Does it offend you, yeah?

Comedian Kevin Bishop told Soccer AM he couldn't help offending people in his sketch show, because he has an 'off-key' sense of humour.

The Kevin Bishop Show has been a huge success ever since it first aired on Channel 4 in July 2007 and last month it returned to our screens for a second season.

Yet despite high ratings the first series received 194 complaints, second only to Big Brother, although Bishop revealed he wasn't overly concerned.

"We don't set out to offend anyone but because it's my show I have to be fair and say well it's my sense of humour and unfortunately it's a little bit off-key," he said.

"We did one sketch called Fred West Side Story and that didn't go down too well, but I recommend you Youtube that, because it is funny!

"I get told off all the time, but people don't necessarily come up to me in the street and say 'that Fred West Side Story - that was a terrible thing to do', because there's so many sketches they forget, but people do get offended by things.

"I suppose it's subjective isn't? Some people get offended by certain things and other people get offended by something else, but it's not going to kill you, you just get offended! It's not like I came in their front room and punched them in their face."

Controversy

He may not have punched anyone in the face, but he certainly caused controversy at the 2008 Comedy Awards.

The Kevin Bishop Show was up against The Inbetweeners for Best Comedy and despite losing out to his good friends, Bishop still managed to steal the show as he explained:

"The thing is with The Comedy Awards, everyone in that room knows each other," he said.

"We're all friends and we've all worked with each other two or three times and I know all The Inbetweeners guys and they're good friends of mine.

"We felt the Inbetweeners would win the award as well because we like the show and before the awards kicked off I said to their producer 'when you win the award we're going to throw everything on the table at you' and my mate Ian, who caught the bottle, said 'alright Bishop I bet you £500 you don't'.

"So I said 'yeah all right' and by the time I'd had loads to drink I thought 'what a great idea, I'm going to do it!' And we just threw everything on the table, everything.

"I saw it back the next day and I thought 'that looks mental', but it was a laugh and I'd do it again. I also had a gun, but I didn't use it so I don't know why everyone got upset!" he joked.