Quotes by John Bishop - Page 1

On his teenage son: To be honest, I'm not sure the same kid comes home each night.
John Bishop / Stand-Up Comedian
Funny
Home
Teenage
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Being an England supporter is like being the over-optimistic parents of the fat kid on sports day.
John Bishop / Stand-Up Comedian
Sports
Football
Soccer
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I can only develop a stand-up show by being on stage. I can't write it. Whenever I see comedy written down, it very rarely makes me laugh.
John Bishop / Stand-Up Comedian
Comedy
Laughing
Writing
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I don't think interviewing people is any different than normal communication. The only thing is that it has these boundaries set upon it as to what the conversation is about.
John Bishop / Stand-Up Comedian
Communication
People
Thinking
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For me, a tour show should have a narrative; it should have an arc. It shouldn't just be, "Here's one joke, here's another joke." That's not my style. They all have to somehow link together.
John Bishop / Stand-Up Comedian
Should Have
Style
Together
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When you start doing television, you want a transcript of what you're going to say, and every time I've had to do that, I've looked at it and gone, "That's just not funny." It only comes alive when you speak it.
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Gone
Television
Want
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You have to have that emotional investment in the jokes that you're saying otherwise they actually don't work. You can say exactly the same thing, but if you don't believe it's funny at the time that you're saying it, it won't be.
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Believe
Emotional
Investment
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I refuse, whenever possible, to do shows on a Monday. I don't do gigs on a Monday, because nobody laughs on Mondays. Everybody wants Monday to be over. I just won't do 'em. But the rest of the time, in all honesty, it doesn't matter where you are: if something's funny, people laugh.
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Honesty
Laughing
Monday
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What you have to do as a comedian, that I suppose is quite difficult, is you have to end it. All the stuff that I've ever done in the past - all the tours - no matter how good it was last year or the year before, that's gone. What exists this year only exists in this time, and then it will be gone.
John Bishop / Stand-Up Comedian
Comedian
Past
Years
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What you have to remember, when you get to the level of seeing 10,000 people a night, is that they've all paid to have a performance. I need to make sure that they get their money's worth. I don't want to be going on stage and saying, "I'm just going to try some stuff and if it doesn't work, it doesn't matter," because it does matter.
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Night
People
Trying
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If you're a musician, you create what you love and hope other people love it as well. Amongst musicians, the starting point is what they love, and then they bring people to them. As a comedian, you have to say something that people relate to, or nobody laughs. As an actor, you have to perform the character in the way that people relate to.
John Bishop / Stand-Up Comedian
Character
Laughing
People
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