Liverpool Daily Post - Comedy Blog

A portrait of the comic: John Bishop pt 2

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:36:40 +0000

Following on from the last blog, here's a pic of John Bishop at The Gallery, Clayton Square, with the portrait of him as drawn by artist Madelaina Murthwaite. Apparently he was so impressed he wants to snap it up himself!

You can still see the iron artwork of his brother, Eddie Bishop, at the Gallery until later this month.

John Bishop to open brother's city exhibition

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:18:16 +0000

He's everywhere at the moment, but John Bishop is still taking time out to open an exhibition of his brother's artwork tonight (July 8).

My friend the artist Madelaina Murthwaite has been promoting the work of Eddie Bishop in her premises The Gallery in Clayton Square. With her gift of the gab, it was no surprise that she'd soon talked John into visiting - and working!

An ironmonger by trade, it's only recently that Eddie has taken to using his talents to create artwork - and they really are stunning pieces, so this exhibition will be well worth a look in its own right besides.

The exhibition, called the Irony of Wood, is also in collaboration with marquetry specialist Paul Lomas Harcombe. It launches tonight at this ticketed event, ÃÂ£3 on the door with all proceeds going to Fybromyalgia support, and runs until July 25

RIP Frank Sidebottom

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:07:55 +0000

Sad news today about the death of one of the North West's most enduring - and genuinely loved - comedy characters

It's time to pass the torch: A tribute to Dio

Tue, 18 May 2010 21:59:25 +0000

Metal god Ronnie James Dio died this week. An all-round gent with a lovely and amusing way with words, he also inspired some pretty top notch comic parodies too. Let us take a trip down (YouTube) memory lane...

Royal Court Variety Lunch Club

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:49:53 +0000

"Just done a gig to 150 confused pensioners in the afternoon. It was awesome!", Tweeted Sam Avery.

Vote WANK

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:37:36 +0000

Pranksters ahoy on Leece Street today, with points for maximum effort awarded to this rather elaborate April Fool:

At least, I think it is. You can never really be sure in this town, can you...

For what is Star Wars without Bea Arthur?

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:16:34 +0000

Liverpool was a-Twitter about the Star Wars classical concert at the arena last night.

But even sci fi expert and fellow blogger Scyfi Love wasn't aware of this bizarre little gem, which is, undeniably, the last word in "unique collaboration" - late, great Golden Girl Bea Arthur belting out a number as the Peggy Mitchell of the cantina in a Star Wars holiday special. Just one more round, friends:

Kevin's adventures in Newsjack

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:58:30 +0000

Former Echo hack Kevin Core is a Newsjacker, having had several of his topical comedy sketches aired on the BBC Radio show. Here he writes for the Comedy Blog about how he got on - and how you could too.

Winkler Watch

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:59:30 +0000

The Comedy Blog gets on the Peter Pan-dwagon (that's quite enough of that gag now)

Loads of stuff

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:54:48 +0000

THERE'S been so much going on, we'd better have a round up

John Bishop up for Edinburgh comedy award

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:27:58 +0000

SCOUSE comic has one in six chance of reinforcing our beloved 'best sense of humour' cliche

Glenn Beck in 'deliberately funny' shock

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:37:19 +0000

Surely the strangest story of the week so far has to be the fact that Fox News super patriot Glenn Beck actually does stand up

Open mic night

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:58:55 +0000

New night open to any kind of act

U2 vs Dethklok

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:04:03 +0000

Be afraid, be very afraid

That's racist (or probably not)

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:45:11 +0000

WHO knew sporting a Hitler moustache would get Richard Herring into so much trouble? Oh...