RE-RELEASE - Jim Jefferies
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Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
45 min
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5 chapters
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How did Jim Jefferies get introduced and what’s his early rapport with the hosts?
Jim Jeffries from Australia. From Australia. Is that your best Australia? Australia can't really be too hard. You have to be very casual about it.
There was an Australian TV show called A Place Called Home, and when I watched that, I had a perfect Australian accent. And then if I don't hear it, I don't, you know. Well, I could try it now. They sort of flatten their vibs. Everything goes down like that, Lassie. And Jim Jeffries.
Yeah, Jim Jefferies, good time.
Great, great stand-up.
I see him a lot at the Comedy Store. We bullshit backstage and got a big following out there. Huge stand-up. A lot of stories that are completely bananas.
Yes.
So caught us off guard with a few and one about his dad that's cracked up. But I'm excited. You're excited. And here he is, Jim Jefferies. Jim Jefferies.
Yes.
I'm very thankful. Is the movie already started? Is this started?
No, we're halfway through, to be honest. We don't have any structure or introduction or anything. We'll do all that later.
content or anything. Well, obviously, I've met David many times before. I've met you in passing, Dana, but I'm a big fan, mate. I'm very excited to do this.
I saw you go crush. We met at John Lovitz's comedy club, right? That's correct. That's correct. Yeah. A while back. And you were kind of unassuming. You had your accent and everything, whatever. And it was kind of a rough room because that high stage and everything.
That's like three stories. Yeah.
Then you kill and I go, God, this fucking guy, man. Got some game.
Oh, thank you.
I don't know when that, where that was. Yeah, Jim Jeffries got games. Yeah, Jeffries is, that's you, powerful and funny. I was going to ask you that. You were one of the first that really walked outside, stepped outside the lines in some of your early specials. Yeah. Comedians love it because I don't do that, but I love when I see someone who's literally saying exactly... what they want to say without any censorship. It's very, you do it.
I think the thing that for me early on was just saying cunt a lot was the big difference from the American accent. I've always said I'm the Rosa Parks of the C word, right? Because before A lot of people are saying that. A lot of people. Before me, there was a restriction. You couldn't say it in the comedy club. You could say whatever you want. So my first comedy special for HBO, I swear to God, right? I swear to God, I had a light at the back of the room and it was a 15-minute mark. You know how us comics, we normally have a light when we have five minutes left to get off the stage. I don't know if many people know that, but that's what we have. We have a light at the end of the room to tell us when to get off the stage.
I had a light that at 15 minutes lit up, and that meant I was allowed to say the word cunt because HBO said to me – The ratings go in 15 minute increments. We want people to like you. We don't want them to turn off in the first 15 minutes. So you can't say the C word for the first 15 minutes. So I had a light at the back and at 15 minutes, I say, aren't pandas a bunch of cunts? And then I was off to the races. Can I plummet the ratings now?
Let me ask you a question. Are you like if an American hears either a British or Australian accent saying the word can't, you know, it's softer to our ears. Are you guys enamored as Australia? Should I go down there and play little tiny clubs? Not like I'm a huge star anymore, but I would play down there. Are they enamored by the way we our accents are like we are enamored of Australian and British accents?
The short answer is no, we're not. You asked for a big star down there. Your movies are massive. The difference is we grew up watching your TV all the time. So we've seen American sitcoms since we're, that's why there's so many American, Australian actors doing American accents in films and not the other way, you know? So we grew up watching his stuff, which is weird because when I was growing up, I was a huge fan of like Wayne's World, right? Loved Wayne's World. Didn't know it was a sketch from SNL because we never had SNL in Australia.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
How did Jim Jefferies get introduced and what’s his early rapport with the hosts?
0:00–6:18
2
How did Jim describe breaking boundaries in early specials and using shock language?
6:18–14:47
3
What stories did Jim share about performing, sitcom Legit and taking a friend to a brothel?
14:47–29:52
4
How does Jim explain why Australian actors excel at American accents and share Russell Crowe stories?
29:52–42:37
5
How has Jim’s touring life evolved and what makes the UK comedy circuit unique for him?
42:37–45:32