Comedy Author Pat Regan on Journey, Romance, and His Dream Trip

And as a New Yorker, he felt significantly linked to Sevigny’s episode. “Chloë, to me, is an icon of find out how to do New York proper,” he stated. “She is what all of us faux to be after we’re in New York. It’s quick, it’s eclectic, and there are such a lot of totally different worlds inside this one massive metropolis… there may be all the time a rock to be overturned and regarded below, and the W is a part of that historical past.”

However he stated there was one easy litmus take a look at when it got here to capturing New York Metropolis the best means: “Am I being how Carrie Bradshaw was being? If not, I higher attempt more durable!”

As an individual who steadily travels for work, whether or not or not it’s for his stand-up comedy or as a part of his podcast Search Remedy with Cat & Pat hosted with Cat Cohen, Regan has discovered methods to attach with new locations on his personal phrases.

“For a very long time, I used to be an enormous runner, so I like to see a metropolis by operating by way of it,” he stated. Regan says he used to common round 90 miles per week and sometimes used Google Maps to seek for close by our bodies of water or open areas with none intersections. He’d write the instructions on his wrist, hope they would not sweat off, and hit the street.

A few of his most memorable runs embrace a route simply exterior of Dublin, a jog by way of London’s Hackney borough (together with the arty Shoreditch neighborhood), and a path following the Colorado River in Austin. “I don’t hearken to music—it’s simply my ideas,” he stated. “I wish to really feel fully unencumbered and free. It may be a little bit nerve-wracking in a international space, however I’ve by no means gotten fairly misplaced.”

However as he is gotten a little bit older, Regan has began to modify issues up. “Now I’m on the improper aspect of 35,” he stated. “I’m single, I’m homosexual. So, I’ve began lifting as a substitute of operating.”

Regan additionally likes to discover new locations with a little bit retail remedy. However his focus is much less on discovering a brand new assertion piece and extra on individuals watching and chatting with strangers. “Among the finest conversations of my life are with counter ladies,” he stated. “In an odd sense, they’ve seen all of it.”

As for love, he is had his share of on-the-road “whirlwind romances.” Positive, he is swiped round on courting apps, but it surely’s extra his type to simply get on the market—and it is led to a few of his biggest journey adventures. A few years in the past, amid a record-breaking European warmth wave, he met a person after a present and frolicked together with his associates in hopes of a spark.

“I used to be attempting to elucidate to the British those that within the U.S., our air conditioners make it colder—they don’t seem to be simply decor,” he stated. “There was a tenor of insanity that elevated all through the journey as I acquired hotter and warmer.”

Ultimately, Regan realized it was 4 a.m., and he had a 7 a.m. flight to catch. 

On that very same journey, whereas he was touring, he needed to briefly go away the U.Ok. and return late as a consequence of some customs paperwork. Nevertheless, that additionally meant he acquired to make his first journey to Paris—however he may solely keep for 12 hours.

“I couldn’t sleep, so I walked across the homosexual nightlife space and right into a bar, the place I wouldn’t have referred to as myself the belle of the ball,” he stated with fun. “It was so late at night time that I ended up making associates with these Russians that had been type of not well-liked both. However beggars can’t be choosers. So then I had one croissant and took the prepare again to England to do a present.”

Even when a visit seems to be a misadventure, simply attending to journey continues to be a thrill to Regan. In spite of everything, that European tour was his first time exterior of the nation. Rising up in a household of six, he did not get the prospect to journey fairly often when he was younger. And when he was attempting to interrupt into TV writing and comedy, cash was naturally tight then, too. However now he can take the journeys he is all the time needed to.

“I really feel like I have never seen what I wish to see,” Regan stated. “I wish to prioritize journey.”

Some checkboxes on his journey wishlist embrace: Visiting his finest pal’s residence nation of Australia, a visit again to Europe (perhaps when it’s not so sizzling), and Japan. 

“The world can begin to really feel so small, so it’s nearly getting exterior of your actuality, altering your perspective, and being like, ‘I am very insignificant in an effective way’,” Regan stated. “There’s a lot to be seen!”