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06.10.2025 16:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@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, We Are History (podcast).
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06.10.2025 16:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"For the Conservatives loved their country so much, they could almost spell it..."
06.10.2025 15:48 — 👍 51 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 4Paddington is such a canny media manipulator - he knows this is great publicity for both of them.
06.10.2025 15:44 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Thanks - if you do come down let me know and I can get discounted tickets Tues-Friday.
03.10.2025 15:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0(joint)
03.10.2025 15:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment
03.10.2025 11:02 — 👍 16567 🔁 2613 💬 407 📌 106I 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."
I think it's a great show - but don't take the writer's word for it - read the reviews on Show Score - 95% - there is no higher score in the West End.
www.show-score.com/uk/london/we...
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...
We'll never forget where we were when we first heard the news.
02.10.2025 09:38 — 👍 49 🔁 4 💬 14 📌 1This article was based on the testimony of film director Peter Ettedgui who was at Dulwich with him. (Hope you able to access and translate)
elpais.com/internaciona...
Rachel wearing very flimsy looking apron, mask and visor in NHS setting
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? 🧵
'Volunteering' when it is not voluntary.
30.09.2025 10:05 — 👍 60 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 0Fantastic performance tonight by the cast of Just For One Day - a real highlight of Magic at the Musicals - as they blew the roof off the Albert Hall*.
*Metaphorically. For real would be a shame.
Public Service Announcement for anyone with an allotment or vegetable patch.
Thanks, but none of us want a marrow.
'colorful'?
23.09.2025 16:56 — 👍 17 🔁 0 💬 5 📌 0spokesperson for Sadiq Khan:
“We are not going to dignify his appalling and bigoted comments with a response.
“London is the greatest city in the world, safer than major US cities, and we’re delighted to welcome the record number of US citizens moving here.”
Thank you Donald Trump for resolving that terrible war between Cambodia and Armenia. Now can you bring about peace between Narnia and the Kingdom of Leather.
22.09.2025 13:07 — 👍 21 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0If you are going to start playing deportation bingo, we could just as easily say 'You can't live in the UK if you have a foreign sounding surname and a non-British partner - Farage, pack your bags - you're out.'
22.09.2025 11:37 — 👍 22 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0Thank you - it was nice to meet you too and I enjoyed your article. Good luck with the rest of your writing x
21.09.2025 12:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From
18.09.2025 16:00 — 👍 12899 🔁 3114 💬 174 📌 169The fawning cowards at Disney and ABC who cancelled Jimmy Kimmel's show for the mildest bit of Trump satire should be named and shamed - and when this is all over be paraded down Hollywood's Walk of Fame as comedy fans throw custard pies at them.
18.09.2025 14:47 — 👍 20 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0I shall make it happen (as if by accident)
17.09.2025 18:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0They projected a well-known photograph of Epstein with Trump. How is that a 'malicious communication' if it is sharing a fact?
17.09.2025 15:12 — 👍 25 🔁 5 💬 4 📌 0September? But the entire twenty-first century has not involved me updating my look.
17.09.2025 15:08 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1In London, hate will never win.
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Well that’s very kind of you, thank you.
13.09.2025 10:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks ❤️
12.09.2025 20:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If you are at all interested in our experiences at Spitting Image etc, here's what I said in my speech at the memorial (shared with permission of the family).
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