[Humour] Jim Jefferies tonight..

[WATFORD zero]

I particularly liked this routine



But I do think they should have warnings about his live act.

WARNING - Risk of exploding gammons
WARNING - Not for Snowflakes

that sort of thing

 

[curly69]

Very clever, and very funny I love him.

 

[The Clamp]

I really enjoyed him. A huge difference performance wise form the drunken routine I saw at Uderbelly, Brighton in 2007.

He no longer drinks so he holds it all together very well. Still stuff that some would find offensive but he’s much cleverer than just a string of deliberately provocative rants.

His piece tonight on reverse gay conversion therapy was superb.

Good crowd, good show. Really enjoyed it.

And he’s married to a lass from Burgess Hill, which he was also very funny about.

 

[BadFish]

I particularly liked this routine



But I do think they should have warnings about his live act.

WARNING - Risk of exploding gammons
WARNING - Not for Snowflakes

that sort of thing

Total Genius.

 

[Motogull]

I went. A solid, more polished routine than when I saw him in Hastings 10 years or so back.

Andrew Maxwell was excellent too.

 

[Stumpy Tim]

He was excellent - better than his last Netflix special. The warm-ups were a bit hit and miss, the Irish guy being better than the Canadian.

 

[Hudson Hawk]

He was excellent - better than his last Netflix special. The warm-ups were a bit hit and miss, the Irish guy being better than the Canadian.

Agree with that although I missed the start of the Canadian guy because of the drinks queues.

Established acts can sometimes go stale and tbf it must be quite hard to come up with consistently funny material, but Jim smashed it and was hilarious!

 

[The Clamp]

He was excellent - better than his last Netflix special. The warm-ups were a bit hit and miss, the Irish guy being better than the Canadian.

Yeah, Canadian guy thought announcing every word majestically with his arms outstretched was enough in itself, I didn’t think so. But he had some funny lines here and there.

 

[Arthur]

Very much enjoyed it. Jim was excellent and I enjoyed both the warm up acts.

His revelation at the end about the Dome not booking him because of his material was a bit odd. I've seen Jimmy Carr at the Dome who did jokes about HIV. Oh well it backfired on them as it looked pretty much a sell out from where I was sitting.

Have been holding off watching his last Netflix special in case it was the same material. Will give that a watch this evening.

 

[Mellotron]

I particularly liked this routine



But I do think they should have warnings about his live act.

WARNING - Risk of exploding gammons
WARNING - Not for Snowflakes

that sort of thing

Was about to post exactly this video. It's such a good bit of stand up.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Andrew Maxwell was excellent too.

I was stuck on a train for an hour or so outside Tottenham Hale with him many years ago…must have been early 00s. Never heard of him at the time but everyone in the carriage was discussing what they were attempting to get to and he said he had a gig….which turned out to be his own.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

It’s the style of comedy you sign up for at a JJ gig (and 75% of his peers in the US circuit). It’s like going to a Michael McIntyre gig and being annoyed at how family friendly it is.

Comedy, remember. Not real life.

Yup, I was giving his material a review.
0/10 at best for comedy.

 

[Stato]

Very much enjoyed it. Jim was excellent and I enjoyed both the warm up acts.

His revelation at the end about the Dome not booking him because of his material was a bit odd. I've seen Jimmy Carr at the Dome who did jokes about HIV. Oh well it backfired on them as it looked pretty much a sell out from where I was sitting.

That surprised me too. Admittedly, Jefferies is not so much near the knuckle as halfway up the arm. He has told very explicit jokes and stories that are not for everyone, but he is definitely on the right side of arguments about minority rights. He is very clever about the way he reduces prejudice to its basic stupidity, e.g. his bit last night about gay conversion therapy and his previous bit about God being drunk at a party.

He said that they didn't want him because of jokes he had told in the past. Seems a bit knee jerk when Frankie Boyle's on there in September!

 

[WATFORD zero]

Yup, I was giving his material a review.
0/10 at best for comedy.

I'm interested that you gave him 0/10 as I've enjoyed all the stuff of his that I've seen. Can you give a link to the material of his that you based your review on, as I'm interested whether it was a particularly poor performance or whether our views on comedy really are diametrically opposed. Thanks

 

[Stato]

I'm interested that you gave him 0/10 as I've enjoyed all the stuff of his that I've seen. Can you give a link to the material of his that you based your review on, as I'm interested whether it was a particularly poor performance or whether our views on comedy really are diametrically opposed. Thanks

I read that as just a review of the heckler retort that @Hugo Rune had quoted. If I'm right, I'd agree that the response is not particularly funny, but I'd add that it's not actually material, just a heavy handed means of shutting down someone who was derailing his show. His extended response to the poor fool who heckled last night was a lot more nuanced and very funny.

 

[The Clamp]

Mic drop bitch was brilliant.

I have a feeling a particular part of the sign language routine would have offended some of the less hardy souls on here