Jim Jefferies

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496 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade · RE-RELEASE - Jim Jefferies · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

Makes sense.

I went and did musical theater at school.

And then there was literally like a talent scout came to one of the shows and said he could be a tenor.

And we don't have many tall tenors.

And that's a really like a hard thing in the opera company.

And so they sent me off to singing lessons with this guy called Richard Gill, who was the head of the chorus master in Australia.

I sound like an old person talking about relatives you've never met.

And I studied for a while.

And then when I was 17, I was put in the Australian opera in the chorus for one production of the Flying Dutchman, which was Wagner.

And so I was just like, like, I was literally singing in German, didn't know a fucking word of what I was saying.

I would just buy a German.

Holy shit.

Well, I was just buying a CD and just mimicking the German, you know what I mean?

And then, you know, they'd teach us the songs, but I didn't know what the songs were about or anything.

So after that, I went and studied at WAPA, and WAPA is the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, which is where Hugh Jackman studied, which they had a full scholarship ride to study musical theatre.

By the time I was two years into that, I was already being paid to be a stand-up comic.

And I just quit it in the middle of the night and just went off on tour.

But I always wanted to be a stand-up comic.

But I thought, you can't study that at university.

I wanted to study something in the performing arts.

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