John O’Farrell
@johnofarrell.bsky.social
Author/comedy scriptwriter.
Recent stuff: Just For One Day, the Live Aid Musical, Family Politics (novel), Chicken Run - Dawn of the Nugget, Mrs Doubtfire musical, Something Rotten! opening in June
Recent stuff: Just For One Day, the Live Aid Musical, Family Politics (novel), Chicken Run - Dawn of the Nugget, Mrs Doubtfire musical, Something Rotten! opening in June
On this 100th anniversary of Christopher Robin, please enjoy this picture of me playing him on the West End stage when I was 10.
December 22, 2025 at 1:38 PM
On this 100th anniversary of Christopher Robin, please enjoy this picture of me playing him on the West End stage when I was 10.
Tune in for Just For One Day - stay for the dancing border collie.
Don't miss the UK's debut broadcast of this year's amazing @royalvariety.bsky.social on #ITV and @itvx.com this Sunday, 21st Dec at 7.05pm! #JasonManford hosts this year's stunning performance, staged at London's @royalalberthall.bsky.social, in the presence of TRH #ThePrinceAndPrincessOfWales.
December 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Tune in for Just For One Day - stay for the dancing border collie.
I just came home on the tube (the Friday night before Xmas) and I have my suspicions that one or two passengers may have been drinking.
December 19, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I just came home on the tube (the Friday night before Xmas) and I have my suspicions that one or two passengers may have been drinking.
Cue the Daily Telegraph - 'Abramovich raid shows how Labour is crippling our hard-working middle class'
December 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Cue the Daily Telegraph - 'Abramovich raid shows how Labour is crippling our hard-working middle class'
Is it "How to turn on Google Maps?"
December 17, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Is it "How to turn on Google Maps?"
My Live Aid musical wot I wrote has just announced a national tour opening at Leicester Curve theatre in March 2027. You can still see it in the West End until February.
www.whatsonstage.com/news/just-fo...
www.whatsonstage.com/news/just-fo...
Just For One Day – The Live Aid Musical to embark on tour in 2027
The jukebox show is currently running in the West End
www.whatsonstage.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:28 PM
My Live Aid musical wot I wrote has just announced a national tour opening at Leicester Curve theatre in March 2027. You can still see it in the West End until February.
www.whatsonstage.com/news/just-fo...
www.whatsonstage.com/news/just-fo...
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HarperCollins Author Academy opens 8th January, a virtual, six-week, free programme for writers from underrepresented to have their manuscript considered across HarperCollins UK publishing divisions.
Please share with anyone that might be interested.
Find out more at harpercollinsacademy.co.uk
Please share with anyone that might be interested.
Find out more at harpercollinsacademy.co.uk
Welcome to the HarperCollins Author Academy - HarperCollins Author Academy
Free-for-student six-week training programme created for writers from underrepresented ethnic backgrounds. Applications Open 8 January. The Author Academy offers writers … Continued
harpercollinsacademy.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 8:05 AM
HarperCollins Author Academy opens 8th January, a virtual, six-week, free programme for writers from underrepresented to have their manuscript considered across HarperCollins UK publishing divisions.
Please share with anyone that might be interested.
Find out more at harpercollinsacademy.co.uk
Please share with anyone that might be interested.
Find out more at harpercollinsacademy.co.uk
Apparently Fulham’s second Badger mascot is not Billy’s girlfriend but his sister. I am expecting another twist in the story at Christmas when angry Billy shouts “You’re not my mother”, and tearful Bella replies “Yes I am!”
#FFC
#FFC
Don’t say Fulham haven’t made any signings. Billy the Badger has got a girlfriend.
December 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Apparently Fulham’s second Badger mascot is not Billy’s girlfriend but his sister. I am expecting another twist in the story at Christmas when angry Billy shouts “You’re not my mother”, and tearful Bella replies “Yes I am!”
#FFC
#FFC
It’s weird how the news sometimes isn’t news. “Farage the school racist” was in the public domain five years ago, but it just wasn’t getting any traction. (Tweets below from 2020) Sometimes a story just has to wait until its time has come…
December 7, 2025 at 1:12 PM
It’s weird how the news sometimes isn’t news. “Farage the school racist” was in the public domain five years ago, but it just wasn’t getting any traction. (Tweets below from 2020) Sometimes a story just has to wait until its time has come…
Fully expecting Donald Trump to be credited with scoring USA’s first World Cup goal.
December 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Fully expecting Donald Trump to be credited with scoring USA’s first World Cup goal.
Scotland prediction. Heroic draw with Brazil. Then lose to Haiti.
December 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Scotland prediction. Heroic draw with Brazil. Then lose to Haiti.
That's sweet that Nigel has stayed in touch with his imaginary friends.
Nigel Farage says he won't release the names of his former school friends who have written to him to say he definitely wasn't a massive racist and anti-semite, because journalists will: "chase after them and make their life a misery"
December 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
That's sweet that Nigel has stayed in touch with his imaginary friends.
New tax raising idea - anyone writing outraged articles in the Telegraph about the Mansion Tax or VAT on Schools will have to pay the 'Whingeing Tax'
Higher rate Whingeing Tax if you claim to represent ordinary people or say how hard your family had to work to have all this.
Higher rate Whingeing Tax if you claim to represent ordinary people or say how hard your family had to work to have all this.
December 4, 2025 at 11:04 AM
New tax raising idea - anyone writing outraged articles in the Telegraph about the Mansion Tax or VAT on Schools will have to pay the 'Whingeing Tax'
Higher rate Whingeing Tax if you claim to represent ordinary people or say how hard your family had to work to have all this.
Higher rate Whingeing Tax if you claim to represent ordinary people or say how hard your family had to work to have all this.
Actually I think you'll find that a 'septopus'.
December 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Actually I think you'll find that a 'septopus'.
Just home from an incredible game at Craven Cottage. Now at least Fulham know what they have to do to find their mojo. Just let in five goals first.
December 2, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Just home from an incredible game at Craven Cottage. Now at least Fulham know what they have to do to find their mojo. Just let in five goals first.
The 'Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?' debate gets earlier every year.
British public’s verdict is in: Die Hard is not a Christmas movie
British public’s verdict is in: Die Hard is not a Christmas movie
Survey also reveals Britons’ favourite festive film, views on tear-jerkers and family cinema trips
When Macaulay Culkin recently said he didn’t consider Die Hard to be a Christmas film – wading into one of pop culture’s most heated holiday debates – he was booed by a live audience.
But it looks like the British people are behind the actor, with a survey revealing that Home Alone is the UK’s favourite festive film, while Die Hard has officially been voted not a Christmas movie. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:06 PM
The 'Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?' debate gets earlier every year.
I’ve seen enough rom-coms to know that Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana get married in the end.
November 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I’ve seen enough rom-coms to know that Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana get married in the end.
Tub of Nocellara olives just burst all over the contents of my Waitrose bag. Don’t tell me the middle classes are not suffering under Starmer.
November 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Tub of Nocellara olives just burst all over the contents of my Waitrose bag. Don’t tell me the middle classes are not suffering under Starmer.
What a powerful story. A reminder of the power of art and culture to change lives.
My cultural awakening: Thelma & Louise made me realise I was stuck in an unhappy marriage
My cultural awakening: Thelma & Louise made me realise I was stuck in an unhappy marriage
One line from Ridley Scott’s classic movie was the shove I needed to walk out on my husband after years of his controlling behaviour
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:44 AM
What a powerful story. A reminder of the power of art and culture to change lives.
Time for my annual moan that because we do not have Thanksgiving in the UK - BLACK FRIDAY IS NOT A THING HERE!
*gets trampled by British shoppers rushing to get bargains*
*gets trampled by British shoppers rushing to get bargains*
November 28, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Time for my annual moan that because we do not have Thanksgiving in the UK - BLACK FRIDAY IS NOT A THING HERE!
*gets trampled by British shoppers rushing to get bargains*
*gets trampled by British shoppers rushing to get bargains*
This beautiful hare disappeared for more than 20 years. Then in 2009, I presented a documentary on Radio 4 telling the fascinating story of the book and the race to find the hare and it finally resurfaced as a result.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
November 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
This beautiful hare disappeared for more than 20 years. Then in 2009, I presented a documentary on Radio 4 telling the fascinating story of the book and the race to find the hare and it finally resurfaced as a result.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
At some level I still react to Budget Day with the thought “that’s annoying- all the kids TV will be over on BBC2.”
November 26, 2025 at 9:35 AM
At some level I still react to Budget Day with the thought “that’s annoying- all the kids TV will be over on BBC2.”
Don’t say Fulham haven’t made any signings. Billy the Badger has got a girlfriend.
November 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Don’t say Fulham haven’t made any signings. Billy the Badger has got a girlfriend.
The suggestion that my co-writer and I kept eating Nando’s while we were writing the sequel is a monstrous libel and we will sue anyone who suggests it.
November 22, 2025 at 9:05 AM
The suggestion that my co-writer and I kept eating Nando’s while we were writing the sequel is a monstrous libel and we will sue anyone who suggests it.