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 Post subject: John Bishop
PostPosted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 12:51 pm 
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Seems to be all over the place lately - Mock the Week, Have I Got News, Something For The Weekend etc, etc and the Grauniad carried an ad for ahis UK-wide tour which seems to take up the entireity of 2010.

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His USP seems to be that
1. He is a Scouser with a right broad Scouse accent and
2. He used to have a proper job as a salesman for a pharmaceutical company.
3. Erm, that's it.

However, his material seems to be about as funny as Michael McIntyre's.

How do we explain this?

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 Post subject: Re: John Bishop
PostPosted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 1:05 pm 
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Is he related to Bez off of the Happy Mondays?

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 Post subject: Re: John Bishop
PostPosted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 2:20 pm 
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Now I would definitely pay to see Bez doing stand-up comedy.


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 Post subject: Re: John Bishop
PostPosted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 3:34 pm 
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For me, I find his "punchlines" (or payoffs I think gag punchlines are called) a bit underwhelming. His build ups can be good but then the payoffs are a bit weak.


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 Post subject: Re: John Bishop
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Heard him on the radio yesterday pointing out that Welsh road signs are 'dyslexic'. There's a joke to be made there somewhere, I can see that, because Welsh and English phonics are so different and the juxtaposition of the two has potential. But just to go for the easy 'dyslexia' line is plain lazy and disrespectful to the members of your audience who have heard every generation of comedian since the fucking 'sixties make the same joke. Jesus, it's almost as if he wants to be called the new Jimmy fucking Tarbuck.


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 Post subject: Re: John Bishop
PostPosted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 3:50 pm 
he even does the jokes about how crap it is to be married for a long time

he's not even a scouser he's from runcorn


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 Post subject: Re: John Bishop
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As I said on January 29th:

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In fact, let's chuck into the mix John Bishop. His act consists of going on about the fact that he's from Liverpool, punctuated by that bloody repetition thing where he really hammers home the point about 3 times, before making yet another hackneyed joke about shellsuits. He seems to have been adopted by the TV comedy circuit as a resident northerner, yet as far as I can see, he's just basically doing the sort of act that Geoff Tipps tried in The League of Gentlemen and got skewered for.

That said, the joke he made about fat kids and paedophiles on Mock the Week was very funny...

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 Post subject: Re: John Bishop
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Ahh, yes, I remember that now, Andy. Sorry for making you have to repeat yourself.

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 Post subject: Re: John Bishop
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I've seen him in clubs a couple of times, and he's very good. I'm not sure he's suited to panel games, but get him in a small club with a couple of audience members he can bounce off and he's very, very funny indeed.

He won Manchester's City Life Comedian of the Year on something like his fourth gig, back when that award was pretty much a ticket to a professional career, as opposed to being roughly equivalent to "least awful open spot on the local circuit".


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his "world cup diary" is on ITV4 at the moment in the background and i'm finding it really, really lazy and cliched.

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 Post subject: Re: John Bishop
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He was on "Live at The Apollo" (which thankfully now seems to have lost the appalling MacIntyre) last night. Whadday know - he did the dyslexia/Welsh road sign joke again and loads of jokes about being married. He did have some funny moments, though.

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 Post subject: Re: John Bishop
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Did he? Sorry I must have missed those. Mind you I did sneeze at one point, perhaps it happened then.

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 Post subject: Re: John Bishop
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Adam wrote:
I've seen him in clubs a couple of times, and he's very good. I'm not sure he's suited to panel games, but get him in a small club with a couple of audience members he can bounce off and he's very, very funny indeed.

He won Manchester's City Life Comedian of the Year on something like his fourth gig, back when that award was pretty much a ticket to a professional career, as opposed to being roughly equivalent to "least awful open spot on the local circuit".


I'm reminded of that cartoonist The Mirror hired just because the royals allegedly bought an original of his featuring the Queen Mother drop-kicking Princess Diana - only to give him their main political cartoon slot, his own strip and a huge fanfare about having secured him, and find out the hard way that he couldn't have carried a joke in a bucket.

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 Post subject: Re: John Bishop
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I can't work out the appeal of this bloke either. I caught him on Top Gear. He had a funny, Liverpudlian way of speaking which made me warm to him. But he didn't seem to get out any actual jokes.

He also turned up in this awful Liverpool bollocks:

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/opinion ... 95585.html

Though he isn't as bad as the cunt (Ian McCulloch?) who reckons supporting a team in debt is like having your family being raped.


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 Post subject: Re: John Bishop
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I can't work out the appeal of this bloke either. I caught him on Top Gear. He had a funny, Liverpudlian way of speaking which made me warm to him. But he didn't seem to get out any actual jokes.

He also turned up in this awful Liverpool bollocks:

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/opinion ... 95585.html

Though he isn't as bad as the cunt (Ian McCulloch?) who reckons supporting a team in debt is like having your family being raped.


It wasn't just the debt it was the fact that club came 2nd and then for 6 consecutive transfer windows posted a figure in the black by the time Bentiez was banging on about netspend because it was true. His buying may have been poor at times but he was restricted by money. It's a crass terminology but It's more to do with the fact they were taking the money out to service debts, debts that did not hang over the club and were being totally serviced by our profits for long periods.

And it wasn't just Liverpool they buggered, they led the Texas Rangers to file for Bankruptcy and a Brazilian Club got relegated, hopefully that fates been avoided by certain men at Liverpool who I will always be grateful to. But Football is an escapism and it does tear at your heart, I can only feel for the teams who have suffered liquidation, I have little time for Manchester United but I'd hate for them to go down the route we went down.


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