{"id":1824,"date":"2008-11-25T16:06:03","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T21:06:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-11-25T16:06:03","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T16:06:03","slug":"did-john-ever-have-a-laugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/did-john-ever-have-a-laugh\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Post-Beatles John Ever Have a Laugh at His Beatle Self?"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YViPPlvR1kQ?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>This question might be answered sooner than I would hope, exposing an embarrassing oversight by my rock nerd powers, but I&#8217;ve been thinking about it for a few days and need your help, Townspeople!<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nIn the years following the breakup of The Beatles, <strong>Paul<\/strong>, <strong>George<\/strong>, and <strong>Ringo<\/strong> had their moments poking fun at their time as Beatles. I think we&#8217;d agree that the greatest and funniest example of this is George&#8217;s role as a producer and actor in <strong>The Rutles<\/strong> documentary. <em>How big of him to have a laugh at his own band&#8217;s mighty legacy and help foot the bills!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t find the clip posted anywhere, but loveable Ringo appeared in a <a href=\"http:\/\/snltranscripts.jt.org\/84\/84hauction.phtml\" target=\"_blank\">skit on <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em>, poking fun at himself for being the least valuable of items at an auction of Beatles memorabilia.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even Paul, the most self-absorbed and naturally least-funny Beatle, had a number of giggles in celebration of Beatle Paul. The most significant example of Paul laughing at himself may be that brilliant SNL bit, where <strong>Chris Farley<\/strong> as Beatles Fanboy nervously interviews the bemused legend. Of course, SNL&#8217;s team of Web Wipers has wiped clean the clip I wanted to show, but there was Paul&#8217;s earlier appearance as 1963 Paul in the video for &#8220;Coming Up.&#8221;<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DO6w9T1YzgE?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Try as I may, the one former Beatle I can&#8217;t recall poking fun at his Beatle self in public is John&#8230;<em>John<\/em>, the self-aware, self-depreacating, caustic, cut-up extraordinaire! Am I missing something, or was John actually the biggest tight-ass among his bandmates when it came to his own legacy as a member of The Beatles?<\/p>\n<p>For my own rock nerd credibility, I hope you&#8217;re as stumped as I am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This question might be answered sooner than I would hope, exposing an embarrassing oversight by my rock nerd powers, but I&#8217;ve been thinking about it for a few days and need your help, Townspeople!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}