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Jarlath Regan (born 1980) is an Irish stand-up comedian, television performer, and host of the ''An Irishman Abroad'' podcast.


Stand-up shows

While attending
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, he was auditor of the Literary and Historical Society. Regan began his stand-up comedy career in 2003 and by the end of 2004 was a finalist for three major UK comedy newcomer awards: So You Think You're Funny, BBC New Comedy Awards and the Chortle Student Comedian of the Year. In 2006, he performed as part of the first ever Irish gala at the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal, Canada. Regan's shows have included 2007's
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show "Nobody Knows... Jarlath Regan", 2018/19's "Organ Freeman", which chronicled his experience as a live-organ donor, and 2019/2020's "Notion's Eleven", which was recorded in Vicar Street for online release in late 2020.


Television work

Regan wrote and performed sketches on Scope, an Irish science television programme for teenagers and was a regular panellist during the 2008–2009 season of '' The Panel''. In 2010, Regan co-presented '' The Rumour Room'', a teen entertainment series part of TRTÉ on
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television.


''An Irishman Abroad''

In 2013, Regan began ''An Irishman Abroad'', a series of weekly
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s interviewing Irish people and people of Irish descent about their lives and gaining insights into the experiences of Irish people abroad, both successes and failures. It won the iTunes Store's award for "Best New Audio Podcast" for 2013. Most of the guests of the more than 350 episodes have been celebrities from the worlds of comedy ( Dara Ó Briain, Jason Byrne, Graham Linehan), sport ( Sonia O'Sullivan, Richard Hughes), as well as film and television ( Jack Reynor,
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,
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). Some of the guests are not particularly famous, but are successful and have a story to tell. In 2014, ''
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'' included the podcast among the "best comedy podcasts", and Niall Byrne of the ''
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'' included it in a list of "world's greatest podcasts". In 2017,
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website ''IrishCentral.com'' described the podcast as "some of the best conversations with Irish people you'll ever hear". Pat Carty of
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attributes this success to the non-reliance on a "parade of famous faces". In 2020, Stevie Gallacher of ''
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'' described the podcast as proof that the Irish have the " gift of the gab". In 2014, Paul Campbell of ''
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'''s "Talking Sport" blog wrote of the Jerry Flannery edition that "every single young person reading this should go download this podcast and listen to it every week for the rest of time". A justice-themed spin-off series ''Irishman Behind Bars'' was launched in 2019, while a basketball-themed spin-off series, ''Inside Basketball'' and
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-themed series, ''Irishman In America'', were launched in 2020. ''Irishman Running Abroad'' also launched in 2020. The podcast moved to
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in August 2020. Regan took over the editing and production on all of the Irishman Abroad podcasts. Together with his wife Tina, he created a new parenting podcast entitled, "Honey! You Are Ruining Our Kid!" This podcast was piloted on Patreon and released to the general public through a partnership with the GoLoud Network in September 2022.


See also

* Auditors of the Literary and Historical Society (University College Dublin)


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Regan, Jarlath 1980 births Living people Auditors of the Literary and Historical Society (University College Dublin) Irish male comedians Irish stand-up comedians Irish expatriates in the United Kingdom People from County Kildare RTÉ television presenters Irish podcasters Date of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people)