John Bishop reveals how Liverpool FC cancelled his Mayo gig

John Bishop has revealed why his Mayo gig was cancelled earlier this year.

The comedian said his Belmullet show was axed after he received a call from Liverpool Football Club requesting him to interview Jürgen Klopp at a huge fan event in Liverpool Arena following the German manager’s departure from the club.

Speaking on The Late Late Show, the Liverpool man was telling host Patrick Kielty about his time in Ireland, particularly along the Wild Atlantic Way, and explained why the gig never came to be.

“Liverpool Football Club phones me up after [the gigs are] already organised, and he said ‘Jürgen Klopp's going to leave, and he wants to do one more thing before he leaves, he wants to do an interview at the arena in front of 10,000 fans, and he's asked will you do the interview’, and I said ‘I'd love to’, I said ‘what's the date?’ he said the twenty-eighth of May.

“So I looked at me diary, I said ‘I think I'm in Ireland’ and I said, I said to Liverpool Football Club ‘I've got a gig in Belmullet’, and Liverpool Football Club said ‘where the * is Belmullet?’ I said, ‘I don't know’.

“I looked, and then I phoned me promoter Bren, I said, ‘Bren look, I've got this chance to interview Jürgen Klopp, how difficult will it be to move that gig in Belmullet?’ he said ‘I'll phone one person in the village, and he can tell everyone else’," concluded Mr Bishop.

It wasn’t County Mayo’s only mention on the season opener of the RTÉ talk show, with Mr Kielty poking fun at the county in his opening monologue.

Mentioning the most recent US Presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, the host said the latter replaced Joe Biden after Democrats started to ‘doubt his judgment’, before inserting a clip of President Joe Biden proclaiming ‘Mayo for Sam’ during his visit to the county last year.

“TV’s are switching off all across Westport,” joked the presenter.