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...

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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 ✌🏽🃏🎶

24 years as Mayor of Nirvana-on-Heaven for George Harrison MBE. This is just a tribute: GIVE ME LOVE on.soundcloud.com/NtkuSM9p2Upc...

If you've ever enjoyed any of my audiobooks, can you let the world know with a short review, please? Too many psychos leaving their own ravings on them... www.audible.co.uk/search?searc...

Surely all Beatle freaks will have agreed by now that Anthology 4 is a puzzling disappointment of truly surreal proportions. Yet, unlike any other band, the best bits are still the ones that make you laugh out loud. Like this one: #FabFoolsFriday youtube.com/playlist?lis... ✌🏽🎶🃏

Ernie Wise should be 100 today! Happy would-be 100th to the greatest little stooge in town. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTDe...

The Beatles Anthology returns this #FabFoolsFriday! We all know the 4th record misses all the good stuff in the archives, but never mind – nothing will ever beat this, from the first album. All power to yer National Health eyeball. Altogether now, "WHEN THE STAAAARS…" youtu.be/KKDmJqFEv7s?... ✌🏽🃏🎶🥁🎸

Nobody's ever got anywhere near the deep importance of the relationship between Paul & George in The Beatles. They were the first Beatles to meet – *they* essentially created the spark for the band on the bus together. And I don't think G ever quite forgave P for then fawning over big boy John.

Happy #FabFoolsFriday! Here's Ringo wrestling with IT'S man Michael Palin on Monty Python's Flying Circus: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F67e... Not enough? Okay, here's Lulu reacting to being reminded of it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF8M... You're welcome. ✌🏾🎶🃏

Scientists have found a species of beetle which gathers moss. Which proves definitively that beetles are better than rolling stones.

In which Paul bamboozles Speed from Citizen Smith: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL4w...

Another funny one on the Personal Beatles podcast! It's a long time since Kevin Eldon and I had our go, but you must take the time to hear @dankackroyd.bsky.social's Beatley musings this #FabFoolsFriday.... shows.acast.com/personalbeat... #Beatles #Comedy #Rutles ✌🏾🎶🃏

Another funny one on the Personal Beatles podcast! It's a long time since Kevin Eldon and I had our go, but you must take the time to hear @dankackroyd.bsky.social's Beatley musings this #FabFoolsFriday.... shows.acast.com/personalbeat... #Beatles #Comedy #Rutles ✌🏾🎶🃏

It's Hallowe'en, Samhain and #FabFoolsFriday all at once! So here's one of Peter Serafinowicz's murky and dark interpretations of McCartney classics... 'I'll Kill': www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gsH... #Beatles #Comedy #Rutles ✌🏾🎶🃏🎃

HELL IS MURKY this #FolkloreThursday, as Brother Bernard takes you on a tour of the Highlands, retelling the legend of his old mate MACBETH and the WITCHES! Lay on… jemroberts.com/2025/10/30/m... youtu.be/BfS9Yd0HjV4 #Halloween #Samhain #Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👑⚔️🧙🏼‍♀️🧙🏼‍♀️🧙🏼‍♀️

Happy #FabFoolsFriday, kids! Here's our Paul with a dirty joke for yez, Tiktokkers: www.tiktok.com/@oobujoobu/v... #Beatles #Comedy #Rutles ✌🏾🎶🃏

Happy #FabFoolsFriday, kids! Here's our Paul with a dirty joke for yez, Tiktokkers: www.tiktok.com/@oobujoobu/v... #Beatles #Comedy #Rutles ✌🏾🎶🃏

The fact that we’re living in the timeline in which we can all watch a vid fresh from Paul McCartney’s phone of him kicking back, by a river, just after a J, just hits me as so beautiful I could weep laughs.

Ladies and gentleladies, this #FabFoolsFriday we present Mr Hugh Laurie with Sir Stephen Fry giving us their extremely odd rendition of The Beatles' 'Hey Jude'. Messrs Fry & Laurie, 'Hey Jude' – thank you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy_n... #SoupyTwists 🍸🍸✌🏾🎶🃏

Ladies and gentleladies, this #FabFoolsFriday we present Mr Hugh Laurie with Sir Stephen Fry giving us their extremely odd rendition of The Beatles' 'Hey Jude'. Messrs Fry & Laurie, 'Hey Jude' – thank you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy_n... #SoupyTwists 🍸🍸✌🏾🎶🃏

Dump Together? An angle The Beatles never thought of for the Abbey Road cover from a shop window in Bilbao, Spain.

Diane in Shoot The Moon. Singing Beatles in the bath and crying. Hands up who’s never done that

On this #FabFOolsFriday, the day after what should have been Ron Nasty's 85th, here's the great man's poppycock-eyed swan song, The Imitation Song. Keep on Rutling, guys. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J353... ✌🏾🎶🃏

Happy Un-85th, Dr Winston O'Boogie, Poet: youtu.be/eQx7BWRNuEM #JohnLennon

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?... ✌🏻🃏🎶

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...