Bishop set to for Ennis sermon

AFTER time out touring Australia, Canada and the US, Des Bishop returns to tour Ireland this December, with a deeply personal tale of his father who has been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. The comedian will perform in Glór on December 17 and 18.
Inspired by his father’s illness, the impact it has had on his family and their sense of humour in dealing with it, Des’ latest internationally acclaimed stand up show My Dad was Nearly James Bond tells of a remarkable life tinged with regret.
Of his father, Bishop says, “Before I was born, my father had another life.  As a boy, I thought it was the coolest thing ever that my father was a model and appeared as a blind pilot in Day of the Triffids and had one line in Zulu. His biggest claim was that he was very close to getting the role of James Bond. George Lazenby got the part and we never watched James Bond in our house as it reminded my father of his regrets about the career he left behind to raise a family. But in all the scrapes, Bond got through, he never had to raise a family and there is no gadget that Q could ever have created to help with that.”
Bishop has become known as one of the most captivating and thought-provoking comedy forces on the international circuit. He delivers a collection of hilariously funny, yet thoroughly stimulating material in his latest show. “My Dad Was Nearly James Bond champions the real heroics of fatherhood by challenging common regrets and the ridiculous ideals of manhood that real, un-slick men try to live up to,” a spokesperson for the tour said.
Tickets for My Dad Was Nearly James Bond are on sale now on www.glor.ie.  For more information check out www.desbishop.com or www.facebook.com/desbishop.