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Jim Jefferies is at a career and life crossroads. Aren’t we all in 2020? For Jefferies, though, his personal and professional lives were colliding with his younger rebellious brand when he filmed his newest special, Intolerant, for Netflix. He had just wrapped his weekly Comedy Central talk show, The Jim …
After three seasons, The Jim Jefferies Show will come to a close on Comedy Central later this month. “The Jim Jefferies Show will air its final episode on Nov. 19, concluding a brilliant three-year run on Comedy Central,” said a spokesperson for Comedy Central. “We thank Jim and the team for …
We’re only a week away from the comedy industry’s annual confab in Montreal for Just For Laughs, and JFL has announced which big stars the fest will fete the most with Comedy Awards. This year’s recipients: Kevin Hart (Generation Award), Jim Jefferies (Stand-up Comedian of the Year), Hasan Minhaj (Breakout Comedy Star of the Year), Amanda …
I’m a fan of Jim Jefferies and a bigger fan of his weekly Comedy Central series. Which makes his 2018 Netflix special that much more disappointing. This Is Me Now feels like a cash grab, and filming it in Britain makes feel even more so, as the setting allows him …
The New York Comedy Festival turns 15 this November, and its quinceañera will celebrate with headlining performances by Bill Burr, Jimmy Carr, David Cross, Desus & Mero, Dan Harmon’s Harmontown, Gabriel Iglesias, Jim Jefferies, Anthony Jeselnik, Jo Koy, Bert Kreischer, Marc Maron, Jason Mewes, Tracy Morgan, Conan O’Brien, Yvonne Orji, Bryan …
This is a special edition of Last Things First, recorded live during Clusterfest 2018 in San Francisco. Comedy Central was kind enough to ask me to host a series of Clusterfest panels for the media that they called fireside chats. In this session, I welcomed Jim Jefferies, Rachel Feinstein, Nikki …
No sophomore slump for Comedy Central’s Clusterfest. The second annual comedy, music and arts festival planned for the first weekend in June will be headlined by Amy Schumer, The Lonely Island and both present and past hosts of The Daily Show in Trevor Noah and Jon Stewart. Clusterfest 2018 also …
The Jim Jefferies Show has pleasantly surprised since its start earlier this year on Comedy Central. On last night’s episode, Jefferies did what hardly anyone else in late-night comedy has dared to do — take the jokes about Harvey Weinstein and reflect them back upon himself. After skewering Weinstein, Hollywood …
You’ve seen or most likely listened to a Comedy Central podcast before. The TV network has uploaded episodes of its half-hours or audio extras from network talent to iTunes and elsewhere in the past. But now Comedy Central is making it more official with an official podcast network. Comedy Central’s …
Great news for fans of this summer’s new late-night entries on Comedy Central, as the network announced during the summer TCAs that it has granted extensions to both The Jim Jefferies Show and The President Show through the end of 2017. The Jim Jefferies Show, which has aired at 10:30 …
