Jimeoin

Here’s a guy that you are going to love from the moment you set your eyes on him. This English-born Irish-Australian stand-up comedian is as original as they come. He just takes over the stage with his deep, captivating voice, Irish brogue and amazing facial expressions. Jimeoin tops it up with  some  really  energetic  body  language  which  hits  the  mark.  He  takes  mundane  aspects  of human  nature  and  brings  out  the  funny  side  of  them  in  such  a  way,  that  the  laughs  keep  on coming. Jimeoin is also modest enough to evoke a laugh at his own expense. All in all, this guy is a born entertainer, and the wit seems to take its own natural course.

Born in 1966 as James Eoin Stephen Paul McKeown at Warwickshire, England, Jimeoin grew up in Londonderry, Ireland. After passing out from the Dominican College, Portstewart, he worked on construction sites in London for 4 years. Jimeoin moved to Australia at the age of 22, where he worked as a gardener. I was not until the 1990s that he began to pursue a career as a stand-up comedian.

Today  Jimeoin  is  well-established  stand-up  comedian  in  his own  right.  He  regularly  appears  at the Melbourne  International  Comedy  Festival  and  tours  extensively  with  advance  bookings being sold out long before the show, even with extra bookings. Other Australian venues include the Adelaide Fringe Festival,  the Sydney Cracker Comedy Festival  and  the Wild West Comedy Festival.  Jiimeoin  is  also  internationally  acclaimed,  and  has  performed  regularly  in  New  York, New Zealand, Europe, the UK and the Middle East. He is a regular at Just for Laughs, an annual comedy event at Montreal.

Jimeoin  is  a  popular  figure  in  world-wide  television  especially  in  the  UK.  He  has  frequently appeared on ITV and BBC in: Sunday Night at the Palladium (ITV1), Live at the Apollo (BBC1), 8 Out of 10 Cats (Channel  4),  Channel  4’s Comedy Gala, Dave’s One Night Stand, Edinburgh Comedy  Festival  –  Live! (BBC3), Monumental   (BBC   NI), Michael  McIntyre’s  Comedy Roadshow  (BBC1).  Jimeoin  has  also  performed  on  the Conan O’Brien Show in  the  US.  He created  his  own,  indigenous  television  show, The  Eponymous  Jimeoin, which  ran  for  three consecutive seasons, between 1994 and 1995. Jimeoin also was  successful as  “Convict Griffin” in a sitcom called Bligh in 1992.

He  has  also  proved  his  worth  as  a  writer  with  his  involvement  in  two  Australian  feature  films The Craic (1999) The Extra (2005) for which  he  co-wrote and also starred, alongside with Bob Franklin. Other films he appeared in are The Perfumer (1997) and You Can’t Stop the Murders, (2003).

Jimeoin added to his already high popularity during the 2014 FIFA World Cup by appearing on a primetime comedy program, The Full Brazilian, and he teamed up with the live coverage of the World Cup, where he appeared in a mix of stand-up comedy, football talk, and sketches.

“Jimeoin’s ever-evolving live show: a fluid mixture of his signature observations, with hawk eye dissection of more of the absurdities of life and how we live it.” – Belfast Waterfront “Comedy of the highest order… Inspired!” – Independent