JARLATH REGAN
Biography
Jarlath Regan started supporting himself through stand up comedy at the age of 24. As performing in Ireland, the UK, and internationally at festivals in Edinburgh, Montreal, Chicago, Melbourne, New Zealand, and Dubai.
In 2023, he relocated to London. Half a year later, he debuted the highly praised podcast series, *Irishman Abroad*. This collection of in-depth, long-form interviews with well-known Irish emigrants and people of Irish heritage has earned rave reviews from *The Guardian*, *The Telegraph*, and *The Irish Times*. Meanwhile the podcast has featured Hozier, Sharon Horgan, Brian O’Driscoll, Chris O’Dowd, Sir Terry Wogan, Glen Hansard, Aidan Gillen, Sonia O’Sullivan, Boy George, Dylan Moran, Lisa Hannigan, Graham Linehan, and many more.
“Could turn out to be the biggest thing since Ricky Gervais picked up a laptop” – The Telegraph.
“Quite frankly, every single young person reading this should go download this podcast and listen to it every week for the rest of time.” – The Guardian.
Jarlath was raised on the windswept plains of the Curragh of Kildare he dreamed of being a professional basketball player but shelved the ambition due to combination of injuries and on the early on-set of “cop on”. The NBA’s loss has been stand-up comedy’s gain.
“Side-splitting stuff…causes near hysteria in the room” – Metro.
“an unstoppable, relentless, never ending flow of fantastic tales and over the top mind blowing observations making the audience laugh so much that trying to stop was as impossible as dealing with the hiccups” – DB MAGAZINE (Australia).
“the sort of comic you want to take home to meet your mum…an unshakeable ability to turn an ordinary anecdote into a winning story…a perfect teatime show” – Chortle.
Jarlath Regan made his television debut on Dara O’Briain’s beloved series The Panel before gracing ITV’S Live At London Palladium, showcasing his talent on Russell Howard’sGood News for the BBC, Comedy Central’s The World Stands Up, as well as NBC’s Last Comic Standing, among various other shows.
For years he has made bizarre greeting cards for Christmas, breakups and other special occasions. He has published two books of these cards with the help of Transworld Ireland for Random House. The first book, “How To Break Bad News” became an instant best-seller and something of a cult classic. While as a writer he has contributed material to several primetime TV and radio shows and has been a columnist for The Irish Post. He made a little bit of history by becoming the first comedian to record a live album in Dublin’s Comedy Cellar – the venue that gave birth to Ardal O’Hanlon, Tommy Tiernan and Dylan Moran.
“The man radiates warmth while projecting deliciously dark greeting cards which are thoroughly recommended for Christmas or hostage situations” – The Scotsman
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