More than 20 years after he first appeared on our television screens, Jimeoin is still Australia’s favourite Irishman.
Seen most recently on The Full Brazilian as part of SBS’s soccer World Cup coverage, Jimeoin is again teaming up with Bob Franklin, a star of hit Melbourne International Comedy Festival Show The Writers. This time, they’ll perform at the Yarraville Club.
Franklin has a long list of film credits including The Craic, The Extra, BoyTown and Beneath Hill 60, and has been a regular on TV shows such as The Mick Molloy Show and Thank God You’re Here and sitcoms.
When Star Weekly caught up with the laconic English-born, Welsh-raised comedian and asked how he broke into stand-up comedy, he was as dry and self-deprecating as ever.
“It was the same as when I performed surgery for the first time; I just had a few beers and jumped into it,” he said.
Does he still get nervous before a show?
“Cricketer Keith Miller once said, ‘Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your a***; cricket is not. What a Messerschmitt was doing on a cricket pitch is the real question.”
Jimeoin, Franklin and Dave Thornton perform on July 26 at 135 Stephen Street, Yarraville. Tickets from $30.
More details: www.yarravillelaughs.com
