Comedian Jimeoin is ready host The Full Brazilian for SBS during the World Cup
COMEDIAN Jimeoin has got his legs — and head — back on TV, ready to go The Full Brazilian for the World Cup.
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THERE’S few men on Australian TV who would admit to it and less still who would pose up to prove it.
But Jimeoin wants it known: “I’ve got great legs, you know, I gotta get them out there.’’
And after seeing his pins, strapped into a dazzling pair of gold heels we can’t entirely disagree with his leggy boast (even if they’re in need of a little man-scaping).
Taking the carnivale theme of his World Cup entertainment series, The Full Brazilian to heart, the Irish comic will stride out from behind the usual sporting panel show desk to present a different, light-hearted format for SBS during the football festival.
Back on TV return after four years of stand-up, the Melbourne-based comic is as dry as always discussing what he thinks will work for the show, and more generally, what doesn’t for most comics on the small screen.
“Sitting down at a panel ... instantly there’s your physicality gone. I’m from here (waist) up and I’m competing with four other people. It’s just not stand-up. Sometimes people have a stand-up piece that works best if that person is standing up,”’ he says, “So don’t do anything but have them standing up.”
Covering the 25 days of the Brazil World Cup, Jimeoin hopes to use his nightly, one-hour live shows to showcase comedy talent he’s seen flourish on the stand-up circuit, but can’t seem to crack it onto TV screens.
A household name by 1995 after three seasons of his self-titled Channel Seven series, Jimeoin enjoyed big screen success with The Craic (1999) and The Extra (2005). The hard slog of international touring which has built on that loyal fan base.
For the football devotee and Liverpool fan, the World Cup is ‘the only true drama left on TV’.
“Like fans who binge on Breaking Bad, I’ll binge on The World Cup. There are so many twists and turns, it’s so unpredictable. The true leading roles can fall away. It just leaves Game Of Thrones for dead,” he says.
He’s faced his own dramas trying to watch the last Cup after flying to London for a gig only to realise he’d been booked to play before a rowdy crowd, boozed up for the big match.
“I’ve come down and they’ve got a big screen across one wall of this tent, pitched in the beer garden. The place is full, everyone’s got booze and I’ve said: ‘oh fantastic, I’m not going on’. Then a fight broke out between the promoter and the venue owner. It literally came to blows in a bad way, while I just watched the game going: ‘I’m not going on, I’m just not going on’.”
After planning to take the Cup period as a holiday period, the full-time funny guy couldn’t resist mixing business with pleasure.
“We’re going to turn it on, dress up and make a bit of a party of it.’’
THE FULL BRAZILIAN
7.30PM, FRIDAY (June 13), SBSONE, THEN CONTINUES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD CUP
EVERY MATCH LIVE and EXCLUSIVE on SBS from JUNE 13 to JULY 14
Originally published as Comedian Jimeoin is ready host The Full Brazilian for SBS during the World Cup
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