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On this week’s episode of Girls With Goals, comedian, podcaster and illustrator, Jarlath Regan sat down with Denise Curtin to chat about his upcoming show Notions Eleven
Taking to Vicar Street on March 6 for his first ever stand-up special, Jarlath Regan is preparing to make people laugh until their bellies hurt with comedy that’s all based around today’s world.
But although Jarlath’s show will centre around how notion-fuelled we’ve all become as a society, he admits that his comedy isn’t here to hurt anyone.
“I think there’s been a lot of talk about how hard it is to write comedy in the current climate and ‘oh Jesus, sure you might be offending somebody’, I don’t agree with that. I don’t really agree with that, I think that if you can’t write jokes about now without hurting people’s feelings, you need to look at how you’re writing and what it is that you’re writing and why you want to write things that are going to hurt people.
“But then maybe I’m just not hurt. Maybe I just don’t get hurt easily. I’m an extremely privileged white, straight man who grew up with a load of opportunities at his feet so I don’t judge anybody for being offended by comedy, but I wanted to write a show that was really about now and found some grain of silly in what we’re all dealing with because this is a weird time, it’s weird isn’t it, it’s a weird time.”
Watch the episode here!
And when it comes to advice for budding comedians who too, similar to Jarlath, see themselves taking to the stage as the headline act, he reveals it’s all about treating comedy like a relationship.
“You have to get up, there’s no point in talking about it, annoying your friends about it, go and get up, do an open spot somewhere and usually you’ll know right away is like weirdly it is like a relationship.
“Irish women are nonsense, do not waste my time, comedy is the exact same way. Comedy will tell you… this is for you, this is not for you. I would give it three open spots, give yourself three five minute sets and if by the end of that you’re still in love with her and she’s being kind to you, go for it.”
You can catch Jarlath on Vicar Street with Notions Eleven this Friday, March 6. Tickets can be purchased from Ticketmaster here.
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