Where Dave Bishop goes, chaos tends to follow. A hard-drinking, hard-living, iconoclast comic, Dave has been rocking comedy clubs all over the country with his venomous and uncompromising comedy. He’s been described as angry, volatile and wild. He’s also been described as funny.
His delivery is upfront and riotous, calculated to whip an audience into frenzy. Dave feeds on laughter and shock, firing back killer material, sharp adlibs and strange, unpredictable and hilarious tangents. It would be a mistake, however, to think of Dave as some sour, twisted and unforgiving monster. Dave can be at his absolute best when his well-hidden tender side unexpectedly shines through, or when his inner child looks out to see what all the noise is about.
Taking in a broad spectrum of topics, Dave can discuss anything from Sesame Street to Afghanistan without breaking a sweat, as well as veering swiftly from the globally relevant to the nakedly confessional. Dave can take an audience to the brink of being morbidly offended then haul them back from the precipice with a killer punchline.
Having gigged all over the country, supported American legends Doug Stanhope & Joe Rogan and with much more to come, you can expect to see Dave leaving a trail of hangovers, broken homes, empty pints and adoring audiences somewhere near you in the near future.
TV:
Dial-a-Date - Hewland International 1999
Sit Down Stand Up - Channel M 2003
Modern Life is Rubbish - Granada Factual 2006
Radio:
Guest on BBC GMR’s Michelle Around Midnight
Fuse FM
XFM
Press:
"Has been described as the star of the new generation emerging on Manchester’s comedy scene and I would agree with that without hesitation. My only advice is this: catch this barrel of laughs in Manchester before
his sell-out nationwide gig tickets are gold dust! " Student Direct
"Angry and caustic comedy from a respected stand-up" Leeds Guide
"Bishop’s aggression with a grin style had the Depot rocking." - Lancashire Evening Telegraph
"One of the funniest comedians I’ve ever seen" Smooth FM
Bishop you are the man. You’ve done your country proud. Now when I say "He’s not gay he’s English" I fuckin mean it! - Ronnie P
Films
24 Hour Party People
Dave Bishop's Interests
General
Stand-Up Comedy is a big one, from time to time people ask me about getting into it - please do if you want any information. In the meantime, I pinned these notes to my fridge three and a half years ago. They are still there.
The Principles of Comedy Bill Hicks Taught
1. If you can be yourself on stage nobody else can be you and you have the law of supply and demand covered.
2. The act is something you fall back on if you can't think of anything
else to say.
3. Only do what you think is funny, never just what you think they will like,
even though it's not that funny to you.
4. Never ask them is this funny - you tell them this is funny.
5. You are not married to any of this shit - if something happens, taking you off on a tangent, NEVER go back and finish a bit, just move on.
6. NEVER ask the audience "How You Doing?" People who do that can't think of an opening line. They came to see you to tell them how they're doing, asking that stupid question up front just digs a whole. This is The Most Common Mistake made by performers. I want to leave as soon as they say that.
7. Write what entertains you. If you can't be funny be interesting. You
haven't lost the crowd. Have something to say and then do it in a funny way.
8. I close my eyes and walk out there and that's where I start, Honest.
9. Listen to what you are saying, ask yourself, "Why am I saying it and is it
Necessary?" (This will filter all your material and cut the unnecessary
words, economy of words)
10. Play to the top of the intelligence of the room. There aren't any bad
crowds, just wrong choices.
11. Remember this is the hardest thing there is to do. If you can do this you can do anything.
12. I love my cracker roots. Get to know your family, be friends with them
The Clash, The Stone Roses, Dinosaur Jr, Mazzy Star, Roots Manuva, Gang Starr, Eric B and Rakim, Tricky, Sex Pistols, Notorious BIG, Neil Young, Elliott Smith, Jeff Buckley, Baby Namboos, Gideon Conn, first two Suede LPs, The Grifters, The Cure, Jesus and Mary Chain anything that hasn't had any of the interesting bits filed off the edges.
Movies
Audition, Simpathy for Mr. Vengance, Battle Royale (not the crappy sequel), Hard Boiled, Ichi The Killer, Abre Los Ojos, Carne Tremula, La Haine, The Draughtsmans Contract, Jamon Jamon, Malena, Amores Perros, One Take Only, Dead or Alive, Bullet in the Head, The Killer, Superman Returns.
Television
Oz was really the only television show I've thought was worth watching.
Books
Anything by Martin Amis, Philip K. Dick, Alexander Trocchi, Greg Palast, Crowley all sorts of stuff really.
Heroes
Comedians like Bill Hicks, Doug Stanhope, Joe Rogan, Ian Cognito (who in any other country would be a star), Jerry Sadowitz, Richard Pryor - and a whole other bunch of guys you'll never hear of because comedy bookers are too retarded to know where the future lies.
Authors like Alexander Trocchi and Philip K. Dick who had the worldview of "I am the intelligensia, so you'd better fucking listen to me".
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin
Mordechai Vanunu
Bands like The Clash and The Stone Roses who could have been bigger than the fucking Beatles but decided to piss it all up against a wall instead.
Shigeru Miyamoto, guy created Mario, Zelda - all my favorite games.
Dan Schlissel
The person who invented Lucozade, how else would I cope with 350 hangovers a year?
My mum.
My sister
Jimmy McNulty
I'm a member of Captain Sensibles Blah! Party. If you are sick and tired of Labour, and the Tories and general bollocks - You should go to their website and join too.
Voting figures have seen a sharp decline over the past thirteen years with turnout at the last election the third lowest since the turn of the twentieth century. Turnout at the 2005 election was only 61.4% with just over 17 million of those registered to vote choosing not to.
In contrast, increasing numbers of people are voting for reality television shows with 10.8 million votes cast for the last X-Factor and 22.5 million votes for Big Brother 2005.
Led by Captain Sensible, the Blah! Party is set to become the biggest political party in the UK, with a membership target of over 300,000, to force the politicians to listen to the people that they represent.
This video clip really unerlines the fact that our current politicians are all the same ladies and gents. Whoever spent the time on this - well done.
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I'll show you politics. Here it is, right here. "I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs." "I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking." "Hey, wait a minute, there's one guy holding out both puppets!" (Bill Hicks)
At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole god-damned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves. Charles Bukowski.
I've even done a slideshow - feast your eyes on these photos.
This is me and Chris (just above my shoulder on the right), who did my photos. He's also done some other people you might have heard of Bill Hicks, Derren Brown, Chuck Palahniuk, Ross Noble, David Cross , Noam Chomsky, Doug Stanhope... you get the picture.
He's got a website that I suggest you check out: www.cmsaunders.free-online.co.uk/
These are my mates who do comedy. It might not look like it but I do have friends who don't do comedy. Infact - I think most comedians are the most boring people in the world. I don't care about your last gig in Slough so please don't spend 6 hours in the car on the way back from a gig telling me about it!
Me with my best mate in Blackpool
I came across this while walking past Space Bar in Manchester:
Being a Deejay is way cooler than being a comedian. Check out that guy Tony "Mentally Ill" Matterhorn. Like I could attract people to my gigs with that kind of headline!
Who I'd like to meet:
If I do twenty minutes of material in a room full of shitheads and I get just one person to go home and think twice about what they hear about in the news, to improve their life for the better, then fuck, that's what it's all about. I'd like to meet that person. At every gig.
hooters?? hahah yeah time for an upgrade! you must dress nice for the opera, well not everyone was dressed up properly, but its really up to you what you want to wear, i'd prefer looking classy. they sell drinks right outside the theater so we'll get some champagne and enjoy the show =]
It’s been far too long since I last said hello and so much has happened I thought it about time we said did.
We’ve changed a lot, now we are an “UltraModern, post-electro rock, post-nu rave behemoth where Muse and Mansun meet a Massive Attack with Duran Duran pop sensibilities, louder guitars, and a stunning female front person/guitar virtuoso”, or so we have been told.
I’d love to know what you’ve been up to since we disappeared into the dark damp studio cave, let us know how it’s going, I’m always up for a chat! May your thoughts be Scarlet and your actions Blonde ;-) Dawn xx Scarlet/blonde
if you don't mind spending some extra cash, you should stay at the Venetian. thats where i stayed this time, its gorgeous, i'm staying there again when i go. my birthday is on the 24th so i'm gonna be there that week. we'll go to the opera together =] haha
yes i did, my favorite one was Phantom at the Venetian. have you seen it? if not, OMG you must see it! doesn't matter if you like opera or not, this show will blow you away. hey guess what? i'm gonna be in Vegas again in July! =] for my birthday haha hope to see you there!
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