British Comedy Guide

John Bishop (II)

  • Producer, executive producer and director

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Review: John Bishop

John Bishop is one of those blokes you could spend hours with over a few bevvies down the pub.

Gordon Barr, Newcastle Chronicle, 20th November 2014

Review: John Bishop

He warms to an audience and treats you like a trusted friend. He doesn't try and educate an like many modern comics whose shows feel closer to a sermon at times.

Dan O'Donoghue, Manchester Evening News, 15th November 2014

Five things you might not know about ... John Bishop

Comedian is heat Magazine's no. 9 weird crush of 2014 and a late comer to the circuit.

Brian Donaldson, The List, 12th November 2014

Review: John Bishop, touring

He's not a great gagsmith, but occasionally turns a nice phrase.

Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 11th November 2014

Review: John Bishop

TV funnyman John Bishop's new live show is rude. This is John Bishop for grown-ups - and it's brilliant.

Adam Aspinall, The Mirror, 5th November 2014

Review: John Bishop delivers comedy masterclass

The Scouse comedian is warm, witty, and full of life and has finally taken on the mantle of Britain's top comic, writes Adam Aspinall.

Adam Aspinall, The Mirror, 4th November 2014

John Bishop: 'You can never retire from comedy'

He's the former footballer who's gone on to become one of Britain's best-loved comedy stars. We speak to John Bishop as he heads to Cardiff.

James Rampton, Wales Online, 31st October 2014

Interview: John Bishop cares about what you wear

GQ's comedian of the year John Bishop's success emanated from his blunt, measured stand-up routines about the humdrum existence of a working-class father of three, but he has had a year that doesn't exactly scream 'every man'.

James Mullinger, GQ, 11th September 2014

John Bishops awarded Comedian of the Year at GQ Awards

John Bishop was awarded the Comedian of the Year title at the GQ Men of the Year Awards.

Georgia Morgan, Liverpool Echo, 2nd September 2014

Stewart Lee's Alternative Comedy Experience offers 25 minutes of understated joy over on Comedy Central. Now three episodes into its second series, it's a grottier, grimier Live At The Apollo, without the necessary blockbuster blandness of John Bishop or Michael McIntyre.

Lee talks to comedians about their comedy - more interesting than it sounds, because of the calibre of people involved - which is then interspersed with short excerpts from stand-up sets, filmed at Edinburgh's tiny pub-like venue The Stand, giving it a brilliantly raucous, ramshackle feel.

Tuesday's episode saw Susan Calman, Josie Long, Kevin Eldon and David O'Doherty performing, with O'Doherty - a particular delight. If you've ever wondered how someone can do witty nostalgia about long-dead technology without sounding like a Buzzfeed list, then track O'Doherty's set down as a matter of urgency.

Rebecca Nicholson, The Guardian, 30th July 2014

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