Its not news and the source of the original article is behind a paywall but from the BBC's 10 Things We Didn't Know Last Week
2. The line often attributed to John Lennon - "Ringo isn't the best drummer in the world. He isn't even the best drummer in the Beatles" - was actually uttered by British comedian Jasper Carrott in 1983.
A little search found this from The Beatles Community
A quote from Mark Lewisohn
“The London Times newspaper quoted John Lennon ‘famously saying that Ringo wasn’t even the best drummer in the Beatles.’ John Lennon never said that, famously or otherwise, and that is ...