John Bishop and his son Joe will appear in a new ITV documentary later this year.
Set to air in autumn, Joe & John Bishop: Life After Deaf will document the dad and lad as they embark upon a journey to understand more about the Deaf community and learn British Sign Language (BSL) together in a one-hour film. Joe lost most of his hearing when he was just 15 years old.
It has now been 12 years since Joe became partially deaf. The documentary will show John set himself the goal of learning to Sign well enough to perform stand-up comedy in BSL to help communicate with his son and other members of the Deaf community better.
