John O’Farrell
Author/comedy scriptwriter. Recent stuff: Family Politics (novel), Just For One Day, the Live Aid Musical, Chicken Run - Dawn of the Nugget, Mrs Doubtfire musical, We Are History (podcast).
Plus I've still got my paper round.
- Shaftesbury Theatre nearly ready for our new show… (previews begin tomorrow)
- Babs has been staying with our daughter while we were away. She said she wouldn’t spoil her…
- Driving through County Clare and we stumbled upon a familiar looking old house…
- I like how the tube driver stopped this train in just the right place for me.
- Special shout out to all the picture editors who put Bob Geldof in their newspapers without blurring his little badge.
- We did the press event for our Live Aid musical today - at a little place called Wembley Stadium. www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrit...
- Mrs Doubtfire is going on tour There's a few hotel rooms that are going to get a damn good hoovering.
- Urgent warning - Feathers McGraw has disguised himself as a lamppost and is hiding out in central London.
- self-important goose
- After over 800 performances, this evening will be the final performance of the Mrs Doubtfire musical at the @shaftesburytheatre.bsky.social - thank you to all our amazing cast and crew. I will miss the laughter, the friendships, but most of all the cheques.
- 10 years ago, Something Rotten opened on Broadway. Oh and happy birthday to Shakespeare too.
- “Except you can’t call it the mating season anymore because of woke…”
- I give it seven weeks.
- I'm going right off J D Vance.
- Oh 'Lauren Sanchez'? I thought they said 'Lawrie Sanchez'. I thought it was a bit weird that the former Wimbledon striker and Fulham manager had gone into space with all these celebrity women.
- When your barista actually wants to be an illustrator...
- All those red MAGA hats and plastic stars and stripes are made in China. This is going to cost the Republicans a fortune.
- Shame on me.
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- The brilliant Laura Tebbut leaves Mrs Doubtfire today and the entire cast came to warm up as her.
- A quick search reveals that Meta (Facebook) have stolen 12 of my books without payment or permission. It's not 'Artificial Intelligence'; it's the hard work of writers whose work is copied without compensation or permission. #Dothewritething Sign the petition here; www.change.org/p/protect-au...
- She's being very cooperative about the crucifixion.
- We shouldn't take action against Hitler for invading Poland, that would only encourage his support base.
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- It turns out those frogs in my pond were not playing piggy backs after all.
- Civilisation 1 - Knuckleheads 0
- Fake news. I’m 39.
- If you ever wanted to know the Portuguese for 'Mrs Doubtfire' - this is the showcloth from our musical currently playing in Brazil.
- The very idea that Sepp Blatter was ever corrupt! How could they even have imagined such a thing? The top three morally pure altruistic saints basically goes... Mother Theresa, Mahatma Gandhi and Sepp Blatter.
- Young bookseller added up the total and said "that's £25.25" and I said "If man can still survive". Absolutely nothing. Faint sad smile for the old boomer at most.
- Great to see @jasonmanford.bsky.social and Daniel Mays doing 'A Musical' from our show Something Rotten! on BBC1's Big Night of Musicals. Coming to the UK next year.
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- It is ten years since we launched Something Rotten! on Broadway. I'm delighted to announce that our first musical is finally getting a run in the UK. Everybody; "🎼Welcome to the Renaissance...🎵" www.whatsonstage.com/news/somethi...
- Today is the Spring Equinox, which is the one day a year when your parents' conservatory is not freezing cold or boiling hot.
- Great speech Pete!
- I talked to the Radio Times about the classic sit-com The Good Life. (Spoiler Alert - Tom is not the anti-establishment hero to me that he was in 1975) www.radiotimes.com/tv/comedy/go...
- I am about 60% Irish - so Happy St Patrick's Day till mid-afternoon. ☘️🇮🇪
- Break a leg to the cast of Just For One Day, the Live Aid Musical- doing their last show in Toronto tonight before the show comes to the West End in May.
- Football fans furious today - unruly mob currently surrounding BBC offices chanting 'It's Who's plays WHOM!'
