EXCLUSIVE: Comedian Des Bishop is set to release his latest special, Bridge & Tunnel, on Hulu on Friday, June 26.
In the new hour, filmed at the Comedy Cellar in New York City, Bishop embraces his inner “bridge and tunnel,” diving into the joys of not having kids, surviving Gen X dating, growing up Irish with a New Yorker’s attitude, and finding humor in the chaos of modern adulthood.
Mike Lavin directed, with Hannah Berner exec producing the hour.
Bishop is a native New Yorker who moved from Queens to Ireland in his mid-teens in 1990 and now has a big audience there, as well as a burgeoning following in the U.S. He came to Irish fame with TV shows The Des Bishop Work Experience (2004), where he lived on minimum wage working different jobs in Ireland; Joy in the Hood, where he taught stand-up comedy in disadvantaged areas of four major Irish cities; and In the Name of the Fada (2008, winner of the IFTA Best TV Series Award) about when he decided to learn Irish from scratch and perform a 60-minute stand-up comedy routine in the Irish language.
In 2010, Bishop wrote his most personal show, My Dad Was Nearly James Bond, inspired by his father Mike and his diagnosis with terminal cancer. He won an Irish Book of the Year Award for his memoir of the same name and brought a solo show version to the Edinburgh Fringe to widespread acclaim. In 2013, Bishop went to Beijing, China to learn Mandarin. He is now fluent and the show about his experience, Breaking China, was another major Edinburgh hit.
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Bishop has appeared on many live stand-up shows including Edinburgh Comedy Festival Live (BBC), Live at the Comedy Store (Comedy Central) and Australia’s Spicks and Specks (ABC). He has released six stand-up specials, including Made in China (Universal 2015), One Day You’ll Understand (RTE 2018), and his latest, Of All People, and is also known for the HBO doc A Comic’s Climb.
Bishop is repped by Arsonhouse Entertainment, UTA, and Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum.