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
Manchester United team photo (without any immigrants).
February 12, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Manchester United team photo (without any immigrants).
Reposted by John O’Farrell
We’re celebrating #HeartUnionsWeek this week + the vital work of unions
If you’re a writer in TV, film, theatre, audio, books, comedy, poetry, animation or videogames, it’s the perfect week to join WGGB, your trade union!
Find out more + join online:
www.writersguild.org.uk
If you’re a writer in TV, film, theatre, audio, books, comedy, poetry, animation or videogames, it’s the perfect week to join WGGB, your trade union!
Find out more + join online:
www.writersguild.org.uk
February 11, 2026 at 12:21 PM
We’re celebrating #HeartUnionsWeek this week + the vital work of unions
If you’re a writer in TV, film, theatre, audio, books, comedy, poetry, animation or videogames, it’s the perfect week to join WGGB, your trade union!
Find out more + join online:
www.writersguild.org.uk
If you’re a writer in TV, film, theatre, audio, books, comedy, poetry, animation or videogames, it’s the perfect week to join WGGB, your trade union!
Find out more + join online:
www.writersguild.org.uk
The whole world is completely screwed and full of terrible people doing terrible things - but still nothing this year has made me as angry as the ending of Bugonia.
February 11, 2026 at 10:06 AM
The whole world is completely screwed and full of terrible people doing terrible things - but still nothing this year has made me as angry as the ending of Bugonia.
I am offering Babs to help clean up politics.
February 10, 2026 at 12:01 PM
I am offering Babs to help clean up politics.
It was downhill from there...
Jumbo Spencer, a five-part children's drama based on the book by Helen (Lizzie Dripping) Cresswell, began #OTD 50 years ago. Among the young stars was John O'Farrell. @radiotimes.bsky.social
February 9, 2026 at 5:50 PM
It was downhill from there...
As part of the release of WhatsApp messages regarding Mandelson, I feel duty bound to share this exchange between my daughter and myself from back in September. Not quite sure how the request about a movie recommendation will be treated by the enquiry.
February 9, 2026 at 11:40 AM
As part of the release of WhatsApp messages regarding Mandelson, I feel duty bound to share this exchange between my daughter and myself from back in September. Not quite sure how the request about a movie recommendation will be treated by the enquiry.
For the final performance of Just For One Day, they put real whisky in Maggie's Thatcher's glass and it was very funny seeing Julie Atherton react and still drink two inches of whisky on stage.
February 9, 2026 at 10:43 AM
For the final performance of Just For One Day, they put real whisky in Maggie's Thatcher's glass and it was very funny seeing Julie Atherton react and still drink two inches of whisky on stage.
Well today it really is 'Just For One Day'.
Ta-ta for now, Live Aid Musical, it's been a great run, from the Old Vic to the West End, via Toronto - what a pleasure and a privilege.
Ta-ta for now, Live Aid Musical, it's been a great run, from the Old Vic to the West End, via Toronto - what a pleasure and a privilege.
February 7, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Well today it really is 'Just For One Day'.
Ta-ta for now, Live Aid Musical, it's been a great run, from the Old Vic to the West End, via Toronto - what a pleasure and a privilege.
Ta-ta for now, Live Aid Musical, it's been a great run, from the Old Vic to the West End, via Toronto - what a pleasure and a privilege.
Just found out that Sir Paul McCartney came to see our Live Aid Musical last night and thought it was fantastic.
Two of his songs in the show, including the final number and I guess, message of the whole musical - so his lovely message to us means a hell of a lot.
Two of his songs in the show, including the final number and I guess, message of the whole musical - so his lovely message to us means a hell of a lot.
February 6, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Just found out that Sir Paul McCartney came to see our Live Aid Musical last night and thought it was fantastic.
Two of his songs in the show, including the final number and I guess, message of the whole musical - so his lovely message to us means a hell of a lot.
Two of his songs in the show, including the final number and I guess, message of the whole musical - so his lovely message to us means a hell of a lot.
We have some old American friends staying with us and it is weirdly reassuring to see their take on how the Epstein stuff is impacting the UK.
'Wow, in Britain, you still have consequences for immoral behaviour.'
'Wow, in Britain, you still have consequences for immoral behaviour.'
February 5, 2026 at 12:04 PM
We have some old American friends staying with us and it is weirdly reassuring to see their take on how the Epstein stuff is impacting the UK.
'Wow, in Britain, you still have consequences for immoral behaviour.'
'Wow, in Britain, you still have consequences for immoral behaviour.'
Cue all the brocialists saying 'Ah, but you see Chomsky is just keeping his enemies close'
February 5, 2026 at 10:22 AM
Cue all the brocialists saying 'Ah, but you see Chomsky is just keeping his enemies close'
'They spent the child benefit in the pub' was a 1970s cliche about the very worst sort of parents. Now it's Farage's policy.
NEW: Reform UK says it would re-impose the two-child benefit cap - scrapped by Labour - for most families to fund £3bn support package for pubs.
February 3, 2026 at 4:47 PM
'They spent the child benefit in the pub' was a 1970s cliche about the very worst sort of parents. Now it's Farage's policy.
Reposted by John O’Farrell
I took number two daughter to its first preview, where we bumped into @johnofarrell.bsky.social in the interval, & she's not stopped raving about it ever since, so she'll explode with joy at £20 standing tickets I just got for its closing night. Thank you for such a joyful & incredibly funny show.
February 3, 2026 at 11:58 AM
I took number two daughter to its first preview, where we bumped into @johnofarrell.bsky.social in the interval, & she's not stopped raving about it ever since, so she'll explode with joy at £20 standing tickets I just got for its closing night. Thank you for such a joyful & incredibly funny show.
Can't think of any.
While Reform's candidate Matthew Goodwin is much better known in academia, media & think-tanks than to the publicl, he is unusually high profile for a by-election candidate. I wonder which if any party by-election candidates (say this century) were better known without having previously been an MP?
February 3, 2026 at 11:04 AM
Can't think of any.
If only there had been some sort of clue that Mandelson was dodgy.
February 2, 2026 at 12:14 PM
If only there had been some sort of clue that Mandelson was dodgy.
Reposted by John O’Farrell
David Nobbs Memorial Trust 2026 competition opens: www.comedy.co.uk/pro/news/862...
David Nobbs Memorial Trust 2026 competition opens - BCG Pro
The David Nobbs Memorial Trust's annual comedy writing competition is open for entries until 6th March 2026.
www.comedy.co.uk
February 2, 2026 at 12:03 PM
David Nobbs Memorial Trust 2026 competition opens: www.comedy.co.uk/pro/news/862...
I must say I feel so much better about Amazon sucking all the money out of publishing and denying authors any viable income, now that I know that all those millions were used to pay Melania for her pisspoor propaganda film.
February 2, 2026 at 10:35 AM
I must say I feel so much better about Amazon sucking all the money out of publishing and denying authors any viable income, now that I know that all those millions were used to pay Melania for her pisspoor propaganda film.
I think Andrew should do another interview with Emily Maitlis to draw a line under all this.
January 31, 2026 at 5:11 PM
I think Andrew should do another interview with Emily Maitlis to draw a line under all this.
Darth Vader has defected to Reform. He joins Vlad the Impaler, Idi Amin and Cruella de Vil as the latest heavyweights to bolster Farage's team.
January 26, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Darth Vader has defected to Reform. He joins Vlad the Impaler, Idi Amin and Cruella de Vil as the latest heavyweights to bolster Farage's team.
John Logie Baird transmitted the first television images a hundred years ago today. And then his grown up kids were immediately asking for his log-in code.
January 26, 2026 at 11:05 AM
John Logie Baird transmitted the first television images a hundred years ago today. And then his grown up kids were immediately asking for his log-in code.
I think I understand #BlueMonday now. Apparently it's when everyone is a little bit depressed, because it's cold and dark and the glow of Christmas has faded and it's the start of World War Three.
January 19, 2026 at 3:56 PM
I think I understand #BlueMonday now. Apparently it's when everyone is a little bit depressed, because it's cold and dark and the glow of Christmas has faded and it's the start of World War Three.
"If you don't give me a peace prize, I will start a war."
January 19, 2026 at 1:55 PM
"If you don't give me a peace prize, I will start a war."
Reposted by John O’Farrell
"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."
January 16, 2026 at 10:29 AM
"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."
'Only we can deal with these dreadful fires' claims serial arsonist.
January 16, 2026 at 10:00 AM
'Only we can deal with these dreadful fires' claims serial arsonist.
Under UK electoral law Robert Jenrick remains the MP for Newark because it is an anagram of wanker.
January 15, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Under UK electoral law Robert Jenrick remains the MP for Newark because it is an anagram of wanker.