John O'Farrell

John O'Farrell is a British author, broadcaster and comedy scriptwriter. O’Farrell grew up in Maidenhead, Berkshire the youngest of three children, attending Courthouse Primary School and then Desborough Comprehensive. His father was a book dealer from Galway, Ireland. He had some success as a child actor, playing Christopher Robin in the West End at the age of ten, and appearing in the horror film From Beyond the Grave with Diana Dors and Donald Pleasence. O’Farrell went on to study English and Drama at Exeter University. O'Farrell moved to London in 1985, winning a talent... competition at Jongleurs, Battersea, but soon gave up stand up comedy in favour of comedy writing. After turning up at the open meetings for Radio 4’s Week Ending he teamed up with Mark Burton and the writing partnership got their first commission from Harry Thompson . The duo won the BBC Light Entertainment Contract Award, and contributed to a number of radio series, including Little Blighty on the Down, McKay the New and with Pete Sinclair, A Look Back at the Nineties and Look Back at the Future in which O’Farrell also performed.
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