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Comedy
Fri 12 and Sat 13 November 2010 at 8pm
Des Bishop
Tickets: €20
Edinburgh Fringe 2010 hit show:
* * * * * "this is a mature, controlled, humane and above all dazzlingly funny show" Chortle
* * * * * "He brings honesty, perceptiveness and 35 years' worth of bottled-up love, and fashions them into a beautiful gift to his dad. Like diamonds, this show is for ever." The Guardian
Inspired by his Father's recent diagnosis of lung cancer, Des Bishop's latest internationally acclaimed show 'My Dad Was Nearly James Bond' tells of a remarkable life tinged with regret.
In championing the real heroics of fatherhood, Des challenges these common regrets and the ridiculous ideals of manhood that real, un-slick men try to live up to.
Before I was born, my father had another life. As a boy I thought it was the coolest thing ever that my father was a model and appeared as a blind pilot in Day of the Triffids and had one line in Zulu. His biggest claim was that he was very close to getting the role of James Bond. George Lazenby got the part, and we never watched James Bond in our house as it reminded my father of his regrets about the career he left behind to raise a family. But in all the scrapes Bond got through, he never had to raise a family and there is no gadget that Q could ever have created to help with that.
Undoubtedly one of the most captivating and thought provoking comedy forces on the international circuit, Des delivers an extensive collection of hilariously funny, yet thoroughly stimulating material in his latest show. An unforgettable and touching comedy experience.
"Edgy material...snappy, never sappy...Bishop has judged this one beautifully" The Age, Australia
"Charismatic, sincere, eloquent and always seeking the angle" Chortle, UK
"a delicate balance between the hilarious and the touching" Irish Times
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