Show 332. John O'Farrell
The Political Party
The Political Party
4.8 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
The author of 'Things Can Only Get Better' gives his take on modern politics, the state of the Labour Party and what it's like making comedy now compared to when he started.
John is a successful author, west end playwright and satirist, working on shows like Spitting Image and Have I Got News For You. He also stood for Parliament twice.
This is a great chat about politics and comedy from someone who's been on both sides of the fence.
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| 0:26.8 | UK. Hello and welcome to the political party. |
| 0:33.3 | Today's guest is John O'P. Hello and |
| 0:42.8 | welcome to the political party today's guest is John O'Farrell and what a |
| 0:46.0 | phenomenal career John O'Farrell has had and continues to have and it's |
| 0:50.3 | taking him in all different directions. He authored a wonderful book, |
| 0:53.7 | things can only get better, which I got the year it came out and I've read multiple times. |
| 0:58.6 | If you're a labor person and you haven't read it, what are you mucking about it? |
| 1:04.8 | But he's written so many great books. He's written Western musicals. He stood for Parliament twice. He's done so many |
| 1:09.5 | fantastic and fascinating things. He has a new book out called Family Politics which |
| 1:13.0 | you talk about, but a lot of the threads in his life, it feels like culminate |
| 1:17.8 | around that book and we talk about that but just about writing topical comedy in |
| 1:21.1 | general, writing comedy in 2024, being an author, so many different |
| 1:25.4 | things but his relationship with the Labour Party is such a big thing that runs |
| 1:30.4 | through this interview and his analysis of where the Labour Party is |
| 1:34.3 | and of various different leaders is great and he's got as you would imagine some |
| 1:38.7 | fantastic stories. So I've put a link to family politics, his new book so you can click on it and buy it and please enjoy John O'Faro. |
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