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Just seen a YouTuber say he ‘really hopes’ Carnival of Light isn’t on Anthology 4 because ‘it’s probably gonna be crap’.

I’m 51 and I don’t think I was either, to be fair.

I don’t think I’ve ever worked anywhere where this kind of bantz would get a laugh.

This is worse than Scrappy-Doo.

The Bangles’s Walk Like an Egyptian owes a big debt to Prefab Sprout’s Faron Young doesn’t it?

Overheard: ‘Seriously Geoff, I don’t want any more surprises in the garden.’

I see the new Mitchell and Webb series is doing jokes about Prince Andrew sweating.

No Carnival of Light, but THANK GOD we finally get to hear the first take of Matchbox.

I see David Mitchell hasn’t shaved off his beard for any of the new sketches. Like he’s Kenny Everett.

Why do anti-Carnival of Light men persist in this straw man fallacy that the reason Beatles fans want it released is because they think it’s an amazing piece of music? No. Its amazingness is irrelevant. We want it released because it’s Carnival of fucking Light.

‘Lucy Connolly?’ ‘No, semi-carnally.’ ‘Oh.’

YOU CAN STILL GET ALL THREE ANTHOLOGY CDs FOR ABOUT £15 EACH THE FOURTH VOLUME WILL BE ON STREAMING WHY OH WHY BEATLES FANS ARE YOU ORDERING THIS £100 SET? EVEN THE BOX ISN’T THAT NICE

There’s a point on the Victoria line, somewhere between King’s Cross and Highbury and Islington, where the phone signal suddenly cuts off. The sight is so satisfying. This is what it was like in the 90s, TikTok Face. Should have brought a crossword shouldn’t you?

Anyone else been digging this new Blu-ray restoration from Severin Films? It’s not a great film, but hats off to them for finally getting a decent transfer out there after all these years - as I understand it, it’s sourced from the only surviving print.

‘Apparently the real reason she pleaded guilty is because…I mean, I don’t actually *know*, but this is what I reckon…’

Beatles scholars, do you think you will hear Carnival of Light before you cork it?

Private Eye readers giggling at this, like they’ve ever worked a customer service role in their lives.