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
Two weeks of brilliant public transport and great service across Japan, then back to a 2 hour wait for our baggage to turn up at Heathrow. No explanation or apologies from @british-airways.bsky.social - just me being embarrassed in front of lots of tourists getting their first impression of the UK.
January 10, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Two weeks of brilliant public transport and great service across Japan, then back to a 2 hour wait for our baggage to turn up at Heathrow. No explanation or apologies from @british-airways.bsky.social - just me being embarrassed in front of lots of tourists getting their first impression of the UK.
“…and rock and roll.”
January 8, 2026 at 10:43 PM
“…and rock and roll.”
Reposted by John O’Farrell
Happy 50th birthday, Ripping Yarns! The comedy anthology created by Michael Palin and Terry Jones began #OTD in 1976 with the pilot episode. A few years ago I sought the views of Sir Michael and superfan @johnofarrell.bsky.social: www.radiotimes.com/tv/comedy/si... @radiotimes.bsky.social
Sir Michael Palin reflects on the "step into the unknown" that would become a comedy classic
Ripping Yarns, the masterly anthology series that Palin created with fellow Python Terry Jones, is 45 this week – and now on BritBox. So how did it come about? And which is Palin's favourite episode?
www.radiotimes.com
January 7, 2026 at 8:12 AM
Happy 50th birthday, Ripping Yarns! The comedy anthology created by Michael Palin and Terry Jones began #OTD in 1976 with the pilot episode. A few years ago I sought the views of Sir Michael and superfan @johnofarrell.bsky.social: www.radiotimes.com/tv/comedy/si... @radiotimes.bsky.social
missing my dog back home, so got a cheap fix at a Japanese dog cafe
January 4, 2026 at 1:14 PM
missing my dog back home, so got a cheap fix at a Japanese dog cafe
Finally - some instructions. I can’t believe I’ve been doing it wrong all this time.
December 31, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Finally - some instructions. I can’t believe I’ve been doing it wrong all this time.
Well the Japanese Something Rotten was great! I never imagined when we were writing this show in a cafe in Clapham, that one day we’d be meeting a wonderful cast in Tokyo.
December 30, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Well the Japanese Something Rotten was great! I never imagined when we were writing this show in a cafe in Clapham, that one day we’d be meeting a wonderful cast in Tokyo.
Nice Japanese poster for our musical. Seeing it tomorrow - don't tell me what happens.
December 29, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Nice Japanese poster for our musical. Seeing it tomorrow - don't tell me what happens.
Clapham Common looking lovely this morning…
December 28, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Clapham Common looking lovely this morning…
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...
Reposted by John O’Farrell
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'.