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STAND-UP JIM JEFFERIES SEC Clyde Auditorium, Glasgow, Sun 21 Jan
He’ll never be everyone’s cup of comedic tea, but Jim Jefferies gives the impression that he probably doesn’t really give a stuff about what people think. Still, even the anti-JJ brigade, of which there are plenty paid-up members, would have hooted in support of him l ipping the bird at Piers Morgan who had gone into full-on Trump- apologist mode on Bill Maher’s talk show. The former UK resident has performed
personal shows about his close shave with cancer, being part of the porn industry, that time he was held bound and at machete-point in a Manchester l at and, more recently, the difi culties he has with his partner in being on the same page when it comes to raising their son. Now with The Unusual Punishment Tour, he will be back rattling the cages of those across the political spectrum, having mercilessly taunted the gun lobby on the one hand while skirting the line of decency about sexual assault by celebrities on the other. For those who can’t stand the more
brutal aspects of Jim Jefferies’ act, the bad news is that he fully intends to keep his show on the road for a very long time. As he told The List ahead of his Freedumb tour of 2016, ‘I hope that I have longevity and am still doing theatres when I’m 80. If I still had a strong enough fanbase to keep getting up and doing it, I’d be very happy.’ (Brian Donaldson)
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