He was brought up in New York and is now primarily based in Ireland, after bei more... Des Bishop is an Irish-American comedian. He was brought up in New York and is now primarily based in Ireland, after being sent to boarding school in County Wexford for a heavy drinking problem in 1990 at the age of 14. Bishop’s TV show, In the Name of the Fada premiered in 2008. It deals with Bishop trying to learn Irish to a standard sufficient to perform an entire standup act through the language. During this period he achieved fluency in the language. He later used his Irish to sing the Gaeilge version of the song Jump Around called Léim Thart