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YouTube video by Without The Beatles The Beatles & Monty Python (w Terry Gilliam)

Oh look, it’s another Beatles podcast you don’t have time to listen to! Never mind, here’s a short bit of Terry Gilliam pontificating about the Python/Beatles axis. #FabFoolsFriday #Beatles #Rutles #Comedy #MontyPython youtu.be/HjiID3E5LMg?... ✌🏻🃏🎶

YouTube video by Miscttake THE BEATLES "REANIMATED" COLLAB — PENNY LANE

The worst thing about the Beatles cartoon was the voices, and the script. So, yeah, keep them and re-do the visuals, the least worst thing about it... www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ-S...

Get It Right: Audiobook Perfectionism Just a little housekeeping squib of an update from me in these somewhat seismic times of upheaval here in Writhlington BA3. On one positive note, those lovely people at Erudio have cancelled my stu…

#FabFoolsFriday #Beatles #Rutles #Comedy #Audiobooks #Audible #GetBack jemroberts.com/2024/09/10/g...

Eric Idle: Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, Live! review – mock’n’roll star’s night of nostalgia The Monty Python man revisits his remarkable career, with songs dedicated to George Harrison and Robin Williams – and some ribbing of John Cleese

I know it's the job of every Guardian reviewer to be precisely as unqualified as they are incorrect about everything, but I'm so SICK of seeing Eric Idle publicity lionising the Rutles and NEVER Mentioning Neil Innes. Remember, Eric? Not famous enough? www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/s...

Only just heard 'Cups and Cakes': www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQBH...

It's no 'English Tea', but this is unequivocally the most ANY Beatle has EVER sent themselves up. Yep, more than Ringo and The Monkees flogging pizzas.

• The #ISIHAC Bible 🎺
• The True History of the Blackadder ⚔️
• The Frood: Official Douglas Adams & H2G2 🤖
• #SoupyTwists: Official Fry & Laurie story 🍸
• #FabFools: The Beatles & The Rutles 🃏🎶
• @TalesofBritain.bsky.social 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
On paper & Audible: audible.co.uk/author/Jem-R...

YouTube video by Billboard News Spinal Tap Doesn't Hold Back About Paul McCartney & ‘This is Spinal Tap’ Doc | Billboard News

May your #FabFools Friday go up to 11! This week'a Beatles comedy treat sees Sir Paul McCartney waste his time on this gaggle of strangely-accented metalheads: Spinal Tap II cameo! youtu.be/9ZBT5XPSDow?... 🎶🃏✌🏽

YouTube video by Billboard News Spinal Tap Doesn't Hold Back About Paul McCartney & ‘This is Spinal Tap’ Doc | Billboard News

May your #FabFools Friday go up to 11! This week'a Beatles comedy treat sees Sir Paul McCartney waste his time on this gaggle of strangely-accented metalheads: Spinal Tap II cameo! youtu.be/9ZBT5XPSDow?... 🎶🃏✌🏽

Peter Sellers Sings - BBC Sounds Ed Stewart talks to George Martin about producing Peter Sellers' comedy records.

This is a good listen for #FabFoolsFriday – nice to hear Sir George talk about something other than 'A Day In The Life' for a bit. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #Beatles #Comedy #FabFools 🎶🃏✌🏽

BBC Radio 4 - This Cultural Life, Eric Idle Comic writer, musician and actor Eric Idle reveals his creative influences.

There's also a very funny bit in the BBC's This Cultural Life Eric Idle episode where the presenter mentions "The Rutles, who toured for many years" – as if that fact is anything but a thorn in Eric's side. I'd have loved to have seen his face at that moment. RIP Neil. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Peter Sellers Sings - BBC Sounds Ed Stewart talks to George Martin about producing Peter Sellers' comedy records.

This is a good listen for #FabFoolsFriday – nice to hear Sir George talk about something other than 'A Day In The Life' for a bit. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #Beatles #Comedy #FabFools 🎶🃏✌🏽

YouTube video by FilmKunst Peter Sellers reads The Beatles’ “She Loves You” in 4 different accents: very funny!

Happy 100th to Peter Sellers – The Beatles' very pal, and singular interpreter of their greatest works... youtu.be/EEzJTMf1ZF8

YouTube video by TV Gold No Trams to Lime Street (1970)

This #FabFoolsFriday, someone has slung Alun Owen's NO TRAMS TO LIME STREET online – sadly not the original, but the 1970 second remake, lacking colour. Still a fascinating squint at why Owen was the best writer ever to cater for The Beatles: youtu.be/ezTccAA2UwQ?... 🎶🃏✌🏽

YouTube video by TV Gold No Trams to Lime Street (1970)

This #FabFoolsFriday, someone has slung Alun Owen's NO TRAMS TO LIME STREET online – sadly not the original, but the 1970 second remake, lacking colour. Still a fascinating squint at why Owen was the best writer ever to cater for The Beatles: youtu.be/ezTccAA2UwQ?... 🎶🃏✌🏽

This is a historic #FolkloreThursday! Our sister book/audiobook, HISTORIES OF BRITAIN has launched! Read on to learn more about bringing back to life Caesar, Gildas, Bede and others… jemroberts.com/2025/09/04/h... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The Fab Four’ is such a nice way to describe The Beatles. I’d been calling them ‘The Four Men’

For the 58th anniversary of his acceptance of a teaching post in Australia, this #FabFoolsFriday let’s hear it for the great Leggy Mountbatten, the real 5th Rutle! (Plus we just rewatched Polanski’s Macbeth and forgot Terence Bayler was MacDuff! RIP to a wonderful actor.)

YouTube video by OxAeroBabixO The Beatles perform Shakespeare, in colour

This #FabFoolsFriday, it’s nonono 10 years since I spent the afternoon with the late great Trevor Peacock to talk about his performing Shakespeare with The Beatles: youtu.be/dxGo9zHHrGM?...
Plus we’re in Alnwick Castle today, home of Hotspur, so it’s doubly suitable. ✌🏽🃏🎶🏰⚔️❤️

YouTube video by OxAeroBabixO The Beatles perform Shakespeare, in colour

This #FabFoolsFriday, it’s nonono 10 years since I spent the afternoon with the late great Trevor Peacock to talk about his performing Shakespeare with The Beatles: youtu.be/dxGo9zHHrGM?...
Plus we’re in Alnwick Castle today, home of Hotspur, so it’s doubly suitable. ✌🏽🃏🎶🏰⚔️❤️

YouTube video by Jem Roberts Tales of Britain: The Kingdom of the Seals

EDINBURGH THIS SUNDAY 3PM! Tales of Britain will be on at THE OUTHOUSE! To celebrate our Scottish spree, here’s THE KINGDOM OF THE SEALS for #FolkloreThursday! youtu.be/08c2Aw7KRb0?... 🦭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

YouTube video by Jem Roberts The Beatles & Joe Orton: 'Up Against It' 1

Fab #FabFoolsFriday all! Hoping to see some of you at Ludlow Castle Bookshop Sunday at 5pm as part of Ludlow Fringe, sharing rarities from my comedy history books! What will I perform from FF? Maybe a snatch of UP AGAINST IT? youtu.be/_9QGhkMONvI?... ✌🏾🎶🃏

YouTube video by Jem Roberts Neil Innes talks FAB FOOLS

This #FabFoolsFriday: A chat and a jam with our much-missed very pal and official patron, Sir Neil Innes AKA Ron Nasty MBE – back when we were Living In Hope: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkD0... ✌🏾🎶🃏

YouTube video by Jem Roberts Neil Innes talks FAB FOOLS

This #FabFoolsFriday: A chat and a jam with our much-missed very pal and official patron, Sir Neil Innes AKA Ron Nasty MBE – back when we were Living In Hope: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkD0... ✌🏾🎶🃏

This fab #FabFoolsFriday, here's my reconstruction of Frankie Howerd and Wendy Richard's sequence from The Beatles' HELP!: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll39...

I may be performing this – or another Beatles rarity – at my author's event for Ludlow Fringe, sharing VERY rare comedy... ✌🏾🎶🃏

As South Park's scraped back a splat of relevance, let's jump on that bus this #FabFoolsFriday. southpark.fandom.com/wiki/The_Bea...

'Kill John Lennon' aside, there aren't that many Beatles/South Park crossovers, but I do love how wrong this photo of Chef is. Is that George on the left? ✌🏾🎶🃏

What. Have. I. Just. Watched?

YouTube video by Drafthouse Films EBONY & IVORY | Official Red Band Trailer | Drafthouse Films

This week's #FabFoolsFriday Beatles Comedy treat is… whatever the fuuuuck this is aiming to be:

EBONY & IVORY: THE MOVIE
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2eb...

PS If you hate the song Ebony & Ivory, you're a racist. ✌🏾🎵🃏🎹

Happy #FabFoolsFriday! Sadly, of everything ever done in the name of Fab Fools, uploading this video to Facebook has probably been the most bloody successful. #Beatles #Rutles #NeilInnes #Comedy✌🏽🃏🎶🥁🎸 fb.watch/AMxYYaOTo1

Is it really too much just to ask frigging morons to stop writing, and even bigger morons to stop commissioning and paying the other morons to write?

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Sorry for all the continuing war and hate, everyone, I totally missed Ringo’s midday birthday mantra. :(