John O’Farrell (book) is one of the United Kingdom's best known comic authors and script writers. His best-selling novels include The Best a Man Can Get, May Contain Nuts and The Man Who Forgot His Wife. His non-fiction works include An Utterly Impartial History of Britain, the political memoir Things Can Only Get Better, plus three collections of his satirical columns for The Guardian newspaper. O'Farrell's books have been translated into 30 languages and adapted for BBC radio and television. He is a winner of the British Comedy Award, was previously a writer (and later panelist) on BBC's Have I Got News For You, and was lead writer on 10 seasons of ITV's Spitting Image. He was one of three screenwriters for Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, the sequel to Chicken Run, and has adapted one of his own novels for Sony International Pictures. His most recent Broadway show was Mrs. Doubtfire (book).