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...

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

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...

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?... 🎶🃏✌🏽

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?... 🎶🃏✌🏽

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 🎶🃏✌🏽

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...

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 🎶🃏✌🏽

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

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 #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.)

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. ✌🏽🃏🎶🏰⚔️❤️

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. ✌🏽🃏🎶🏰⚔️❤️

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?... 🦭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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?... ✌🏾🎶🃏

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 #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?

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?

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

#Beatles #Rutles #Comedy

Been on the beach this #FabFoolsFriday. Somerset, not the Cast Iron Shore. #Beatles #Comedy #Rutles #Ouch ✌🏽🃏🎶 youtu.be/iVFRgoQe86U?...

Been on the beach this #FabFoolsFriday. Somerset, not the Cast Iron Shore. #Beatles #Comedy #Rutles #Ouch ✌🏽🃏🎶 youtu.be/iVFRgoQe86U?...

Nasty didn't just say The Rutles were 'Bigger than Rod', by the way. He said "We're bigger than Rod Stewart, who's a stupid laughable cunt with shit hair."

Larky #FabFoolsFriday to all who celebrate! This week: John Winston Ono Lennon sort of invents the Kenny Everett Video Show, with his drag Queen advert for Walls & Bridges, 1973: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx-D... 🎶🃏✌🏽

Imagine if Fab Fools had been given even 10% of the publicity that the current season's utterly shite Beatles cash-in books are enjoying…

#JohnLennon #JesusChrist

This #FabFoolsFriday morning my not-quite-3-year-old received this Yellow Submarine toy, and began requesting more info on it, which led to… ALL TOGETHER NOW: youtu.be/IZrmKtCKHAU Have you ever really listened to John's harmonica on this? It's glorious. #Beatles #comedy✌🏾🎵🃏

Frankly, if it was the Blue Meanies retaliating against Israel's unprovoked attacks, all good people would be cheering on the Dreadful Flying Glove and the Apple Bonkers.

This #FabFoolsFriday we pay solemn tribute to the genius Bernard Woolley of Dirk's favourite band, La Garçons de la Plage. There would surely have been no RUT SOUNDS without him, especially the classic ballad 'Fucked If I Know'. youtu.be/f66pOjqkawU ✌🏽🎵🃏 🏄

This so-so dawb is genuinely not worth £12. £11:50, maybe. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

Gear #FabFoolsFriday to all! It's my birthday too, yeah! So let's keep it simple; here's a snatch from the Hard Day's Night audiobook that wasn't… www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh88... #Beatles #Comedy #Rutles 🎶🃏✌🏾

This #FabFoolsFriday, I'm celebrating the launch of my official Fry & Laurie book SOUPY TWISTS on Audible! www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FB9KJN6... To keep things on topic, here's Hugh and Sir Stephen duetting oddly on HEY JUDE! www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy_n... #Beatles #StephenFry #HughLaurie 🍸🃏✌🏾🎶🍸

This #FabFoolsFriday, I'm celebrating the launch of my official Fry & Laurie book SOUPY TWISTS on Audible! www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FB9KJN6... To keep things on topic, here's Hugh and Sir Stephen duetting oddly on HEY JUDE! www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy_n... #Beatles #StephenFry #HughLaurie 🍸🃏✌🏾🎶🍸

Hello, our very pals! The book may have hit UK shops a few years ago, but we know you've been very prepared for this eventuality – This is now the home of everywhere Beatles & Comedy intersect, on Bluesky! BOOK: candy-jar.co.uk/books/fabfoo... AUDIBLE: www.audible.co.uk/pd/Fab-Fools... ✌🏾🎶🃏

Kinky #FabFoolsFriday to all! Here's the Frankie Howerd scene from The Beatles' movie HELP! – in novelisation audiobook form! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll39... Such a shame Candy Jar never re-released the Beatle film tie-ins, I'd have loved to have recorded the whole audiobook! 🃏✌🏾🎶

Kinky #FabFoolsFriday to all! Here's the Frankie Howerd scene from The Beatles' movie HELP! – in novelisation audiobook form! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll39... Such a shame Candy Jar never re-released the Beatle film tie-ins, I'd have loved to have recorded the whole audiobook! 🃏✌🏾🎶

To have Ringo Starr on Monty Python is one thing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F67e... But to have Lulu REACTING to Ringo Starr on Monty Python, that's real #FabFoolsFriday quality: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF8M... 🃏✌🏾🎶

It will never stop being weird that they cast an actor who looks more like John Lennon than almost any other actor to play John Lennon, as Paul McCartney.

... And here's a whole compilation of Muppet Beatle covers! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGTB...

This #FabFoolsFriday, let's look at The Beatles' connections with The Muppets. Jim Henson wanted to create Beatle puppets for this Ed Sullivan show spot, but had to settle for a puppet Octopus instead... www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4KU... 🎶✌🏾🃏