John Bishop, the Liverpool comedian who played Dan in Doctor Who, brought his stand-up tour Back At It to The London Palladium for one night.
John Bishop, the Liverpool comedian from Doctor Who, played The London Palladium in the West End on Thursday 3 April 2025. The night was part of his stand-up tour Back At It.
Bishop was born in 1966 and grew up in the Cheshire towns of Runcorn and Winsford. He played semi-professional football for clubs including Southport and Hyde United, then worked as a medical representative for the pharmaceutical company Syntex.
In 2000 he put his name down for an open mic night at the Frog and Bucket in Manchester. He left Syntex in 2006, at 40, to do comedy full time.
His 2009 Edinburgh Fringe show, Elvis Has Left the Building, was nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award. Live at the Apollo and his own series, John Bishop’s Britain, followed on the BBC. In 2012 he raised £4.2 million for Sport Relief with a triathlon from Paris to London.
Back At It was his return to stand-up after two years of television presenting, stage acting and podcasting. The tour opened in Bromley in March 2024 and had already played two nights on Argyll Street that month.