Des Bishop's Pandemic Love Story | First Date with Lauren Compton

First Date with Lauren Compton

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Comedy Interviews, Sexuality, Comedy, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.7 • 940 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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0:00.0	I'm so excited to see you tonight.
0:06.0	First date, baby.
0:10.0	First date. I can't wait.
0:14.0	First date.
0:18.0	What is up, you guys?
0:19.0	Thank you for watching another episode of First Date. My guest today is a hilarious
0:22.4	comedian that's touring all over North America. You can get tickets to go see him at desbishop.net. Give it up for Desbishop.
0:29.9	All right. Thanks for having me. I'm in a better mood just from hearing your intro song.
0:35.7	You like it? It's very, it's very cheery. Is that the first time you've ever heard it? It's actually the first time I've heard your intro song. Ha! You like it? It's very cheery.
0:38.1	Is that the first time you've ever heard it? It's actually the first time I've heard the intro song. I've seen loads of your clips, but I've never actually heard the intro song. It's a banger, right? You know, I don't know. Just say yes. Yes. Thank you. I was feeling it on a deeper level than banger. Oh, what were you feeling? It was moving you?
0:55.1	Yeah, it was just very uplifting. Are bangers uplifting? Yeah. Well, it's an uplifting banger. I'll take it. Yes, indeed. So you just got to Austin. Is this your first time in Austin? Second time in Austin.
1:11.7	Do you like it?
1:12.5	Yeah, I like it.
1:13.3	I mean, the first time I was here was like three years ago. What do you do when you come to Austin? I just do shows, you know? So as I've gotten older, I've gotten a little less motivated to like properly do stuff. I mean, like after my show, the last, you know, whatever it was like three years ago,
1:28.3	I walked down the insane street and there was like mayhem.
1:32.5	Was that on 6th Street?
1:33.8	I guess.
1:34.8	I feel like that's the insane street.
1:37.1	Yeah, it was like pedestrianized.
1:38.8	Yeah, yeah.
1:39.6	And the scooter, the electric scooter thing that I was on was. Terrifying? No, but unusable. You know, you can't use it on that street. Anyway, that was my experience of Austin. It's fun, you know? Yeah. But I was lazy. Like, I couldn't... If somebody said, like, oh, what did you do in Austin? I wouldn't really be able to say much other than that. Are you dating anybody?
2:01.6	I'm married.
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