Soho Theatre, W1
While ambitious Irish comedians usually do the short hop to England to make it big Jimeoin - pronounced Jim-Owen - took a more scenic route.
This terrific observational stand-up moved to Australia where he became a major star, which means that on his regular visits to London his shows are packed out with not one, but two groups of ex-pats - London's Irish and Aussie backpackers regularly fall off their seats at his shows.
Gradually, though, Jimeoin has built up a sizeable local following here, and he deserves it too.
His subjects might be the everyday - the way people walk, the way they talk - but he has a laser-guided eye for human foibles and a love of the oddities of language that Beckett would have appreciated.
Just when you think that "have you ever noticed?" comedy has run its course, Jimeoin shows there's life in the old genre yet. (0870 429 6883).
Until 3 March, 9.30pm.
