'Provided I can still pay for holidays.' Bishop has never made a study of comedy. So everyone's sitting at tables having a drink, then halfway through the night I slipped out and came on stage. But because of where I come from, I always thought that we were doing all right. 'I joined because it's close to where we live, but I've been a member now for nine months, and so far I've played seven holes, with two of my lads,' he laughs.
One of them had had a baby, and they had all planned to go out and celebrate. 'They do your head in, don't they?' As men, we like to plan. He didn't even tell his friends until he had been doing it more than two years. 'We've had caravan holidays, we've had times where we've been struggling. Bishop agrees. John Bishop is a lovely guy, but if you've been to one of his shows or seen him on television, you'll know that already.
He started to explore it and change it. 'It's not like I left the job and had a DVD contract or a telly series. Add message | Report | See all. 'If you say something and everyone laughs at it there is an addictive element to it, you want to hear that sound again. 'Here's the red line, and it's a little bit bigger than it was last time, so hooray!' Depends on the accent, personally I don't much like a Welsh accent, and I loathe a Liverpudlian one. In October 2000, looking for a way to occupy the time, he came upon the Frog and Bucket comedy club in Manchester and thought it might be a good place to sit and drink alone. It was inspiring and moving to watch, and raised £3.4 million for good causes, but with David Walliams making himself ill swimming the Thames and Eddie Izzard apparently planning a new fund-raising feat to top his incredible 2009 achievement of 43 marathons in 52 days, you also wonder whether this comedic one-upmanship will end with a permanent injury that won't be funny at all. The accent helps pay the bills!!!!
He moved to the US in 1994 and toured as a musician, meeting famous people and his wife who he is still very much in love with to this day. A smart, likeable man with a ready laugh and a strong Scouse accent, he grew up on a council estate in Runcorn dreaming of playing football for Liverpool. He moved to the US in 1994 and toured as a musician, meeting famous people and his wife who he is still very much in love with to this day.Gary eventually gave up music and got into construction.
But he persisted, booking his own tours, and the following year, he did a little better at the festival. That's how I told them I did stand-up.'
'I was doing a master's degree in business, I was progressing through the corporate world, I was doing everything you're supposed to do, and I was developing a little line on my forehead I didn't even know I had,' he says. He is from a solidly working-class family. There's a massive degree of pressure.' Our mission is to help your company succeed. They haven't failed! I had two weeks of gigs in the diary, and that was it. LegoDragon Sat 07-Sep-13 15:23:58. He was born in Liverpool moved to Runcorn early on and has lived in Greater Manchester for a long time. So he settled for a season ticket and a job in sales, and is still somewhat surprised to have found fame in middle age as a comedian: 'It just wasn't on the radar.' 'But they're mostly OK with it,' he shrugs. It was an open-mic night, and when he was told he could get in for free if he had a go, he put his name down. Any parent can script the short conversation that follows, which starts with 'Common sense might suggest…' and ends with an indignant, 'Well I'm quite busy myself, actually.' He had a good job as a sales director in a pharmaceuticals firm, but he wasn't happy. When Bishop left school at 16 and got a job in the mail room at ICI, they were thrilled, and when he subsequently decided to go back to school a term late and do his A-levels, they tried hard to talk him out of it. He played semi-professionally for a while, but says he wasn't good enough to go further. With validated, reliable employee/candidate assessments, we help companies select, manage, motivate and retain their top talent. Bishop: 'As long as I'm still on a stage, then I'm winning'Bishop: 'If I hadn't been lucky enough to have met the person I want to be with, and have kids, I would regard most things as pointless' As a family we speak about it openly, how you've got to make sure your friends are your friends.' They were all hugging, and I'm thinking, "Don't ever put a camera in our house, there'd be none of that going on!" He had paid his way through college by playing football semi-professionally for Southport FC and coaching in America every summer, but he still longed to see more of the world, so ended up quitting his job after 18 months, flying off to Australia for two weeks, and – extraordinarily – coming back overland, on a bicycle. It took him nine months to pedal home, and to decide that marriage might be the right thing after all. ' Just as we are settling down to talk, his mobile rings. It's something he captures brilliantly in his observational comedy: the way you can love your offspring utterly, while being so frustrated with their behaviour you could scream – or go on stage in front of thousands and take the mickey. Even his children donated money. Gary eventually gave up music and got into construction. 'And I said, "Whoa! ' Bishop is adamant that he won't do anything like it again, though he hopes to stay involved with Sport Relief's work on some level. He grimaces, but answers because it is one of his three teenage sons. Somebody out of a 1960s band was on at the Stockport Plaza, and he said, "He used to be massive, and look at him now." 'It felt all-consuming, and without realising it, that was all I was thinking about,' he says. That's the way I see it.' He later appeared in the E4 teen drama Skins (seasons 3 and 4) and in the Ken Loach movie Route Irish.He also does stand-up comedy.In 2004, he won the best North West stand-up comedian award. Now he has his own coaching business, his book, and a series of courses.If you’re enjoying the show, we encourage you to leave an ==>NEW! He cycled from Paris to Calais, got only a couple of hours' sleep before rowing across the Channel the following morning, then ran three consecutive marathons in three days from Dover to London.