History Funny / TheBeatles

* In the video for "Ticket To Ride", John messes up his lip-sync twice because he can't remember which verse ends with a "yeah!" The first time he mouths a word that doesn't exist, and the second time he misses it entirely, which makes him laugh and yell "yeah" completely out of time, which of course is completely muted by the overdub. This messes up George's lip-sync for his closeup shot to the point it almost looks like he's singing a different song. And then we have the FunnyBackgroundEvent of Ringo not putting any effort into miming playing his drums, to the point that it looks like he's apathetically tossing a salad with his drumsticks.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4q48Foltjs This recording session for "Think For Yourself"]]. ''"[[Series/Stingray1964 Mariiiina, Aquamariiiiina]], How come you fuck up everything that you dooooo?"''

* Judging from the surviving recording, they were in a ''very'' good mood for what ended up being their final concert at Candlestick Park in 1966, making all kinds of silly comments in the song introductions:

* When the Beatles (minus Ringo, who hadn't joined yet) first auditioned for George Martin, he and two other Creator/ParlophoneRecords producers felt they weren't good enough. The other two producers were blunt about it. Martin, trying to be nice, asked the boys, "Is there anything you don't like?", meaning the recording session. George quipped, "Well, I don't like your tie." [[ActuallyPrettyFunny Martin cracked up]]. Encouraged, the Beatles just started riffing off each other for several minutes straight: they got the three producers laughing so hard they were in ''tears''. [[ForegoneConclusion And that, boys and girls, is how the Beatles got their first record deal.]]

** A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7yteJR0GLw Rocky Raccoon outtake]] is hilarious for a number of reasons, chief among them the fact that Paul accidentally says 'sminking'.

* "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?" from ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum'', arguably the dirtiest and simultaneously funniest thing Paul ever did during his time with the Beatles.

** "Happiness is a Warm Gun"

** "I Should Have Known Better"

* In the ''Music/TheBeatlesAnthology'' outtake of "I'm Down", Paul criticizes his performance as "plastic soul". And it wasn't half bad. Allegedly, it was what Paul heard black musicians call [[Music/TheRollingStones Mick Jagger's]] early British blues style at the time. The phrase reportedly led to the band calling their next studio album ''Music/RubberSoul''.

---> '''Ringo:''' "Paul's broken a glass, broken a glass, Paul's broken a glass, a glass, a glass he's broke today"

---> '''Paul:''' "George, what did it sound like with the bass doing a funny thing? Did it sound any good or did it sound just a lovely crap?"

* When the Beatles (minus Ringo, who hadn't joined yet) first auditioned for George Martin, he and two other Creator/ParlophoneRecords producers felt they weren't good enough. The other two producers were blunt about it. Martin, trying to be nice, asked the boys, "Is there anything you don't like?", meaning the recording session. George quipped, "Well, I don't like your tie." Martin cracked up. Encouraged, the Beatles just started riffing off each other for several minutes straight: they got the three producers laughing so hard they were in ''tears''. [[ForegoneConclusion And that, boys and girls, is how the Beatles got their first record deal.]]

-He reversed at speed until we heard a sickening crunch from the rear. Brian grimaced and turned the radio up a notch. We lurched forward and gave the bread van in front a friendly nudge. By then, the curb was just about within walking distance so I took the opportunity to abandon ship before Brian's manoeuvring did anyone any lasting damage.

--> "Brian announced we were going for something to eat and eventually we spotted a restaurant. Fortunately, there was a parking space just outside which would have happily accommodated an ocean-going liner. But this still represented a considerable challenge to Brian.
--> He reversed at speed until we heard a sickening crunch from the rear. Brian grimaced and turned the radio up a notch. We lurched forward and gave the bread van in front a friendly nudge. By then, the curb was just about within walking distance so I took the opportunity to abandon ship before Brian's manoeuvring did anyone any lasting damage.
--> As I got out, I saw the figure of a very large policeman looming over me. At first, I thought from the tears in his eyes that he was upset about something. Then I noted from the heaving of the shoulders and the spluttering sounds that he was laughing.
--> When Brian got out with as much dignity as he could muster, the policeman was in such a state of hysteria he couldn't find the breath to tick him off."

* As much of a {{Tearjerker}} as “Yesterday” is, it becomes hilarious when you find out Paul was desperate to hold on to the melody after it came to him in a dream, so he hastily scribbled out some lyrics about scrambled eggs that filled the meter.

* In the video for "Ticket To Ride", John messes up his lip-sync twice because he can't remember which verse ends with a "yeah!". The first time he mouths a word that doesn't exist, and the second time he misses it entirely, which makes him laugh and yell "yeah" completely out of time, which of course is completely muted by the overdub. This messes up George's lip-sync for his closeup shot to the point it almost looks like he's singing a different song. And then we have the FunnyBackgroundEvent of Ringo not putting any effort into miming playing his drums, to the point that it looks like he's apathetically tossing a salad with his drumsticks.

* Brian Epstein's biography, A Cellarful of Noise, gives us this gem regarding how stacked the odds were against the Beatles becoming as big a sensation in America as they did: "Always America seemed too big, too vast, too remote and too American."

--> '''John''': Paul hit a clunker on the piano and said a naughty word. [...] Most people won't ever spot it ... but ''we'll'' know it's there.