character. Even the first part of his quote didn't seem to arouse suspicion as they cut-and-pasted him attributing the festival-wide sales bump to 'the fact that I am back in town after a year's absence, reminding audiences of the quality that can truly be achieved in comedy.'

• Charmian Hughes has had her Edinburgh show interrupted by Jeremy Corbyn. Or at least his office. She plays the opening music to her Cowgatehead show Soixante Mirth from her phone, but admits she didn't know how to disable calls. So 20 minutes into one show, it rang through the speakers, and she answered, to hear: 'Hello this is Jeremy Corbyn's campaign office. Is it convenient to talk?' Hughes explained she was in the middle of performing a show. After a pause the campaigner ploughed on with her script: 'I was just wondering whether Jeremy can count on your vote in the leadership election?' Hughes decided to put it to the audience, and reports 'their support turned out to be a bit mixed'.

• Posh kids chucked a full pint of beer over Patrick Monahan at a late-night Edinburgh gig this week, after he slapped them down for heckling. 'I'm playing to the other 195 people in the room who are enjoying this and not just to the five middle-class kids with trust funds who think they can dictate the whole night' he told them. After the pint was chucked, the group left to a chorus of chants and boos, with Monhan telling the audience: 'Only a posh person would throw a full pint at the stage. An honest working class person would have drunk the pint first and thrown the empty glass...'

• Black Lives Matter campaigner have been making their points at various peculiar spots, but this might have been one of the oddest. They invaded the stage of UCB East comedy venue in New York on Monday night... interrupting comedian Justin Tyler, who was in character as a baby, wearing nothing but a nappy.

• There's a lot of rubbish at the Fringe but now there's a bit less, thanks to comics Tony Cowards and Javier Jarquin. The pair took it on themselves to clear up the litter at the top of Arthur's Seat, after being shocked by the amount of trash there. 'We collected a bin bag full of litter, but, pleasing, only one flyer,' Cowards said. They are going back up at 9.15am on Monday if any volunteers want to join them. Meet at the roundabout of Queen's Drive and Duddingston Low Road.

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Published: 19 Aug 2016

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