A week and a day until the @bathcomedyfest.bsky.social's annual comedy music jamboree, with Rutles/Bonzos/Beatles in pride of place! Just as they were in the RUTLES MEGAMIX in 2013... youtu.be/Np4Iotllvk0?... #FabFoolsFriday ✌🏾🎶🃏🥁

Sir Vivian Stanshall should be chowing down on 83rd birthday cake today, blast it all. ⛺️🦜👔 youtu.be/CWPDYdhGjnk?...

It's another #RedNoseDay/#FabFoolsFriday crossover! Here's Bananarama/Lananananeeneenoonoo's #ComicRelief cover of HELP! from 1989: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckhe... Here's BOTH living Beatles having to put up with James Corden from 2011: youtu.be/NW12S4-KB1I?... 🔴✌🏾🎶🃏🥁🔴

It's another #RedNoseDay/#FabFoolsFriday crossover! Here's Bananarama/Lananananeeneenoonoo's #ComicRelief cover of HELP! from 1989: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckhe... Here's BOTH living Beatles having to put up with James Corden from 2011: youtu.be/NW12S4-KB1I?... 🔴✌🏾🎶🃏🥁🔴

Gear #FabFoolsFriday! Here's the OTHER Beatles comedy TV special from 1978. The one they don't really talk about all that often… RINGO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JS_... #Rutles #Beatles #Comedy✌🏾🎶🃏🥁

Gear #FabFoolsFriday! Here's the OTHER Beatles comedy TV special from 1978. The one they don't really talk about all that often… RINGO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JS_... #Rutles #Beatles #Comedy✌🏾🎶🃏🥁

Hippy #FabFoolsFriday, nits! 55 and a bit years ago, George Harrison went on The Smothers Brothers comedy hour in the USA. At the time, the USA was 55 and a bit years away from complete psychopathic world-ending insanity. #Beatles #Comedy www.youtube.com/watch?v=_462... ✌🏾🎶🃏

Hippy #FabFoolsFriday, nits! 55 and a bit years ago, George Harrison went on The Smothers Brothers comedy hour in the USA. At the time, the USA was 55 and a bit years away from complete psychopathic world-ending insanity. #Beatles #Comedy www.youtube.com/watch?v=_462... ✌🏾🎶🃏

It's #WorldBookDay! Here's 9 or 10 very good suggestions of what to read next! www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Jem-R...

As it's one month to our big comedy folktale show for @BathComedyFest, here's a sort of local tale for you – if you believe Arthur was a West Country lad. Glastonbury Tor is only a few hills away! AVALON: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/lucqk... #FolkloreThursday 📚 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👑⚔️

Oh now I get it. Dubai is Golgafrinchan Ark B.

If you were born in the UK and you live in Dubai, you should die in Dubai. That's even if there's world peace.

It's #FabFoolsFriday! Here's one of the rare attempts to tell the Rutles story on YouTube. I can't remember if I've seen it, so it might be rubbish. Have lovely days. youtu.be/_sGBFuvYRgw?... #Beatles #Rutles✌🏾🎶🃏

Paging @fabfools.bsky.social

Enjoy this video of Sir Barry Wom and Australian teacher Sir Ron Nasty performing Bricusse & Beaumont's Bygravesian ditty 'Out Of Town', alive. I dare you: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfj3... #FabFoolsFriday #Beatles #Rutles #Bonzos #Bygraves ✌🏾🎶🃏

Enjoy this video of Sir Barry Wom and Australian teacher Sir Ron Nasty performing Bricusse & Beaumont's Bygravesian ditty 'Out Of Town', alive. I dare you: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfj3... #FabFoolsFriday #Beatles #Rutles #Bonzos #Bygraves ✌🏾🎶🃏

I can never get over how much Paul Mescal looks like John Lennon.

It's P-P-P-P-PANCAKE DAY! So here's the Maid Marian clip we all love to watch on this day of the year! www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7Ed... PS Buy Fab Fools: candy-jar.co.uk/books/fabfoo...

Marking this particular #FabFoolsFriday with that time Paul McCartney showed up in Bojack Horseman: youtu.be/9julixBhk_s?... ✌🏽🎶🃏

I know Spotify is now evil, but our fab Fab Fools playlist certainly isn't! open.spotify.com/playlist/29b... MERRY #FABFOOLSFRIDAY! ✌🏽🎶🃏

Back when Kermit sounded like Kermit....

I know Spotify is now evil, but our fab Fab Fools playlist certainly isn't! open.spotify.com/playlist/29b... MERRY #FABFOOLSFRIDAY! ✌🏽🎶🃏

It's a Muppet special this #FabFoolsFriday! Here's a whole playlist of Beatles classics as performed by Henson's felt friends, long before they were sold into Disney slavery: youtube.com/playlist?lis... ✌🏽🃏🎶🥁🎸

This year will mark the 50th anniversary of the first we ever heard from a certain Ron Nasty, a sufferer of Love Songs, who started the whole Rutles legacy from a Rutland mental institution: www.dailymotion.com/video/xu9sj #FabFoolsFriday #Beatles #Rutles #MontyPython #Comedy🃏🎶✌🏽

I wish more people realised that if anyone has ever publicly admitted that they "don't like The Beatles" in pretty much any way, then you NEVER have to pay that 'person' any attention ever again, or even necessarily consider them to be human beings. That's just how it works.

Having indexed two of these – Soupy Twists! (on Fry and Laurie) and Fab Fools (on Beatles, Rutles and comedy) – I can vouch for their entertaining excellence. If you like this sort of thing too, give a follow to @jemroberts.bsky.social @fabfools.bsky.social @talesofbritain.bsky.social

If you want something to cheer up a dull January, can I suggest this fascinating read from @jemroberts.bsky.social - how the Beatles and comedy intersect, from George Martin working with the Goons to funding Monty Python films. This is great fun and an interesting new perspective on the band.

Happy #FabFoolsFriday! This is not The Rutles – this is just a tribute. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np4I... #Beatles #Comedy #Rutles🃏🎶✌🏽

Happy #FabFoolsFriday! This is not The Rutles – this is just a tribute. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np4I... #Beatles #Comedy #Rutles🃏🎶✌🏽

Do you like The Beatles? Yeah? Well, why aren't you following this account then? Liars.

Nice chat with Roger McGough here. Recently heard a bit of our audiobook, and I regret making Roger sound a bit of a flat scally – his voice is more of a Tarbuck-style mellifluous up-and-down. Sorry, Rog. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

It’s not just #FabFoolsFriday, it’s David Bowie Day – the one day between his birthday and deathday. This photo proves Paul was his favourite Beatle, but of course it’s The Rutles he’s best known for sneering at. youtu.be/ADgTb7srgcQ?... ✌🏽🎶🃏

It’s not just #FabFoolsFriday, it’s David Bowie Day – the one day between his birthday and deathday. This photo proves Paul was his favourite Beatle, but of course it’s The Rutles he’s best known for sneering at. youtu.be/ADgTb7srgcQ?... ✌🏽🎶🃏

Noisy salutes to the great Sir George Martin, the 7th Beatle and Master of Audio Comedy, on what should have been his 100th birthday! Maybe the kidnap did him no favours... www.reddit.com/r/TheBeatles...

Gear New Year and happy #FabFoolsFriday, nits! What if The Beatles had covered Queen? No, but what if they bloody well had? Then, this, probably: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo2j... ✌🏽🃏🎶

POPFAX: The 'My Sweet Lord' that George Harrison sang about was actually Quintin Hogg, Lord Hailsham. Sadly, he never got to know him after all.

Don't know why.

Now six years without Neil Innes. Lucky him, unlucky us. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkhS...

#FabFoolsFriday bsky.app/profile/fubs...

Happy Xmas Eve! As those who have ever read an actual book know, The Muppet Christmas Carol is only the 7th or 8th best adaptation of Dickens' tale. This is the day when we enjoy the best one of all: THE BEATLES CHRISTMAS CAROL! www.dailymotion.com/video/x55f6ek

"I'm about to die" – Cleese on BEATLES. youtube.com/shorts/veLNP...

Merry #FabFools Friday, nits! As it’s the last before Crimble, we have no shame in making this week a repeat – dai.ly/x55f6ek THE BEATLES CHRISTMAS CAROL is both the greatest thing made in the name of The Beatles since 1970, and the best version of the Scrooge story since 1843. Harry Crumble! ✌🏽🃏🎶🎄

Baby meat, anyone..?

Munching sandwiches, hollering carols and advertising baby meat – it's a Merry Crimble from THE BEATLES this #FabFoolsFriday! youtu.be/9QW8x9CIoIE?...

It's not #FabFoolsFriday, but it is our very pal Ron Nasty's birthday – 81 today in the not-shit universe – so here's a festive offering from Sir Neil Innes to mark the occasion. Still missing you, Neil. x youtu.be/efoit7hwXUc?... 🎄✌🏾🎶🃏🎅🏻

Merry Crimble you nits! It's the first #FabFoolsFriday of Advent – which means it is of course time to settle down to enjoy the annual Scroogey groovy tradition of... THE BEATLES CHRISTMAS CAROL! dai.ly/x55f6ek #Beatles #Comedy #Dickens #Scrooge ❄️✌🏾🎶🃏🕯️

Four Boys In The Wind: French Hard Day’s Night LP spotted in Dutch vinyl store. #Beatles #Comedy ✌🏽🃏🎶