Des Bishop’s entertainment company performing well

Comedian Des Bishop appears to be laughing all the way to the bank as the cash pile at his entertainment firm increased to €173,043 last year.

Latest accounts for Bishop’s Blow In Entertainment Ltd show it was a bumper year for the native New Yorker’s company.

The accounts show that the company’s cash pile increased from €41,624 to €173,043, while accumulated profits increased from €19,745 to €74,349 in the 12 months to the end of December 2016.

The comedian established the company in February 2015 to capitalise on his popularity on TV and sell-out crowds at his gigs in Ireland, the UK, the US and Australia.

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This year he performed on RTÉ's Dancing with the Stars, and he also fronted his show This Is Ireland.

He is the only employee of the company and paid himself €131,319 last year compared with €53,873 for a 10-month period in 2015. This comprised €90,000 in pay and €41,319 in pension contributions.

Mr Bishop grew up in Queens, New York, and moved to Ireland when he was 14, where he studied in a boarding school. The 41-year-old commenced stand-up while studying at UCC in Cork.