The performer, who grew up in Portstewart, may have made his home on the other side of the world, but this fly-on-the-wall show took him to obscure parts of this vast country.

In Jimeoin Down Under, we’ll see him entertaining audiences in the unlikeliest of places.

“It’s me on the road doing stand up,” Jimeoin said of the show.

“The instant comparison would be Billy Connolly’s World Tour of Australia, but this gives you more a feeling of what it’s like to be on the road.”

The programme features the funnyman, and a couple of close friends, visiting a range of places for the show, which is part-travelogue, part-road movie and part stand-up comedy gig.

“The east coast of Australia is well travelled, but the west and the top of the country are still a mystery,” he said.

“It really opened my eyes.”

The journey is an epic one, and uses various modes of transport.

“It’s the same distance between New York and LA, but there’s nobody there – the population is very sparse,” Jimeoin said.

He performs in mining towns and aboriginal communities in cattle stations, police stations, pubs and restaurants, as well as the occasional swimming pool.

“We’re going to places no performer had been before,” Jimeoin said.

It gave the shows a bit of an edge.

“You go to the Edinburgh festival and people know how to behave but this is different, the environment isn’t as controlled – this was a chance for me to find out how funny I really was.”

One of the shows even turned into a full-scale row, with punches being thrown.

“I prefer those kind of nights,” he said with a laugh.

In the programme he can also be seen helping to bring a crocodile into the world, experiencing a nudist beach and doing a fair amount of fishing.

While the places may be strange, especially for those of us used to the grey skies and constant drizzle of Northern Ireland, Jimeoin said that comedy is familiar.

“We all laugh at the same things and we all cry at the same things.

“People say American humour is different, but there’s more difference between a Monday and a Friday than there is between American humour and the rest of the world,” he said.

“What stand ups do in various countries may be different, what people laugh at is exactly the same.”

With a series of shows across Northern Ireland to tie in with the show, those of you who enjoy the programme can see Jimeoin live on stage.

“There are more people doing stand up now, it has the same appeal for people as being in a band,” he said.

“When you go to see stand up you don’t know what you’re going to get any more – you hope to have a laugh but you don’t know where those laughs are going to lie.

“It’s somewhere in between going to see a band and going to the theatre, it’s a feeling like you’ve seen both and that makes it even more memorable.”

n Jimeoin Down Under is on BBC2 tonight, 10pm.