The thing where I thought I made it was when I paid my house off. It wasn’t actually a moment on stage – it was the first bit of financial security. It was the first time I looked at my house, and it was all paid off, and I thought, ‘Alright. Jokes paid for this.’ Jim Jefferies Read Quote
I think the difference between America and Australia is very simple. It’s 20 million people versus 350 million. Jim Jefferies Read Quote
I do enjoy having researchers and writers around me because I am getting a lot of different influences now from the opposite sex, different races, people of different ages, who are helping write the routines. So I am seeing things from other people’s perspectives, which I never really had to do before. Jim Jefferies Read Quote
There’s a theory with comedy that you shouldn’t do anything that’s too topical in your specials because people won’t be able to watch them in five years. But I look at Trump in the same way I look at Mr. T. I can watch comedy jokes about Mr. T in the ’80s and still understand what they’re talking about. Jim Jefferies Read Quote
I used to watch everybody’s stuff, but I found I would get slightly influenced by the other comics. I try to avoid it now. Jim Jefferies Read Quote
I used to be of the opinion that it didn’t matter who you voted for. The world balanced itself out and kept on truckin’. Which is true, but politics are still important. Jim Jefferies Read Quote
There’s a fallacy with stand up comedy, which is, people come up to comedians, and they go, ‘You say what I think but I’m not brave enough to say,’ and that’s not particularly true. Jim Jefferies Read Quote
What comedy does, for the most part, is it voices something so simplistically that people will agree with us, and then once you agree with something, you go, ‘That’s what I think.’ So what you’re trying to do is try to voice arguments that people get on a side with. So they can use that, maybe at a dinner party, themselves. Jim Jefferies Read Quote
The difference between comedians and the general public is that we are meant to be funnier. And when you’ve got politicians giving material so easy that the general public is doing it, what is the necessity of us anymore? Jim Jefferies Read Quote
