Yeh he lives in Manchester...been to his house a fair few times. (Fog Lane, if there's any stalkers out there)
My claim to fame is I was good mates with his son (still am sort of) so John Bishop used to take me back from football training and stuff, suppose I know him quite well but he never seemed that funny.
Having said that I don't think I would have understood any of his humour when I was 11/12.