1. Desmond Bishop was born on 12 November 1975 and is an American - Irish comedian.
14 Facts About Des Bishop
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Des Bishop was brought up in New York and moved to Ireland at the age of 14.
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Des Bishop has a degree in English and history from University College Cork.
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Des Bishop has worked as a comic in Ireland since the late 1990s.
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Des Bishop began hosting shows and honing his act at the International Comedy Cellar, a venue set up by Irish comics such as Ardal O'Hanlon, Kevin Gildea, and Barry Murphy.
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Des Bishop appeared in the 2002 film In America, in which he played a high stockbroker rapping in the back of a New York taxi cab.
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Des Bishop reached a broader audience after his TV show The Des Bishop Work Experience screened on RTE Two in 2004.
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Des Bishop received significant criticism during a show in 2006 for ableist comments he aimed at an audience member who was in a wheelchair and had an intellectual disability.
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Des Bishop speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese and has worked in China where he has adopted the Chinese stage name Bi Hansheng and has appeared in a few Chinese dating shows.
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In 2017, Des Bishop took part in the first series of the Irish version of Dancing with the Stars.
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Des Bishop's father died from lung cancer in February 2011, and on 19 March 2019, his mother Eileen died at the age of 77, after a long illness.
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In February 2021, Des Bishop became engaged to Hannah Berner, a former main cast member on the Bravo reality television series Summer House.
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Des Bishop's TV show In the Name of the Fada premiered in 2008.
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Des Bishop later used his Irish-language skills to sing the Gaeilge version of the song "Jump Around" called Leim Thart.