{"id":268367,"date":"2026-01-28T13:25:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T13:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/268367\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T13:25:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T13:25:01","slug":"i-just-poured-out-all-this-stuff-about-getting-divorced-john-bishop-on-saving-his-marriage-and-how-it-became-a-hollywood-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/268367\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I just poured out all this stuff about getting divorced\u2019: John Bishop on saving his marriage \u2014 and how it became a Hollywood movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The Everton comic recalls the joke that launched his stand-up career and ultimately saved his marriage \u2013 and why his wife was nervous about the upcoming film based on their story\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Melanie Bishop and John Bishop attend the premiere of ' 'Is This Thing On?' in London. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769606701_258_tyImages_2257114153.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Melanie Bishop and John Bishop attend the premiere of &#8216; &#8216;Is This Thing On?&#8217; in London. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">John Bishop remembers the first joke he ever told as a comedian. It happened on a weeknight in Manchester in October 2000, and there were six, maybe seven people in attendance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Bishop \u2013 then a pharmaceuticals sales director \u2013 had thrown his name in the hat for an open mic night at the Frog and Bucket comedy club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Everton comic recalls the joke that launched his stand-up career and ultimately saved his marriage \u2013 and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[52180,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-268367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-chris-wasser","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}