John Bishop reveals his best chat up lines

Comedian, John Bishop has spoken about teaching his sons chat up lines and how he met his wife.

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Speaking about empty nest syndrome as his sons are starting to leave home, John said: “What we’ve been doing, we’ve been trying to realise that they’re going to go and instead Melanie has just been replacing them with animals.

I thought, they’re going to go and we’re going to travel the world and we’ll have bohemian holidays but we can’t now because we’ve got a menagerie instead.”

The Liverpudlian comic also spoke about his sons, and their dating lives.

“I had this thing where I was trying to explain chatting up to my kids who just don’t get it because they don’t have to do it… I had a conversation with my 17 year old about mistletoe… He said, ‘Dad I’m on Tinder’ but for a generation of us, mistletoe was like happy time for ugly people!”

John shared the story whilst filming for The Jonathan Ross Show of how he met his wife Melanie: “The first time I saw Melanie, I was in a library at university and I just walked over to her and I said, ‘I’ll be back in a minute and we’ll go for a coffee’ and she said, ‘how do you know I want to go for a coffee with you?’ and I said, ‘Because you do.’”

He continued: “And then I just walked away and left her for 45 minutes… I was a young man full of confidence and then when I came back, I said, ‘Let’s go’ and then it went from there… I went home to my student house that I was in and I said [to my mate that I was living with]… ‘I’ve met the girl I’m going to marry’ and he said, ‘I bet you haven’t’ and because I hate losing a bet…” he laughed.