I have to say that I switched over when John Bishop came on. He's become a self styled charity champion....the lines between his career and charity are becoming blurred...I don't rate him at all.
I have never thought he was remotely funny - the poor man's Stan Boardman, and that is saying very very little indeed - he only had one joke - saying The Geeermans .... every five minutes, and that wasn't funny once!!
I watched John Bishop's show live last year. I thought he was brilliant. I watched the first ten minutes of last nights show, and it was part of the act he did when I saw him ( the bit about chatting up birds). I can't comment on the guests, as work is always calling around that time :-(