Jim Jefferies: Intolerant

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.

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.

Jim is a good story teller. Material was average but disseminated in a way that allowed it to rise above itself.

Older comedians portraying themselves as victims of millennial culture is getting a little over done, Bill Burr/Ricky Gervais etc. Just spit out the edgiest jokes you have, we don't need the extended meta-commentary as a joke in place of actual jokes.

I would have given 8/10 but Jim was looking a little pudgy to me.

Compared to his early work, which I found genuinely funny, this felt very mainstream and safe.

He drops a couple of C words here and there, but even that felt forced, as if he was trying to stay 'edgy'.

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.