Kevin Bishop

Kevin Brian Bishop is an English actor and comedian best known for The Kevin Bishop Show which he cowrote with Lee Hupfield Bishops first role was in Grange Hill His second role at age 16 was as Ben Quayle in Silent Witness He played Stupid Brian in three episodes of My Family He starred in Muppet Treasure Island as Jim Hawkins In 2005 he portrayed the late comedian Dudley Moore onstage in Pete and Dud Come Again a drama charting Moores turbulent relationship with Peter Cook which debuted at the Assembly Rooms as part of the Edinburgh Fringe before transferring to The Venue in Londons West End in March 2006 In August 2007 he appeared as the title character in Channel 4s satirical spoof documentary Being Tom Cruise a spinoff of Star Stories In September 2014 Bishop appeared in the oneman show Fully Committed at the Menier Chocolate Factory in which he played forty characters In 2013 Bishop appeared in the American comedy series Super Fun Night written by and starring Australian comedic actress Rebel Wilson The show ran for one season In August 2016 Bishop starred in the revival of classic 1970s BBC sitcom Porridge He played the role of Fletch grandson of Ronnie Barkers original main character locked up for cybercrime Originally a oneoff the show was commissioned to full series in October 2016 The first series was broadcast in October 2017 on a 6week run on BBC One as well as the full series being released at the same time on BBC iPlayer In 2016 Bishop played Nigel Farage in a oneoff BBC Two comedy series entitled Nigel Farage Gets His Life Back In 2017 Bishop became the speaking voice for 2D fictional lead singer of British virtual band Gorillaz