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
I am in Germany for the premiere of ‘Mrs Doubtfire Das Musical’ (whatever that means)
November 6, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I am in Germany for the premiere of ‘Mrs Doubtfire Das Musical’ (whatever that means)
Lord Dubs is 92 years old and this is his first rebellion. 👏👏👏
My amendment to the Border, Asylum and Immigration Bill on family reunion for child refugees will be debated by peers either tomorrow or next Tuesday...🧵 1/5
November 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Lord Dubs is 92 years old and this is his first rebellion. 👏👏👏
Something Rotten! is opening in Manchester in June. Two years on Broadway, (10 Tony noms) - it’s played all over the world but finally getting a proper run in the UK. Great songs, funny jokes: if you don’t love it, I will give you a million pounds.
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/the...
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/the...
Jason Manford to star in major new premiere of award-winning musical
"It's a full bells and whistles production, the dancing will be exceptional, the music is fab, the songs are so funny"
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Something Rotten! is opening in Manchester in June. Two years on Broadway, (10 Tony noms) - it’s played all over the world but finally getting a proper run in the UK. Great songs, funny jokes: if you don’t love it, I will give you a million pounds.
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/the...
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/the...
Finished Riot Women last night - what a brilliant piece of TV. Gripping, pacy, funny with important things to say. A fun story about older women forming a punk band - but it's actually about violence against women which it deals with so powerfully and Sally Wainwright deserves every award out there.
October 28, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Finished Riot Women last night - what a brilliant piece of TV. Gripping, pacy, funny with important things to say. A fun story about older women forming a punk band - but it's actually about violence against women which it deals with so powerfully and Sally Wainwright deserves every award out there.
Also - really annoying when the ball gets kicked out of the ground and you have to go all the way down to get it.
October 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Also - really annoying when the ball gets kicked out of the ground and you have to go all the way down to get it.
My mum died ten years ago today, so here's a couple of memories. She'd been a war child, so hated to waste food. When she had a new hip fitted, she asked the doctor if she could take the old bone home for the dog.
October 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
My mum died ten years ago today, so here's a couple of memories. She'd been a war child, so hated to waste food. When she had a new hip fitted, she asked the doctor if she could take the old bone home for the dog.
After a confusing six months, the clock on the microwave is now telling the right time.
October 26, 2025 at 8:21 AM
After a confusing six months, the clock on the microwave is now telling the right time.
That'll teach him.
October 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
That'll teach him.
Or we could just deport Katie Lam?
October 22, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Or we could just deport Katie Lam?
If only there was some visual metaphor for what the current incumbent at the White House was doing to the great office of President.
October 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
If only there was some visual metaphor for what the current incumbent at the White House was doing to the great office of President.
I like to think of myself as tolerant and open minded. However I do think there should be a swift and brutal police response to stop these young adults playing Quidditch on Clapham Common.
October 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I like to think of myself as tolerant and open minded. However I do think there should be a swift and brutal police response to stop these young adults playing Quidditch on Clapham Common.
That pub in Bloomsbury has changed its name to just ‘Andrew’.
October 18, 2025 at 7:27 AM
That pub in Bloomsbury has changed its name to just ‘Andrew’.
This is probably the judge being arrested because he had to say the words 'Palestine Action'
October 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
This is probably the judge being arrested because he had to say the words 'Palestine Action'
Every city should do this.
Meanwhile I shall continue to stare fixedly ahead whenever they hope to be let in during heavy traffic.
Meanwhile I shall continue to stare fixedly ahead whenever they hope to be let in during heavy traffic.
Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."
Cardiff set to tackle SUV 'carspreading' in UK first
Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and f...
nation.cymru
October 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Every city should do this.
Meanwhile I shall continue to stare fixedly ahead whenever they hope to be let in during heavy traffic.
Meanwhile I shall continue to stare fixedly ahead whenever they hope to be let in during heavy traffic.
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Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley. Perfection.
October 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley. Perfection.
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What would you do if you were totally free to live your best and biggest life?
Gender-based violence shapes women’s and girls’ lives in so many different ways - quietly limiting our freedoms and holding us back from following our dreams.
Gender-based violence shapes women’s and girls’ lives in so many different ways - quietly limiting our freedoms and holding us back from following our dreams.
October 15, 2025 at 8:30 AM
What would you do if you were totally free to live your best and biggest life?
Gender-based violence shapes women’s and girls’ lives in so many different ways - quietly limiting our freedoms and holding us back from following our dreams.
Gender-based violence shapes women’s and girls’ lives in so many different ways - quietly limiting our freedoms and holding us back from following our dreams.
This is a very good read (as you would expect).
One stand up comic I know told me the Saudis were paying £600,000 to the top names. Which is more than I ever got on The News Quiz.
One stand up comic I know told me the Saudis were paying £600,000 to the top names. Which is more than I ever got on The News Quiz.
October 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
This is a very good read (as you would expect).
One stand up comic I know told me the Saudis were paying £600,000 to the top names. Which is more than I ever got on The News Quiz.
One stand up comic I know told me the Saudis were paying £600,000 to the top names. Which is more than I ever got on The News Quiz.
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We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.
I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
October 8, 2025 at 10:08 AM
We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.
"For the Conservatives loved their country so much, they could almost spell it..."
October 6, 2025 at 3:48 PM
"For the Conservatives loved their country so much, they could almost spell it..."
Paddington is such a canny media manipulator - he knows this is great publicity for both of them.
Paddington makers sue Spitting Image
Paddington makers sue Spitting Image
Puppet satire shows bear as a drug fiend
dlvr.it
October 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Paddington is such a canny media manipulator - he knows this is great publicity for both of them.
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Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment
Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first
Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first
Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse, has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman has been appointed to the role in the Church of England's history.
news.sky.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment
I love the patronising arrogance of "the last time I checked" and then saying something 100% wrong.
"the last time I checked Northern Ireland was part of Canada."
"the last time I checked Northern Ireland was part of Canada."
October 3, 2025 at 10:41 AM
I love the patronising arrogance of "the last time I checked" and then saying something 100% wrong.
"the last time I checked Northern Ireland was part of Canada."
"the last time I checked Northern Ireland was part of Canada."
Our Live Aid musical has just announced it is extending. Now booking till February - with 10% of your ticket going towards the ongoing work of the Live Aid Trust.
theliveaidmusical.com?gad_source=1...
theliveaidmusical.com?gad_source=1...
JUST FOR ONE DAY - The Live Aid Musical | Shaftesbury Theatre
Just For One Day - The Live Aid Musical- 40 years on discover the story of Live Aid in a whole new way. Book your tickets now!
theliveaidmusical.com
October 3, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Our Live Aid musical has just announced it is extending. Now booking till February - with 10% of your ticket going towards the ongoing work of the Live Aid Trust.
theliveaidmusical.com?gad_source=1...
theliveaidmusical.com?gad_source=1...
We'll never forget where we were when we first heard the news.
October 2, 2025 at 9:38 AM
We'll never forget where we were when we first heard the news.
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Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.
Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.
What, Michelle? 🧵
Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.
What, Michelle? 🧵
October 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.
Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.
What, Michelle? 🧵
Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.
What, Michelle? 🧵