Jim Jefferies
Australian comedian and actor
36
APPEARANCES
19
PODCASTS
Sep 23, 2026
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
jet, and I have a fondness
Jim JefferiesGUEST
That all happened because we had one disabled character, and then we thought what we'll do is we've got to fucking populate the world.
Jim JefferiesGUEST
It w- it was fantastic, and we ended up on the Great Barrier Reef, and I took my family to Port Douglas.
7 MINS LATER
OpieHOST
Were you fucking horrified when that happened for the first time? Like, what the fuck's going on? No,
Jim JefferiesGUEST
it came out a little bit, and a little bit more, and a little bit more, and then it just became a way of life.
Jim JefferiesGUEST
I was all good, but there was an airport, you've eaten something, and I've got to have a shit amongst the general public.
speaker_7GUEST
[cheers]
Jim JefferiesGUEST
A couple of months ago, he's six years old, the, uh, school asked for me and his mother to come down, and they say, "There's a problem with Hank." And I go, "What the [beep] done? What has he done? What has he done?" They go, "The problem is Hank can't read.
Jim JefferiesGUEST
The other kids can read, but Hank can't read." And I went, "At 40 grand a year, that sounds like a you problem, not a fucking me problem."
speaker_7GUEST
Yeah.
Jim JefferiesGUEST
And I got told by people, "If he doesn't go to preschool, he'll be left behind." Well, he's three.
Jim JefferiesGUEST
And then afterwards I said, "Look, I don't normally do this, and I'm sure you're all working tomorrow, right? But if you want tickets for the show tomorrow, just come up to me before I leave, and I'll, I'll...
26 MINS LATER
Adam CarollaHOST
Like, they just went like, "Uh, how are you gonna explain this to the George family, uh, George Floyd's family, that you made a George Floyd..." It's like, the other guy was a taxpayer with a, with a nice family who created jobs, and no one really gave a shit that there was a joke about him.
speaker_1UNKNOWN
[laughing]
Jim JefferiesGUEST
I go, "Let me see it." So she pans around, and I think I'm gonna see, you know, some little, little ch- Chihuahua, whatever the hell those dogs are.
Jim JefferiesGUEST
I'm, I'm immediately staring at, like, this hellhound, this just massive dog, and it looks...
Jim JefferiesGUEST
I'm like, "Is that a pit bull? Please tell me you didn't get a pit bull." She's like, "It's not a pit bull.
speaker_1UNKNOWN
[laughing]
Jim JefferiesGUEST
But you know that Jeffrey Rush and Hugh Jackman, they're all going to rock up and bring their other friends.
21 MINS LATER
BushieHOST
Don't spoil it.
Jim JefferiesGUEST
In America, it's a book that they all learn in school and all that type of stuff, right? And so, I'm there with my 13-year-old son, and I'm like...
7 MINS LATER
BushieHOST
Yeah.
Jim JefferiesGUEST
Uh, look, it, I'm just glad that Trump can't be voted back in because who would perform now?
Jim JefferiesGUEST
You can go up there, buy your own shirt, and choose your group if, if you're that bold.
speaker_17UNKNOWN
[laughs]
Jim JefferiesGUEST
And, and we have some, we have some shirts that I can't explain the joke too much, but the shirts are purchased in what group you are in the looks department, right?
Jim JefferiesGUEST
You can go up there, buy your own shirt, and choose your group if, if you're that bold, or you can have the 13-year-old boy decide for you.
Jim JefferiesGUEST
And then every sort of third Christmas, my wife's British, so we do one at home, one in the UK, one in Australia.
Jim JefferiesGUEST
And so with the game show, with the tours, with everything, I would say probably about six weeks out of the year I probably spend in Australia.
16 MINS LATER
Jim JefferiesGUEST
... surely he turned around occasionally and saw the biker in the leather chaps, you know, who incidentally died from AIDS in the '90s, right? The, the, the band was a gay band.
Jim JefferiesGUEST
I always liked that about them, that they were fun and campy and all that type of stuff.
Jim JefferiesGUEST
They're all dressed in different outfits," and, you know, they were never in your face about it.
19 MINS LATER
MikeyHOST
Yeah
Jim JefferiesGUEST
I remember seeing, you know, Samantha Kerr warming up on the sideline, and people thinking, "Oh, she's coming on.
Jim JefferiesGUEST
You know what I mean? But, uh, you know, the World Cup here, it's, it's been brilliant actually.
Jim JefferiesGUEST
Um, uh, I thought it was gonna be a bit of a, a, a shitshow because of, uh, you know, uh, uh, ICE agents and stuff like that-
MikeyHOST
But why?
Jim JefferiesGUEST
And it, uh, on the bottom story of the pier are all these fancy restaurants along Sydney Harbor, right? They're all, like, lined up along Sydney Harbor.
Jim JefferiesGUEST
And so we went down the lift, we started walking through the car park, and so it's just a car park with a few sort of, like, exit doors to different shops and stuff along the pier.
Jim JefferiesGUEST
And, uh, I said, "Oh, what restaurant are we going to?" He goes, "Oh, we're going to this Chinese restaurant.
5 MINS LATER
JharvsHOST
And
Jim JefferiesGUEST
then in Britain... they're my favourite hecklers, the Brits, is because they try to out-joke you and give you a bigger punchline than you had.
Jim JefferiesGUEST
And I'm always like, if their punchline hits, that's a free laugh in the room.
Jim JefferiesGUEST
As long as we're having lots of laughs in the room and everyone's having a good time, I don't care where they're coming from.
JharvsHOST
Have you been to Tassie before?
Jim JefferiesGUEST
It's the fourth season and seven are giving away a lot of money this season because people have figured out the show.
Jim JefferiesGUEST
The first couple of seasons were just like people who wanted to be on telly or people who wanted to watch me for a bit or, you know, whatever, right? But no one knew what the show was.
Jim JefferiesGUEST
Now that people have watched the show, we're getting like actual intelligent people.
Jim JefferiesGUEST
It was probably very exciting for the listeners to hear that song without me talking over the top of it and irritating them while they're trying to think.
Jim JefferiesGUEST
That's what I get every time is like, I'd enjoy the show, but you won't stop talking over the...
Jim JefferiesGUEST
We do those jokes afterwards because I don't want to bother people actually getting the questions.
speaker_5UNKNOWN
I'm zapping out.
Jim JefferiesGUEST
I would like to do an early show and an even earlier show, right? I've got some shows coming up in Calgary and one of them sold out at the 7 o'clock and they went, oh, the theatre doesn't want to do a 10 p.m.
CrammyHOST
On that, you being booked for a gig like that, have you been asked to go back to your old primary school or high school and do a talk of sorts? Well, this is a
Jim JefferiesGUEST
thing, right? Now, St Ives High, near Terry Hills there out in Sydney, the most famous people to come out of St Ives High, me, Ellie Overton, who won a bronze in the Commonwealth Games, much respect.
Jim JefferiesGUEST
There's a guy called Rich Thompson who was a relief pitcher for the Oakland A's.
CrammyHOST
The Australians chanting at the football
Jim JefferiesGUEST
I would like to do an early show and an even earlier show, right? I've got some shows coming up in Calgary and one of them sold out at the seven o'clock and they went, oh, the theater doesn't want to do a 10 p.m.
MikeyHOST
Yeah.
Jim JefferiesGUEST
I remember seeing, you know, Samantha Kerr warming up on the sideline, and people thinking, "Oh, she's coming on.
Jim JefferiesGUEST
She's been injured forever," and people losing their, their S over that, you know what I mean? But, uh, you know, the World Cup here, it's, it's been brilliant actually.
Jim JefferiesGUEST
Um, uh, I thought it was gonna be a bit of a, a, a shitshow because of, uh, you know, uh, ICE agents and stuff like that, and people-
MikeyHOST
The whole Trump thing.
Jim JefferiesGUEST
I don't wanna get too political, but the ICE agents is a, is, is a fairly, um- Look, I, I, I'm a, I'm, I'm a big believer in legal immigration.
Jim JefferiesGUEST
I remember seeing, you know, Samantha Kerr warming up on the sideline, and people thinking, "Oh, she's coming on.
Jim JefferiesGUEST
She's been injured forever." And people losing their, their S over that, you know what I mean? But, uh, you know, the World Cup here, it's, it's been brilliant actually.
Jim JefferiesGUEST
Um, uh, I thought it was gonna be a bit of a, a, a shitshow because of, uh, you know, uh, uh, ICE agents and stuff like that-
Jim JefferiesGUEST
I don't wanna get too political, but the ICE agents is a, is, is a fairly, um...
speaker_7UNKNOWN
Yeah
Jim JefferiesGUEST
Then I casually mentioned it in passing to my wife, and she just stood up and went, we're going to Villa Rosa.
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