Des Bishop

DES BISHOP

Lately
3Olympia Theatre

26^th February 2025 – LIMITED TICKETS AVAILABLE
27^th February 2025 – EXTRA DATE ADDED
28^th February 2025 – SOLD OUT

 Tickets on sale Wednesday  

Due to phenomenal demand, Des Bishop has announced a third show in the 3Olympia Theatre for 27^th February 2025 with his new show ‘Lately’. The world has changed, Ireland has changed, and Des’s life has changed … A LOT.

‘Lately’ is a hilarious, in your face standup show that talks about all this and more as Des tried to make sense of all the changes in his life and all our lives.

Tickets from €35.90 including booking fees on sale Wednesday 15^th January at 10AM 

Since moving from Queens, New York to Ireland in his mid teens, Des Bishop has carved out a highly successful career in stand up and is one of the most enigmatic forces on the international comedy circuit. He has a number of acclaimed television series on RTÉ including The Des Bishop Work Experience (2004), Joy in the Hood (2006), the award winning six episode comedy documentary series In the Name of the Fada (2008) and most recently, Des Bishop’s Election (2016). In 2011, RTÉ broadcast a critically acclaimed documentary made with his terminally ill father, My Dad Was Nearly James Bond .

In 2014 Des spent a year living in China learning Mandarin, as depicted in the six part documentary series broadcast on RTÉ, Des Bishop: Breaking China.

Des has released five stand-up DVDs including Des Bishop Live (2005), Tongues (2008) and Desfunctional (2009) and Made in China (2015) which all secured top ten positions. Des has also written two stage plays, Rap Éire and Shooting Gallery, in collaboration with Arthur Riordan. His first book, My Dad Was Nearly James Bond, a family memoir, was published by Penguin in October 2011.

As well as national and international tours, Des has performed at a variety of international festivals including the Montreal Just for Laughs and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as well as at Kilkenny Cat Laughs and the Vodafone Comedy Festival in Dublin.

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