John Bishop will adapt his comedy on his new TV series, to ensure he doesn't offend viewers.
John Bishop adapts comedy to avoid offending viewers
The stand-up comedian, 55, will make some changes to the types of jokes he tells on his new programme, 'The John Bishop Show', because he will be judged by viewers "in a different way" to audiences at his stand-up tours.
He said: “When I am on tour I can say anything I want on stage and you can work within the parameters of the audience feedback because it’s immediate.
“When it’s on telly I get judged in a different way. If people want to get offended they will get offended before you’ve even finished your sentence. It gets judged by a different world.
“When I am on tour, people have bought a ticket to sit in the room with me.
“But the difference with telly is that I am going into someone’s living room and they didn’t necessarily invite me.. you are almost like a burglar.
“You have got to change things to accommodate as many people as possible without losing the essence of what I do. It’s a tightrope that can be walked.”
Alongside ‘The John Bishop Show’ - which airs on Saturday (08.01.22) – the comedian has some other ventures up his sleeve.
He is quoted by the Daily Star newspaper as saying: “There is something else I am going be doing next year but we have yet to nail it down.
“If that happens and you get an opportunity to go to somewhere that likes you, why wouldn’t you?”
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