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EXCLUSIVE: Comedian Des Bishop is group to merchandise his latest special, Bridge & Tunnel, connected Hulu connected Friday, June 26.
In nan caller hour, filmed astatine nan Comedy Cellar successful New York City, Bishop embraces his soul “bridge and tunnel,” diving into nan joys of not having kids, surviving Gen X dating, increasing up Irish pinch a New Yorker’s attitude, and uncovering joke successful nan chaos of modern adulthood.
Mike Lavin directed, pinch Hannah Berner exec producing nan hour.
Bishop is simply a autochthonal New Yorker who moved from Queens to Ireland successful his mid-teens successful 1990 and now has a large assemblage there, arsenic good arsenic a burgeoning pursuing successful nan U.S. He came to Irish fame pinch TV shows The Des Bishop Work Experience (2004), wherever he lived connected minimum costs moving different jobs successful Ireland; Joy successful nan Hood, wherever he taught stand-up comedy successful disadvantaged areas of 4 awesome Irish cities; and In nan Name of nan Fada (2008, victor of nan IFTA Best TV Series Award) astir erstwhile he decided to study Irish from scratch and execute a 60-minute stand-up drama regular successful nan Irish language.
In 2010, Bishop wrote his astir individual show, My Dad Was Nearly James Bond, inspired by his begetter Mike and his test pinch terminal cancer. He won an Irish Book of nan Year Award for his memoir of nan aforesaid sanction and brought a solo show type to nan Edinburgh Fringe to wide acclaim. In 2013, Bishop went to Beijing, China to study Mandarin. He is now fluent and nan show astir his experience, Breaking China, was different awesome Edinburgh hit.
Bishop has appeared connected galore unrecorded stand-up shows including Edinburgh Comedy Festival Live (BBC), Live astatine nan Comedy Store (Comedy Central) and Australia’s Spicks and Specks (ABC). He has released six stand-up specials, including Made successful China (Universal 2015), One Day You’ll Understand (RTE 2018), and his latest, Of All People, and is besides known for nan HBO doc A Comic’s Climb.
Bishop is repped by Arsonhouse Entertainment, UTA, and Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum.
