Several visitors to Scouse funnyman John Bishop's show at Southport Theatre last night (November 3, 2010) claimed that towards the end of the performance he lost his temper with a member of the audience and verbally threatened them, after a suggestion for a joke was misconstrued.
“It was absolutely disgusting. He told the audience about his BBC show and invited the audience to suggest jokes that he couldn't say on it, so the people in audience started shouting suggestions that weren't very funny, including quite a lot which were in bad taste,” said one member of the audience, who only wished to be identified as Mark.
“Then a joke which started with ‘your mother' got shouted about by one person there, and [Mr Bishop] completely blew a fuse about it, and basically offered to have a fight with this guy. It was absolutely awful, you could the atmosphere in the room with a knife.”
John Bishop, who grew up in Liverpool and played with Southport Football Club before turning his talents to stand up comedy, has appeared on a string of TV shows before being given his own primetime BBC One series, John Bishop's Britain, last year.
His official website has yet to make any statement on the performance, but it is understood he apologised to the audience member at the end of the performance, and also made reference to the incident on his Twitter feed hours after the show.
“To clear things up I mistook a comment as an insult to my mum so lost my temper a bit,” he wrote.
“I was mistaken but the rest of the gig was lovely.”
His publicist also commented after the show:
"John misinterpreted what he had heard and thought it was a direct insult towards his family. He took great offence which he expressed towards him. However, he did apologise there and then, and also shook hands with him after the show, which cleared up the misunderstanding."
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