Jarlath Regan

Jarlath Regan (born 1980) is an Irish stand-up comedian, television performer, and host of the An Irishman Abroad podcast. While attending University College Dublin, 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 Edinburgh Fringe 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". He 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 RTÉ Two television.

In 2013, Regan began An Irishman Abroad, a series of weekly podcasts interviewing Irish people and people of Irish descent about their lives. It won the iTunes Store's award for "Best New Audio Podcast" for 2013. A justice-themed spin-off series Irishman Behind Bars was launched in 2019, while a basketball-themed spin-off series, Inside Basketball, and US politics-themed series, Irishman In America, were launched in 2020. The podcast moved to Patreon in August 2020.