Des Bishop
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287 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2024
last heard 3 Jun
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Yeah, so the thing about John Bishop is he's one of the biggest comedians in the UK. And when I say that, I think people don't understand the magnitude of it. He is 100% an arena comic. And, you know, the UK, small landmass, but, you know, 70 million people, not like a small country. And he's doing these, you know, these cities all over the UK, and he's doing multiple nights in arenas.
I mean, he is a comparative guy. I mean... In the 2000s, I guess a comparative guy would be like Chris Rock or Bill Burr of the UK. And also in Ireland. I broke out in Ireland before him, but then he actually... He's huge in Ireland too. So he's really like Ireland and the UK, one of the biggest comics. But lately... He has had an itch to do more stuff in the States. To come over to the States.
Yeah. And he's been recording stuff in the States and he's really fascinated by the challenge to him of like leaving essentially like stardom to anonymity, which was part of his motivation for starting the pod because he just basically wants to- Cross over. Yeah. And he wants to have as much stuff out there about who he is, you know?
Oh, right. Okay.
We all go back, actually. We're all the same vintage. John is older, but only because he started comedy very late. He didn't start comedy until he was 36. Russell and I would have started at, like, a similar age. So, like... We go back to like playing football, soccer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Me, Russell Howard, John Bishop, Daniel Kitson, John Oliver.
Like all of us. Oh, the Flight of the Conchords. Like Edinburgh 2002, like our football and like tip rugby matches were like... John Oliver, you know, Daniel Kitson, John Bishop, me. Who else? Oh, guys, other guys you wouldn't know, like Josh Whitacombe and Adam Hills.
Yeah, just like guys that just like became huge. And Russell, like Russell has been huge in the UK for years. Russell and John are kind of similar in that way, you know? Yeah.
So, so, so is this, is this the popularity of UK acts in the States or just the popularity of UK acts in general?
Yeah, but YouGov is a polling, it's a polling thing, right? Yeah, it's just a polling thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Are you guys in the room together? No, only that first one, because he was in New York and I was in New York. But now I left to Ireland, actually, the next day. And then he went back to the UK the day after. So we're just recording remote. So we're stuck with the remote stuff for now. But we'll try to get together when we can. Yeah.
But he also wanted the other useful nature of the word exchange, because we were just looking for like a bishop name, but he wanted it to be like cross-cultural. Like he wanted that to be part of it. He wanted that transatlantic bridge. Yes. I like it. Yeah, but you know, it can be hard too, because like...
I think it will be harder for us to truly get the Americans to plug in because the British people love chatting about America. Like they love chatting about American politics. And it's not that Americans don't like chatting about British politics. They just don't know. We don't know. We don't know. We're confused. We don't know.
On one side, you're talking about something everyone has an opinion on. On the other side, it's like, let's educate America about Britain. So we'll see. We'll see if we can manage to bridge, to make that bridge.
No, I literally, I have actually been in the States until last Tuesday. So I did not do, I was not one of the only people that said, if Trump gets elected, I'll go. Because number one, I didn't say that. And number two, nobody ever actually goes except for Ellen DeGeneres. Yeah. Who was, let's face it, she was fleeing like so much stuff, you know? She's getting hatred from both sides.
So anyway, no, I just, I had this tour planned for quite a while. I'm here for seven weeks now, but no, I have been in the States. I just, I went into a little bit of a glut of posting just because like- I was touring, doing shows on the road, but I just wasn't recording them.
Yeah.
Well, no, it's not so much that... Honestly, it's getting them up on Instagram isn't my problem. The problem is just getting them recorded. And sometimes I'm proactive. I had some shows before Christmas where I was proactive. I got some content. But then after Christmas, literally, I was just being a bit lazy with some of my... What do you guys do for Christmas?
Well, hey... Number one benefit of having two dead parents is that you don't have any stress about where to go for Christmas. Fair enough. So it's not a thing. The main thing is Hannah's half Italian. Her mother's side is Italian. So they do the Christmas Eve. Yes. You know, the seven fishes or whatever, which is not actually an Italian thing. It's an Italian American thing. Yeah.
What the fuck is the seven fishes? Oh, you don't know about the seven fishes? I think it might even be like a New York thing.
Because I grew up with all these Italians.
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