Jim Jefferies: Intolerant

I love all of his previous specials. This one is just bad.

I don't know about these purists here that say this is sub-par Jefferies, to me, this was funny all along, which is what a stand-up is supposed to be.. I loved it! Ps: I got the hots for Jim, so maybe I'm just too partial to like him.

The 2020 stand-up comedy special "Jim Jefferies: Intolerant" was definitely something of a crazy ride.

Sure, I have stumbled upon Jim Jefferies before whilst perusing stand-up comedy specials, and he is definitely a funny man. So of course, I needed no persuasion to sit down here in 2022 to watch "Jim Jefferies: Intolerant", as I stumbled upon it on Netflix.

And yeah, Jim Jefferies delivers once again. "Jim Jefferies: Intolerant" is a great and hilarious show from beginning to end. And I absolutely love the way he starts off a joke and a story, and then strays on to something else entirely, and manages to return to the original story or joke and finish it, while having managed to throw in something totally random but very funny still.

The material in "Jim Jefferies: Intolerant" was good and well-written. The way that he uses his own life as a basis for the punchline and builds upon it is just a stroke of genius. I was more than entertained throughout the course of this stand-up comedy special, and I had a great many good laughs.

If you enjoy stand-up comedy, then "Jim Jefferies: Intolerant" is definitely well-worth sitting down to watch.

My rating of "Jim Jefferies: Intolerant" lands on a seven out of ten stars.

It's a decent standup special, but I didn't laugh quite as much as I did during some of his previous shows. Jokes complaining about a different generation are kind of dull for me personally, and that goes for older generations complaining about younger ones and younger generations complaining about older ones. He didn't really bring anything new or fresh to the table in this regard, in my opinion. The stuff about comedic boundaries changing was genuinely insightful and well done though, as it is something that the world is dealing with and trying to balance at the moment. Overall it's a decent way to kill an hour, but I was still a tiny bit disappointed.

I saw him perform this routine live in Birmingham in Dec 2019. It was better, and had extra jokes which appear to have been cut out, notably his Michael Jackson routine, which was the best bit! Legalities maybe? The special suffers for it, as it will be remembered as one of his weakest in comparison to his other releases, which is a shame, as his crowd work was great live. It just doesn't seem to have captured the magic from the night.