eightball.ie proudly presents Des Bishop

Tuesday, March 04
University of Limerick

www.desbishop.com

Des Bishop was born in New York, but raised in County Wexford, and forged his stand-up career in Ireland, running the International Comedy Club in Dublin for several years. Des has worked as a comic in Ireland since the late 1990s, when he began hosting shows at the International Comedy Cellar - a venue set up by Irish comics such as Ardal O’Hanlon, Kevin Gildea and Barry Murphy. It was here that Bishop honed his act.

His first Edinburgh show was Comic Warfare, in 2002, which received a Tap Water award, the anti-corporate answer to the Perrier. Bishop first reached a TV audience in early 2000, after appearing on Don’t Feed the Gondolas, a news based topical TV show.

He later had to pull out of this show due to personal reasons. Around this time, Bishop was diagnosed with testicular cancer - rather than shy away from this subject, Des went on to turn his experiences into comedy material.

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