[rock music playing]
[audience cheering]
[Jim Jefferies] Thank you.
Oh, my God.
Sit down.
[audience continues cheering]
All right.
Get down, get down.
We got jokes to tell. Come on.
[chuckles]
All right, let's start this shit.
Bill Cosby.
[audience laughing]
Now, I don't know if you
get all the news here in Nashville...
but I may say something
that's very upsetting to many of you.
It turns out that Bill Cosby is a r*pist.
[audience laughing]
I know. I always used to watch him
on the telly as a kid,
and I always used to think to myself...
"Ah, I bet he doesn't r*pe." But...
[audience laughing]
I've been wrong before
and I'll be wrong again,
'cause it turns out
that his favorite thing is r*pe.
He f*cking loves raping people.
Now, think about your favorite thing.
You might be into sports, gardening, golf.
I don't know what the f*ck you're into.
Now think about it. Now replace it...
with r*pe.
[audience laughing]
And that's how Bill Cosby feels
all day, every day.
Now, I did this routine in Australia,
and they wrote a horrible review
of the show.
And I hate that people forget
that I'm a comedian and that I'm joking.
But I have to do
this little public service announcement
before I do this routine.
[breathes deeply]
I believe, in many ways, r*pe is wrong.
[audience laughing]
I believe, when possible,
you should always avoid raping people.
If you leave the show this evening,
and you're thinking
about raping someone,
Jim Jefferies says no.
[audience cheering and applauding]
But Bill Cosby wouldn't listen to me,
would he? f*ck!
'Cause he f*cking loves raping.
Sixty women have come forward.
Sixty women.
It's a big number, isn't it? Sixty.
Actually, a little bit too big.
The real number is 52.
But I can say what I want up here,
so I just rounded it up to 60.
Who gives a f*ck, right?
Plus, I'm of the opinion,
after you r*pe 20, same prison time,
keep raping, I say.
So...
Seventy women have come forward,
all right?
What happened is,
your Whoopi Goldbergs of this world,
when the accusations first came out,
they were like, "Oh, I don't know
if I believe all these women.
They're trying to ruin his legacy,
or some bullshit like that."
'Cause these r*pes happened
in the '70s and the '80s, and they said,
"What took these women
so long to come forward?"
It's a good question.
I think it's because,
as r*pes go...
they weren't the worst r*pes,
now, were they?
He never held them down
and f*cking r*ped them.
He used to drug them
and finger them a bit.
And I've had
worse Christmases with uncles.
What I'm trying to say is this.
If I was ever going to be r*ped,
I'd like to be r*ped by Bill Cosby.
[audience laughing]
'Cause I've been such a big fan of his
for so many years,
it would just be wonderful to meet him.
How else would I get to meet him,
you know?
Of course, you know,
we're in the same business.
Comedy.
[audience laughing]
So anyway,
he'd drug the girls' drinks
and they'd pass out.
Now, I don't know
the plight of the attractive female.
I don't know the hell they go through
on a daily basis.
But I do know this.
If someone drugged my drink,
I would take it as a compliment.
I'd be in the bar going,
"I'm getting sleepy.
Who likes me? Who is it?"
So he dr*gs the drink, and then
you pass out for about four hours,
then you wake up and you're like,
"What the f*ck happened?"
And the first thing you would see
is that hysterical face of his.
And he'd have a couple of fingers in you.
And he'd be going...
[imitating Bill Cosby]
"With the fingering, and the drugging,
and the raping and the fingering."
Tell me your first reaction
wouldn't be laughter.
You'd be driving home
before the fingering upset you.
You'd be in your car going,
"Bill Cosby! That was really something!
No, he shouldn't have fingered me.
That was wrong."
Now...
I did that comedy routine, which is...
I was joking just then.
I did that in Australia,
and they wrote a very nasty article
about me with the headline,
"You Cannot Joke About r*pe."
- [grunts]
- [audience laughing]
Turns out you can.
I just f*cking did it.
And I think we can all agree
that I nailed it.
[audience cheering and applauding]
You can joke about anything.
A joke doesn't mean intent.
It doesn't mean you've actually done it.
What this lady did was
she wrote an article about me,
and she did a transcript
of the actual routine in the article,
wrote down every word I said.
Now, I hate this.
And I'll tell you why.
Because my whole skill in life
is being able to say horrible things
and still seem likable.
[audience laughing]
You take the whole... [grunts] out of it.
See, if you read my material...
it's a bad read.
[audience laughing]
If you just read,
"As r*pes go, they weren't..."
"Oh, my God!"
See, then she started to write
and say things like,
"It is Jim Jefferies' opinion
that women should be happy
when they're drugged." Not my opinion.
It was a joke I said, not my opinion.
Not something that I think,
something that I think is funny.
There is a big f*cking difference
between things that I think
and things that I think are funny to say.
If you wanna know,
my actual opinion is this.
I don't wanna be r*ped by Bill Cosby.
[audience laughing]
He's a horrible f*cking man
and should go to prison.
That's what my real opinion is.
But if I came out and said that,
you'd go, "Oh, Jim's lost his edge."
[audience laughing]
See, people started protesting
in front of the show,
and people stopped showing up.
Even though the shows were sold out
because I was being deemed
a r*pist or something. Yeah, okay.
You know who never had someone protest
their gigs because of their material?
Bill Cosby!
'Cause you gotta give it to Bill.
What a dignified man.
He never said the swear words.
He never lowered himself...
to my level.
What a class act he is.
[audience cheering and applauding]
'Cause that's why
people went to see Bill Cosby,
'cause they wanted to see
a good, clean, wholesome comedian...
who r*pes...
rather than a person like myself, who is
just going to say horrible things...
and r*pes very occasionally,
like, hardly...
I also got backlash
for my last special, BARE,
which is also on Netflix.
[stutters] I did a lot
of misogynistic jokes on that special.
I'm not gonna hide behind it.
I said a lot of misogynistic things
on BARE,
and I got a lot of complaint letters.
And, look, I find it weird because...
BARE was my fifth special,
and I feel like I've been misogynistic
on all my specials...
and I haven't gotten a complaint letter
till now.
It just proves that, with women,
you really have to f*cking repeat yourself
before they'll listen.
[audience applauding]
I...
I'll defend a misogynistic joke
as I defended the r*pe joke,
as I'll defend any jokes.
It's... I'm joking.
This is a performance. I'm an entertainer.
This isn't a TED Talk.
You're not meant to take
any of this f*cking seriously.
The only time the hate mail bothers me...
is when it's directed at my girlfriend
or they write to her directly,
the mother of my child.
People will write to her
on Twitter or whatever,
and say, "You have no self-respect
going out with Jim Jefferies."
And I hate that.
'Cause she knows that.
She...
She doesn't need you people bothering her.
She has f*cking chores to do.
Now...
[audience laughing]
I got my girlfriend pregnant
after knowing her for six weeks.
I feel... Yeah, no,
it's not good, six weeks.
I think she wants to get married,
and the reason I think that
is 'cause she says that a lot.
And I don't want to get married.
Everyone in my life
is pressuring me into getting married.
I hate when my mother
rings me up and goes,
"Why don't you marry the girl?
You have a child with her."
And I'm like, "Yeah, I've got a kid.
An 18-year commitment.
I've signed onto that
like a bad f*cking phone contract."
I'm a great dad.
I got 15 years left, then I'm f*cking off.
But marriage is until death.
It's a shit contract.
Hundred years ago, the life expectancy
of an American was 52.
Now it's 83.
f*ck that!
[audience laughing]
I've got a life to live!
If I was gonna die at 52,
sure, let's have some company.
I would have got married in the Dark Ages,
when 50% of women died during childbirth.
I would have rolled the dice
on that bad boy.
But she works out every day
and she eats kale just to spite me.
Six weeks, she got pregnant.
Six weeks!
I feel like I missed out on something.
Six weeks is very quick to get pregnant.
I missed out on the new girlfriend.
The new girlfriend's the best time
of your life.
That first three months
of the new boyfriend or girlfriend,
the new relationship,
where the person's f*cking perfect.
And you're like, "Oh, my God...
I love this person."
After a month, you're like, "This..."
You're drinking with her like,
"She's drinking beer.
Do you wanna watch Star Wars?"
And she's like, "I do."
And you're like, "f*cking hell!"
Yeah, and she's getting along
with your friends.
Your mother's like,
"I think she's the one."
You go, "I think she's the one as well."
'Cause women can hold the psycho down
for three months.
For three months, they can walk around
like a functioning member of society.
Showing up at your work parties
and not crying.
At three months and one day,
you come out of the shower,
and she's huddled over your phone
like Gollum. Just...
[audience laughing]
So I went from the new girlfriend,
best feeling in the world,
to dating a pregnant chick.
Now, no one has ever said this
and never recorded anything like this.
No one's ever said it in a public forum.
But the pregnant
are the worst people on Earth.
[audience laughing]
For some reason,
society has told us that they have
some type of glow or some shit.
The pregnant are a bunch of c**ts,
the pregnant.
[audience cheering]
They...
They cry when they're happy,
when they're sad.
You don't know what f*cking cry...
And you ever tried fighting
with a pregnant person in a public place?
[exclaims]
[audience laughing]
Doesn't matter how right you are.
Me and Kate,
she was seven months pregnant,
were walking around the supermarket,
right? Walking around...
and I got some Coco Pops
to put in the trolley.
Now, you call them Cocoa Krispies
in this country.
How different our cultures are. And...
I put the Coco Pops in the shopping cart.
"Trolley."
And, uh...
And Kate picked them up
and put them back on the shelf.
It was very confusing
'cause I'd never seen Coco Pops
go in the opposite direction.
[audience laughing]
And my brain skipped a bit,
and I went, "Uh..."
[exhales]
"I think you made a mistake there, Kate."
And I went to get them back,
and she goes, "You're not having them."
And I went, "But I... I always have them."
And she went, "You're getting fat."
[audience laughing]
So I did my drop-the-mic moment.
I picked up the Coco Pops and went...
And she snapped and went,
"Do you want me to lose this baby?"
And I went,
"Um, f*ck, that was quick!
Of course I do.
You're a f*cking nightmare!"
You ever been in a bar at 4:00 a.m.,
talking to some guy,
and he's telling you
how shitty his life is?
And he's like,
"My dad, my dad's an assh*le.
Didn't even know my dad.
Walked out on my mum
when she was pregnant with me."
And I used to think, "What a d*ck."
And now I'm like...
[grunts]
[audience laughing]
"I'm sure he had his reasons.
Who am I to judge, eh?"
So she gets pregnant.
We got to go to these baby classes.
We go to baby classes at the hospital,
where they teach you
how to put nappies on and shit.
And you swaddle.
You've got [stutters] the dummy,
and you swaddle it.
And then the lady goes,
"That's a good swaddle."
And you go, "I thought it was.
I've been practicing."
Most of it's watching videos
from the '80s.
They put on actual videos.
You're meant to watch
and learn how to parent.
One of the videos we watched
was called Don't Shake the Baby.
Don't Shake the Baby is 40 minutes long.
You don't need to watch
Don't Shake the Baby.
All the information you need is
in the title.
Who picks up a copy
of Don't Shake the Baby
and thinks to themselves, "Oh...
maybe there's more to this.
[stutters] But what if I'm really angry?
What if I'm shaking my wife
and she's holding the baby?"
The course
was basically a Tupperware party.
Trying to sell us shit.
And we bought a car seat, and a stroller,
and this thing you put the bottle in
that steams and sterilizes it.
If you don't have the steamy,
sterilizey machine,
you gotta boil the bottles,
and that's a pain in the ass.
All right, here's a tip.
You don't have to sterilize baby bottles.
I stopped sterilizing Hank's bottles
after two days.
I told Kate I was still doing it.
But I wasn't.
And I'll tell you why.
Because 80% of the time,
he's being breast-fed.
And we never sterilize those tits.
We never had a special
steamy, cleany machine for the tits.
In fact, for the first three weeks
after the birth,
her c**t was all f*cked up,
so I used to jack off on the tits.
And he'd wake up
- and have a midnight feeding.
- [audience laughing]
And what I'm saying is,
no one's dead, are they?
Like...
Sure, he gets cold sores
and whatnot. But...
he's different.
He's a unique little boy. Leave him alone!
So anyway...
when you impregnate a person
that you don't know particularly well,
sometimes, when it comes to parenting,
you're not on the same page.
So me and Kate were watching 60 Minutes,
or 20/20 or something,
and they were doing
a story on vaccination,
and I turned to Kate and said,
"People who don't vaccinate their kids
are a pain in the ass."
And Kate said, "Hank's not vaccinated."
And I went, "Oh, f*ck."
You know when someone says something
and your brain goes,
"That's gonna take up a lot of your time"?
'Cause the dynamic
of our relationship is this.
I go on the road and tell jokes
to make the family money.
She's meant to stay home
and make sure that Hank doesn't die.
And, between me and you,
I think she's doing a shit job.
And I said, "Why isn't he vaccinated?"
And she goes,
"I think it leads to autism."
And I went, "Oh, what medical evidence
do you have that it leads to autism?"
And she said, "Jenny..."
And I said,
"Don't even f*cking say 'McCarthy.'
Don't even say it,
'cause that's not evidence,
that's Jenny McCarthy.
I have nothing against the woman.
She's a comedian and a Playmate.
They're my two favorite types of people.
But I don't get my medical advice
from them. It's one of my things."
And she went, "But her son's autistic."
And I went, "Is he?
Is he really?
Or is he just Jenny McCarthy's kid?"
[audience cheering]
All right.
"Did we expect a member of Mensa
to fall out of that woman?"
And she said,
"What difference does it make?
No one gets smallpox. No one gets polio."
It's frustrating when they say that,
because you're like, [mockingly]
"Because of f*cking vaccination."
[normal voice] I said,
"And furthermore, my mother had polio."
That's true, Gunta had polio.
My mother can work polio
into any conversation.
You'll be having dinner with my mother
and she'll go, "Ah...
maybe I will have some chocolate cake.
'Cause I couldn't when I was young.
I had polio."
I believe that my mother secretly loves
the fact that she had polio,
'cause polio does a lot of heavy lifting
for her shit personality.
[audience laughing]
Anyway, so we fought,
and we fought, and we fought,
and I didn't win.
Can't win every argument.
Hank's not getting vaccinated.
So cut to three weeks later,
we're doing Season 2 of Legit,
and I had to do a medical...
- [man whistles]
- Oh, thank you.
[audience applauding]
Um...
I think we were
the only ones who liked it.
I, uh...
We're doing Season 2 of Legit,
and the network are trying
to insure me for $8 million.
That's how much a season costs.
So I have to do a studio physical.
And they're insuring me in case I die,
'cause the show would've ended.
Or if I got some mental problem
and started stabbing people.
That would also be a problem.
It's like a three-hour physical.
I'm jogging on treadmills,
and psychological tests...
I'm jogging on this treadmill
with all these things on me
and this tube coming out of my mouth.
I get off,
and the doctor's writing something down.
And I thought,
"I'll slip it into conversation,"
and I went, "Hey.
It's, um...
It's not that important
to vaccinate kids, is it?"
And she went,
"Only if you want them to live."
Right?
[chuckling]
She didn't even look up, right?
And I said, "Are you serious?"
And she goes, "Let me put it this way.
I would not let my children
play with an unvaccinated child."
So I thought,
"That's all the information I need."
So behind Kate's back...
and this is super illegal...
and involves
forging her signature three times...
I booked Hank in
to get all of his sh*ts on one day,
which the doctor didn't recommend,
but I'm a busy guy.
[audience laughing]
Now, I was about to come home
to pick up Hank
to take him to get his vaccination sh*ts.
I knew that Kate was going to be home
with Hank,
so I knew we were
about to have the biggest fight ever.
You know when you're
about to fight with your partner,
but they don't know you're about to
have a fight,
so you have the upper hand?
So what you do is, you think horrible shit
about that person all day,
so in case they cry,
you can enjoy yourself.
[audience laughing]
No matter what happens,
I will always say this.
Kate is the nicest human being
I have ever met.
For niceness, I can't fault her.
[stutters] She is just a good soul.
She only sees the good in people.
She will never say a bad word
about another human being.
And... so it's weird.
So I'm driving home,
I'm trying to think bad thoughts
about the nicest person on Earth,
and it's really difficult.
So I'm in my car like, "f*cking Kate.
Who the f*ck does she think she is,
f*cking...
keeping the house nice?
f*cking bitch.
She left that plate in the sink.
That was a f*cking nightmare.
I remember that.
Oh, no, that was me. I did that.
But she cleaned it up,
and that's enabling,
and that's f*cking bullshit right there."
So I came back just f*cking steaming.
"All right, here we f*cking go.
Game's on."
I come home, she's sitting down,
lovingly playing with our child,
and she looks up and she goes,
"Hey, honey!"
And I went, "Don't... f*cking 'honey' me!"
And she said, "What's wrong?"
And I said, "I'll tell you what's right!
Hank's getting vaccinated today,
and there's nothing you can do!"
And I pick up Hank,
and she starts screaming.
He's one,
so he's super attached to his mother.
And he's like, "Mummy, Mummy!"
I'm like, "Your mum
can't f*cking help you now!"
[audience laughing]
I go out to where the car's parked.
I throw him in.
I'm doing him up in his seat.
Kate comes out
and she starts slapping my back.
I'm like, "Get the f*ck off me!"
She dramatically falls to the ground.
I look up, and two of the neighbors
are out of their houses.
They're quintessentially watching me
kidnap a child and beat up my girlfriend.
[audience laughing]
And I'm too far gone now,
so I doubled down and went,
"Get back in your f*cking houses!"
Then I put him in his seat.
I got in the driver's seat
and I f*cking fishtailed out of there.
And Kate's on her knees
and she screams out, "Fine!
But if he becomes autistic, it's on you!"
And I thought,
"Would she consider that a win?"
So anyway...
I take Hank off.
I get him all of his sh*ts.
I bring him home.
And he's definitely autistic now.
[audience laughing]
It's like night and day,
like, the kid before the sh*ts
and the kid after...
Before the sh*ts, he was this lively kid,
afterwards,
I brought him home,
he's sitting in the corner, going...
[screaming]
And I'm like, "Oh, f*ck!
Oh, f*ck, f*ck, f*ck.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
Oh...
Oh, Kate's gonna notice this."
[audience laughing]
And so, I did whatever I did
when I knew I was in trouble. I lie.
So I put Hank in a BabyBjörn.
He's hanging off me like... [screams]
hanging off my chest.
'Cause I couldn't let him
have alone time with Kate,
'cause Kate would see it right away.
I know what you're thinking.
I couldn't keep that up forever.
But I did have a plan.
What I was gonna do was, right,
I was gonna stand near a door
that I knew Kate was gonna come through.
"Look what you did!" Like that.
Okay, so anyway,
I am making light of a situation...
that was... it was horrible, man.
[stutters]
It's nice to make jokes about it now,
but at the time I was distraught.
I didn't sleep for three days.
I couldn't eat.
My brain was on a loop. I was so wired...
I was rocking back and forth.
"Your kid's autistic.
It's all your fault." [mumbles]
So anyway, cut to three days later.
I go to the doctor
to get the results of my physical,
and Hank's dangling off me.
[groans]
And...
the doctor comes in and goes,
"How are we today, Mr. Jefferies?"
And I said, "Not good.
[stutters] You told me to vaccinate Hank.
You said, 'Vaccinate kid, good.'
But this is not good.
[stutters] This used to be a good kid.
Look at this.
f*cking shit kid."
[audience laughing]
And she goes, "Can you calm down?"
I said, "No, I can't,
I haven't slept for three days.
I'm wired, my brain's on a loop,
and I can't turn it off...
because my kid's autistic.
It's all my fault.
[repeating]
My kid's autistic. It's all my fault.
My kid's autistic. It's all my fault."
[breathes heavily]
And she looked at my chart and said,
"Now... you know that you
have a tendency to overreact
because you're on the spectrum."
"You f*cking what, when?"
"You know,
how you have little empathy,
you don't listen when others talk,
and you don't make eye contact."
"I've heard about the eye contact."
She goes,
"There's nothing wrong with Hank.
He's just drugged out right now.
You gave him all of his sh*ts in one day,
which I didn't recommend."
[audience laughing]
Now...
[audience applauding]
It's true that the next day,
Hank was back to his normal self.
There's nothing wrong with Hank.
But it turns out that I'm autistic.
[audience laughing]
I don't know.
I don't know if I believe it,
'cause the spectrum is very broad.
Like, 1% to Ben Carsons or something.
- Uh...
- [audience laughing]
So I don't know. I think a lot of times,
people just diagnose personalities.
I'm a bit of a d*ck. Can't we just...
[chuckles]
But it's weird.
I was 36 when they told me that.
It's weird when you find out
that you're autistic at 36.
'Cause it's big news for me.
[belches] And then I rang up
everyone I knew and told them,
and no one was surprised.
[audience laughing]
I rang up me mum,
and I left a message
on her voice machine like this,
"Mum, you gotta call me back!
I have the biggest news ever!"
And my mum rang me back and went,
"You're getting married."
And I went, "No! I'm autistic!"
And she went,
"Oh, everyone knows you're autistic.
It's not that bad.
When I was a child, I had polio."
[audience laughing]
[audience cheering]
Hank, though...
Hank... Hank's a smart kid.
I think he's smart,
'cause he's the only kid I know.
[stutters] I don't hang out
with other kids.
He's just turned three, but when he
was two, we put him into school.
When he was two,
my friends used to come over all the time,
and I was such a proud father
that I'd be like, "Hank's a genius."
They're like, "How do you know?"
I'm like, "What's that?"
Hank would go, "Red fire truck."
I'd be like, "Damn f*cking straight,
it's a red fire truck.
I taught him that, 'Red fire truck.'"
Anyway, we put him into
this preschool for two-year-olds.
It was a fancy one in Hollywood.
It costs a lot of money,
but the school is kind of cool.
They teach him how to swim.
They toilet train him.
They got this great big turtle
that walks amongst the kids
like a shitty Jurassic Park.
And on the first day,
we went there to meet
the other parents, the teachers,
and the other students and everything.
So I show up early.
Me and Hank at the school.
And we got there early, like an hour
before everyone else.
And we're there, the turtle walks by,
I'm with Hank, and I went,
"Hank, that's a turtle.
Can you say 'turtle'?"
And then this kid walks up
and goes, "Hi, I'm Simon."
"All right. Hello, Simon."
And he goes, "Actually, I'm Simon III.
I'm the third Simon.
My dad's a Simon.
His dad's a Simon, that's my grandfather.
So, one, two, three, third Simon."
"All right."
"When I grow up,
I wanna be a baseball player.
I can't decide which team
because Mum likes the Angels
and Dad likes the Dodgers.
So, there's a bit of conflict at home."
"How old are you, Simon?"
Simon did not give me his age.
Simon gave me his date of birth.
And it turned out that Simon
was three months younger than Hank.
And I turned and I looked
at my f*cking idiot son.
[audience laughing]
And Hank went, "Turtle!"
[audience laughing]
And I said, "Yes, Hank, that's a turtle."
And then Simon went...
"That's a tortoise."
[audience laughing]
I didn't know that before.
Turns out that tortoises just live
on the land,
and turtles live in the water
and on the land.
Simon taught me that!
[audience laughing]
See, one of my old jokes
has come back to haunt me.
If you're a dumb c**t...
[audience laughing]
[audience cheering]
...and your wife or your husband
is a dumb c**t...
guess what your f*cking kids are?
Let's just say
that Kate's not a scientist.
See, I go to these school events
and I meet the other parents,
and I get intimidated
when I meet educated people
'cause I'm not super educated.
So, whenever I meet this guy,
Simon II, that f*cking c**t, right?
Simon III's dad.
He's a thoracic surgeon
and his wife's a pediatrician.
And I'm chatting
to the f*cking Simons, right?
And I can't keep up with the conversation,
but I don't wanna sound dumb,
so I just say shit.
We're talking about politics or something,
and I just went,
just trying to keep up, I went, "Ah...
I reckon they should
try to catch that Benghazi guy."
[audience laughing]
And then, everyone looks at me
like I'm an idiot, and I went...
And Simon II goes,
"Jim, I didn't catch...
What do you do for a living there, Jim?"
And I went, "Um...
I'm a comedian."
And he goes, "Oh, me and my wife,
we just love comedy.
We'd love to catch
one of your shows sometime."
"You wouldn't like it..."
[audience laughing]
He goes, "What type of comedy do you do?"
"Um..."
[huffs]
"Like, um..."
[sighs]
"I say 'c**t' more than anyone else.
- I...
- [audience cheering]
I...
I'm sort of known for saying 'c**t.'
Seven years ago, when I did
my first comedy special in America,
the word 'c**t' was banned
in every comedy club in America,
and then I said 'c**t'
loads on television,
and now, people can say 'c**t'
in comedy clubs. So, I'm...
[audience cheering and applauding]
Basically... basically,
I'm the Rosa Parks of 'c**t.'"
[audience laughing and cheering]
[chuckles]
Now, at this school,
they do toilet train him, right?
But I'm not happy,
'cause it's just female staff
and they're teaching every child
to do sit-down wees.
It's all right for the girls,
but the boys should do a stand-up wee.
They shouldn't be doing sit-down wees.
Now, I like a sit-down wee
as much as the next man...
but there is a place and a time for it.
These are the only times
you should do sit-down wees.
You always have to be at your house.
You can't do it in other people's houses.
It's weird.
You have to be at your house
and drunk.
And then you'll be like,
"Oh, I'm gonna have a lovely sit-down wee.
Oh, yeah, I'll...
I'll treat meself. Whoa."
[chuckles]
"I'll go back downstairs in a second.
I won't fall asleep. Stay awake.
Come on, have a little sit-down wee."
And the other time
you can have a sit-down wee
is if you wake up
in the middle of the night
and you wanna go to the toilet,
but you don't wanna turn the light on
because it'll hurt your eyes
and you'll wake up too much.
[audience applauding]
So, what you do is,
out of respect,
so you don't piss everywhere,
you have a sit-down wee.
And that's always a sleepy...
"All right, you lovely wee."
And because you're sitting,
sometimes your assh*le goes,
- "Are we pooing?"
- [audience laughing]
And you're like, "No, we're not pooing.
We're just having a sit-down wee.
I'm sorry."
"Oh, I thought we were pooing."
"No, no, no.
We'll see you in the morning, assh*le."
[chuckling] And I want him to be good
at the sit-down wee.
It's important to me.
Because... Do you remember
when you were about seven?
A weirdly sort-of-old-age like seven,
and all the boys at school
would go to have a piss.
They'd walk up, and undo their belt,
undo their fly, pull out their d*ck,
and have a piss.
And then there was that one kid,
for whatever reason,
had to have his pants and his underwear
down by his ankles.
[audience laughing and applauding]
And he'd stand there with his assh*le
hanging out of the bottom of his shirt.
"This is how I've always done it."
[chuckles]
Yeah, Hank, he got toilet-trained
just under the wire,
'cause he's three now,
and he got toilet-trained
just before his birthday.
You wanna be toilet-trained
before you turn three.
After that, it gets weird.
There's people in the crowd who have
a 4-year-old who isn't toilet-trained.
And you're feeling shame
right now, I know,
'cause I have friends with 4-year-olds...
See, this is the rule in life.
You're allowed to shit your pants
in the first and the last three years
of your life.
Everything else gets odd, right?
Now, a 4-year-old
shouldn't be sh1tting their pants
'cause you can have a conversation
with a 4-year-old.
And you should never be able
to have a conversation
with someone who's sh1tting their pants.
So my mates are over my house.
I've got pinball machines.
We're playing pinball,
and his son walks up,
and, dead set, this was the conversation.
His son walks up like this.
"Hey, Dad.
You're gonna have to change me, mate.
I just shit my pants."
[audience laughing]
And the dad was so embarrassed,
he was like, "Don't! Stop that! Oh!
Can you please stop sh1tting your pants?"
And the son responded like this...
"Are we gonna
have this argument every time?"
[audience laughing]
So I went to Kate,
'cause he was about to turn three,
and I said, "Kate,
Hank's gotta stop sh1tting his pants."
So, she read a book, and
comes to me with this information.
"You have to start
sh1tting in front of Hank."
And I went,
"I don't wanna shit in front of Hank.
What have I gotta
shit in front of Hank for?"
She goes, "It says in the book
that he's a caveman,
if he's left to his own devices,
he'll shit in his hand
and chuck it at us."
[audience laughing]
And she goes, "He's like,
'Monkey see, monkey do.'
He's gotta see someone using the seat.
He's gotta see someone
using the toilet paper..."
You know, that type of stuff.
And I said,
"Why don't you shit in front of Hank?"
She goes, "He has to see the cock
and balls, or he'll get confused."
For a while there,
I was sh1tting in front of Hank.
Man, it was a big adjustment for me.
'Cause my shits used to be
these quiet, dignified affairs.
I'd be watching the TV,
I'd feel a shit come on...
[audience laughing]
I'd leave to the bathroom...
I'd have my shit,
I'd come back into the living room,
and nine times out of ten,
I wouldn't even tell anyone
where I'd been.
[audience laughing]
But then, my shits
became like family events.
I'd feel a shit come on...
"All right, everyone!
Daddy's got a shit in the chamber!
Who wants to come
and see a professional at work?"
Anyway, I chickened out of it
for like two weeks.
I wouldn't shit in front of Hank.
Then, I got the guts.
So me and Kate are watching TV.
The TV is there. We're on the couch.
Hank's over there playing with his toys.
And I feel a shit come on.
[audience chuckling]
"I've got one."
And she said, "I think it's time."
[whispers] "Okay."
[normal voice] "G'day, mate.
You're coming with me."
And we went into the toilet,
and I shut the door,
and I pulled me pants
and me underwear down.
Now, he knew it wasn't a normal day.
[audience laughing]
He looked very upset.
And I'm f*cking autistic.
[scattered applause]
Neither of us were making eye contact.
We were both...
So I thought,
"I better get down to business."
And I looked at him, I said,
"Oh, all right, son...
first things first.
You gotta tuck your cock and balls
between your legs
so that your penis is facing downwards.
Because where there is poo,
there will always be wee.
Now, because you're a Jefferies,
we don't have
what they call 'big penises.'
[audience laughing]
So, what you do is, you put your legs
a little bit together like that...
to stop your penis from popping back up.
[chuckles] You're seeing it, aren't you?
Yeah.
You see how I look like Mummy now?
Yeah, yeah."
[audience laughing]
Yeah, it's funny, isn't it? It's funny.
Yeah, yeah.
You don't know
what I do for a living, son.
You don't know, but I tell jokes.
I write jokes, you know.
It's always upset me that
no matter how hard I try,
I'll never write anything as funny
as a man putting his cock and balls
between his legs...
and saying, 'I'm a lady, I'm a lady.'
In fact, if you're ever at a party
and you feel like
things aren't going your way...
get behind a tree
and take your pants and underwear off,
tuck your cock and balls
between your legs,
and jump out at a woman and go,
'I'm a lady!' Like that."
[laughing]
Yeah, yeah, it's good. See?
Well, you know, you'll make more friends
than you'll lose."
[audience laughing]
Now...
over the course
of the last six to eight months,
[stammers] my career
has changed somewhat.
Audiences have definitely changed.
It used to just be white guys
the same age as me.
Now, if you look around,
it's pretty 50-50, men and women.
Age groups, races... It's all changed.
And all because
of the g*n control routine.
So the g*n control routine...
[audience cheering]
got...
got seen on so many different platforms,
and all this stuff,
put up and taken down...
that it's actually been seen
five times more
than anything else I've done in my career.
So I'm mostly known for that now.
Which is strange,
'cause people are coming onto the shows
'cause you're hoping
that I'll do some political satire,
or some social commentary
or something Carlinesque...
and how disappointing
this evening's performance must be.
I just did 25 minutes on pooing.
[audience laughing]
Now, the g*n control routine
has been shown in most news outlets.
It was shown in the New Yorker
as an article.
It was shown in the Washington Post
as an article.
It was shown on CNN as news.
And it was shown on Fox
for different reasons.
[audience laughing]
It's also been... it's also now shown to
the law students in Yale.
Like they're meant to learn something
or some shit.
Now, I appreciate all these things.
It's very nice.
I don't know if I deserve these accolades,
or whatever the f*ck they're called,
because, I'm gonna be honest with you...
Um...
I made some of the statistics up.
All right!
[stammering] This isn't real.
Now, I made two things up.
Now, I stand by everything I said
in the g*n control routine,
because most of the things I said
were common sense
about safes and the g*ns in Australia,
and that was correct.
I made two statistics up. Two little ones.
So, I'm gonna fess up right now.
The first one is this.
"If you have a g*n, you're 80% more likely
to be shot by a g*n."
I don't know, maybe.
[audience laughing]
That sounds like a thing, doesn't it?
And the other one was, uh...
"The average security guard
in America earns $16 an hour.
Not a lot of wiggle room
to be a f*cking hero."
It turns out that
the average security guard in America
earns $14 an hour.
I'd like to apologize for those extra $2.
Now, it's very weird 'cause,
over the course of my 15-year career,
I've said horrible things about religion.
That if you are religious,
you believe in God,
that you've wasted your life.
And over the course of 15 years,
from religious groups,
I have received seven pieces of hate mail.
Seven.
Very manageable.
[audience laughing]
I write back.
And I thought that religious people
were the nuttiest c**ts on the planet.
And that was until I gave my opinion
on the Second Amendment.
f*ck me.
[audience laughing]
I had no idea what crazy was
[chuckling] until I f*cking just poked
that hornet's nest with a stick.
[grunts] "I got something to say."
Because on a quiet day,
I receive 20 to 40 pieces of hate mail
from g*n people.
On a quiet day. Keep up.
- I, uh...
- [audience laughing]
[scoffs]
Twenty to forty pieces of hate mail,
and it's always the same.
They always read exactly the same way,
etcetera.
Now, I'm in a unique position.
Because of the hate mail
that I receive on a daily basis,
because I've become
the pinup boy for g*n control...
I can tell you, down to the hour,
when an American g*n owner is happy
and when they're sad.
'Cause they don't send me hate mail
when they're sad.
Like, when there's a m*ssacre
in a school,
it's a very quiet day for me.
Or some 4-year-old
sh**t their mum in the head,
they're like, [mumbling]
"I'm not gonna write anything today."
But the day that I received
the most amount of hate mail,
when I received 782 pieces of hate mail,
and it kind of sickened me a bit
when it happened,
was the day of the Paris sh**t,
where 128 people died.
And that,
to a real fanatical g*n person in America,
that was the best day ever.
They were so happy because
the French have extremely strict g*n laws,
and then people went and shot everyone.
And so, I got letters that read like porn,
like they were from Penthouse Forum.
And every letter read the same way.
Like, "See? It happens in every country.
[audience laughing]
It's not just us.
It's not just us.
If they had more g*ns,
maybe they could've protected themselves."
[audience cheering]
Now, I'm not going
to get into another debate
about whether they had g*ns
or don't have g*ns,
'cause this is all... No one knows.
No one was in that situation.
And then, some people went as far to say
that I was a supporter of !sis.
- Now...
- [audience laughing]
I don't like !sis.
I hate !sis as much as the next man.
[loud cheering]
Now...
I'll tell you the problem with !sis.
The problem with !sis is...
[audience laughing]
is...
you never see them laughing.
They're not a jovial bunch.
That's what religion does.
Religious people are always miserable.
[groaning]
They're just such miserable c**ts,
the !sis.
You never one of them...
When they do the videos
before a beheading, and the guy is like,
[mock Arabic accent] "Before I behead
this man, a little bit about me...
[audience laughing]
I, well, I like Muhammad.
Oh, shit, f*ck!
I love Muhammad.
I love...
I enjoy beheading people, of course.
I like beheading people.
And, uh, I like the comedy of Aziz Ansari.
I like it.
[audience laughing]
I like Aziz.
He's a crazy guy
with modern-day problems."
[normal voice]
Thank f*ck the !sis don't drink!
You don't want drunk !sis.
You don't want some c**t
waking up with seven heads in his bed,
like, "What the f*ck did I do last night?"
[audience laughing]
His friend comes in and goes,
[mock Arabic accent]
"You were so f*cked up last night!
We were out drinking,
and by the way, I was joking...
There was some guy doodling on a napkin,
and I was like, 'Hey,
he's drawing Muhammad,'
and you f*cking lost your shit, man!"
[normal voice] So... politically,
this country is in a very delicate
situation at the moment.
[chuckling]
It could go either f*cking way.
You got... you got two parties.
You got the Democrats and Republicans.
And all they do is talk about
two subjects over and over again.
As long as they
talk about these two subjects,
they're f*cking you up the ass with
other things that you don't notice
because you're so f*cking...
And the rest of the world
isn't as fixated...
Okay, two subjects.
Abortion, g*ns. Abortion, g*ns. Right?
And so, the Democrats,
they wanna have g*n restrictions,
and they don't care about abortion.
And the Republicans,
they hate abortion, and they love g*ns.
And so, we've got a problem here, right?
Because the Democrats are like,
"Come on, you don't need a machine g*n,
and you know you don't.
And if your dad fucks you,
you don't have to keep that. That's cool."
[audience cheering]
And the Republicans are like,
"All life is precious,
unless it steps on my property."
[audience laughing]
[audience cheering]
And then...
you got Donald Trump.
Now... every time
I've recorded a special...
The other specials
I've recorded in America
have been in New York,
San Francisco and Boston.
And everyone's called me
a f*cking p*ssy...
with my liberal agenda.
Well, I'm in f*cking Nashville right now.
[audience cheering]
And if you wanna sh**t me,
now is the perfect time.
[chuckling] There's eight cameras on me.
[audience laughing]
[man whoops]
I think we're good.
I think we're good.
Isn't it sad that the country
has gotten to the stage
that when you buy theater tickets, you go,
"Get ones in the aisle, so we can run"?
Everyone wanted to get the middle.
We're like, "No, you're sitting ducks
in the middle..."
So anyway, Donald Trump.
Now, don't get me wrong.
He's a lot of fun.
[audience laughing]
And there's a little bit of me...
[stuttering]
There's a little bit of me that thinks...
"f*ck it, let's do it.
[audience laughing]
Let's do it and see
how f*cking crazy shit can get."
[audience laughing]
Because he's just...
because what happens is,
he says really simple shit
that means nothing,
and then, f*cking dummies... right?
If you've ever said this sentence,
"I like him
because he's a straight talker,"
you're as dumb as shit.
[audience laughing]
[audience cheering and applauding]
This...
Just because someone says
something simple that you understand...
doesn't mean they're a straight talker.
You can say a complex thing
and be telling the truth.
But, because he goes,
"I'm gonna make America great again."
And you're like,
"I got every word in that sentence."
[audience laughing]
He's like, "I'm gonna build a wall."
"I have a wall at home.
You're a straight talker."
And then he just says shit...
that... it won't happen.
"Gonna build a wall
and Mexico's gonna pay for it."
Who... I haven't heard a Mexican yet go,
"Ah, yeah, we got this."
What are you talking about?
What the f*ck are you talking about?
That's just saying shit.
He's like a kid running
for class president,
who's just walking around, going,
"And we're gonna have two lunches.
- And...
- [audience cheering]
there's gonna be a soda machine
in every classroom.
Nashville football rules!"
But here's where it doesn't get fun.
And that's all. It's good fun.
But here's where it's not fun, right?
What he does is, he preys on fear.
As soon as he...
In the beginning, it was, "Oh, Mexicans,
they're coming over and raping."
And then there was a t*rror1st attack,
and he went,
"Oh, f*ck, I'll go after the Muslims.
We should k*ll the families of Muslims."
Which, by the way,
you're not allowed to do.
And then he started saying,
after the Paris att*cks,
"We should put every Muslim on a register,
and we shouldn't let more refugees
come from Syria,
and the Muslims that live here
on a register..."
[stutters] That means !sis win.
As soon as he says that,
!sis have f*cking won.
Right? Because their plan
to sh**t people in Paris,
that's not their end plan.
They didn't k*ll 128 people and go,
"Ah, well, that's done."
You know what I mean?
It's a recruitment tool.
And the recruitment tool
can only work if hate is bred.
Right? What he does is, he says,
"Oh, we're gonna ban them.
We're not gonna let more in the country.
The ones here have to be on a register."
Now, you're a 16-year-old boy or girl
that's a Muslim living in this country.
You've lived your entire life
in this country.
You've always
considered yourself American.
Then all of a sudden,
someone who could be your president says
you are not welcome here
and that you should be put on a register.
Now, that kid...
How f*cking quickly do you think
that kid could be radicalized now?
Before, he wasn't gonna be
radicalized at all.
[audience cheering and applauding]
So what he's trying to do is,
he's trying to defeat hate with hate.
And hate doesn't beat hate.
It's never f*cking beaten hate.
It just makes more hate.
Now, this might be the most hippie thing
that ever comes out of my mouth...
but it's true.
The only thing that can beat hate is love.
- Now, love doesn't always beat hate, eh?
- [audience cheering]
It doesn't always beat hate,
but it does do something. Right?
Now, think about your own personal life.
Think about a person who hates you
and you hate them.
From now on,
just show that person nothing but love.
I'm not saying that
that person will start loving you.
They'll probably still f*cking hate you.
But one thing will happen.
Eventually, everyone will see them
as the assh*le.
Don't be the assh*le, America.
Don't be the assh*le.
[audience cheering and applauding]
So... to summarize,
you can only beat hate with love.
Now, in saying that, I hate Muslims.
[audience laughing]
Hang on, hang on.
I didn't finish me sentence.
I hate Muslims, Christians,
I hate the Amish, Buddhists,
the snake people, Jews.
I don't know who I've missed here.
Sikhs. I hate all.
Our fight in this world
is not against Islam,
it's against religion.
- Be very clear about this.
- [audience cheering]
'Cause I can tell you this for sure.
No one's head has ever been cut off
in the name of atheism.
No one has ever cut into human flesh,
and looked on camera and gone,
"In the name of nothing!"
[audience laughing]
[audience cheering]
Now, let me be clear about this.
If you're religious...
Some of you might be very nice,
but you're slowing us down.
[audience laughing]
We're trying to move forward,
and you're in the f*cking way. I'm sorry.
See, there's a lie that you'll be told
throughout your life
that will go along
the lines of this...
"We have to save the planet."
There's no bigger lie than
"we have to save the planet."
We don't have to save the planet.
We have to save us, the human race.
The planet does not give a f*ck about us,
and it will be happy when we're gone.
[audience laughing]
We are in the planet's way.
Have you seen those documentaries
where they go,
"This is what New York will look like
one year after the human race dies,"
and it's all covered in vines and shit?
The planet wants us gone.
As soon as we're gone, the planet will go,
"I'm gonna do dinosaurs again."
Right? Like...
So we have to save ourselves
in spite of the planet
trying to kick us the f*ck off.
Right?
Now, imagine that...
the world is a train track
and society is a train.
As society has always had to do,
the train has to move forward.
'Cause if it stops moving forward,
we'll run out of resources
around the train
'cause we'll be stationary.
And the gears will lock up,
and the vines will take over.
So it has to keep going forward.
Now, in this train,
we have the people in the engine room,
who are running the show.
And those people in our society
who run the show are scientists.
These are the people inventing
medicines for you to live longer,
and surgeries for you to live longer
and finding alternative fuel sources.
And engineers that are making machines
that run more efficiently.
Right? Now,
all those people are scientists.
Now, whether you like it or not,
scientists are primarily atheists.
And they're in the front carriage,
dragging us along.
Now, in the second carriage,
we have a bunch of c**ts that
I don't think get f*cking enough flak.
Agnostics.
These f*cking wishy-washy fucks.
[audience laughing]
They're all standing around
in the second carriage, going, "Who knows?
Maybe there is a god.
Maybe there isn't a god.
Maybe your god and your god
are the same god, but...
I know there was a Big Bang,
but who made the Big Bang?
I wouldn't consider myself, you know,
religious, but I am spiritual."
And...
then there's this last carriage,
and the last carriage is 50 times bigger
than the other two carriages combined.
And it's carrying the rest
of the population of the human race.
And it's filled with c**ts
wearing hats for reasons they don't know
and growing beards
because they think they have to.
Some of the women are covering their faces
and cowering.
Everyone's dancing around going,
"Man on a cloud. Man on a cloud."
And there are so many of these c**ts
that the train is hardly f*cking moving!
And the people in the engine room
are like this...
[sighing]
"If I just pull this peg here...
[audience laughing]
[inaudible]
do you know how fast we'd be moving?"
[chuckles]
Oh, well... I'm not gonna change
people's opinions, I guess.
I don't f*cking...
Now...
with the hate mail
that I get from the g*ns,
they always start the same way.
It always makes me laugh.
Every letter starts with, "Hey, buddy,
you shouldn't even say anything.
You're not from here."
[audience laughing]
That is the weakest argument ever.
Okay, as Americans, from now on,
don't use that argument. All right?
Because you're Americans.
It's not like, historically,
you've kept your opinions to yourself.
It's not like I've ever been
in a party in the UK
and there's an American guy there,
and I've heard this sentence,
"Jeez, he's a quiet chap."
[audience laughing]
[chuckling]
You're the loudest people on Earth, so...
And then they always say this,
and this f*cking spins me out.
"Well, I don't expect an Australian
to understand freedom."
[audience laughing]
What are you talking about?
You constantly say "freedom" all the time,
like you're...
"Oh, we're so free. We fight for freedom.
Freedom.
Come to the freedom lounge
at the airport." Like, f*cking what?
You know when you're singing
the national anthem at the baseball
and the person holds the note "free"
a little bit longer than they should,
until all you Americans
f*cking come in your pants?
♪ For the land of the free ♪
[grunting]
[audience laughing]
"We're so free."
Freedom this, freedom that,
free, free, free.
Now, I hate to break it to you,
'cause I don't think you know this.
[sighing]
There are 92 free countries on the planet.
Democratic, free countries.
You are one of them.
Every single English-speaking country
on Earth is free,
and most of the [clicks tongue]
countries are also free.
[audience laughing and applauding]
Now, you're very free.
Don't get upset.
And I have a wonderful...
I love America. I truly do.
I live here and love it.
I have nothing against...
And none of the things
I'm about to mention affect you...
affect me in any way, right?
You may not be the freest place on Earth.
[audience laughing]
Just a quick example,
out of the 92 free countries
on the planet,
you have the highest rate
of incarceration.
One percent of your adult population
is in prison.
That's double that of the country that
comes in second, which is South Africa.
If you've ever been to South Africa,
South Africa is f*cked.
[audience laughing]
So you're double that of South Africa.
[chuckling] So, statistically,
in the land of the free,
you have the least amount of free people.
[audience laughing]
Now, this is a super simple one.
Super simple argument.
In Holland,
you can smoke weed whilst f*cking a hooker
in front of a cop.
[audience laughing]
How dare Holland not be called
the land of the free?
Do you honestly think
you're competing with Holland?
In Canada,
just last year, they legalized
assisted su1c1de for the sick,
which, I believe,
is the biggest freedom of them all.
It's your life.
No government, no religious group
should ever tell you...
[audience cheering and applauding]
when you get to check out.
If you're a pro-life person, good.
Do it with your life, not mine. Right?
- Now...
- [audience cheering and applauding]
'Cause...
Also, I don't think
they've thought about it.
I don't think there's even
the most evangelical Christian,
who's a burn victim, just hanging
on to life support in a hospital, just...
[gasping]
"I feel so free."
And I'm so glad
they're doing it in Canada,
because if I ever had an assisted su1c1de,
I'd want it to be a Canadian doctor.
I want some guy
rocking up to my house like,
[mock Canadian accent]
"Okay. All righty, then...
So I hear that someone's
given up on life, eh?
All right, let me set up my little
death machine here, and I'll...
I'm gonna put this in your vein,
and you're gonna be so sleepy so soon.
I tell you what, there."
[audience laughing]
In Australia, maybe 20 years ago,
they legalized prostitution.
They thought it'd be the downfall
of our society, but it wasn't.
It was a great thing.
In Sydney, where I grew up,
the streets always had hookers
walking around,
there was needles, and it was
a very seedy city in some parts.
And then they legalized prostitution.
They moved all the hookers into brothels.
And because they moved into brothels,
all the girls had to be tested for STDs.
And then, the guys,
they could see the tests as they go in,
so it was safer for the men.
But it was also safer for the women
'cause they put security
in these brothels.
So if you showed up like a drunk idiot,
they wouldn't let you in.
Or if you got aggro,
they'd kick you the f*ck out.
So the girls were safer,
the men were safer.
Human trafficking was all but eliminated.
And tax revenue went up.
And the divorce rate dropped by 8%.
[audience laughing]
There is no downside
to legalized prostitution.
Now, in America,
prostitution is illegal...
unless you film it.
How is that possible?
How the f*ck is that possible?
How do you have
the biggest porn industry in the world,
and you still have illegal prostitution?
Because it is legal
to pay a woman for sex,
but your friend Dave
has to be in the corner with a camera.
[audience laughing]
And Dave has to film it.
And Dave has to promise
to put it on the Internet,
'cause if Dave doesn't,
then a crime has been committed.
And that girl can be 18 years old.
And then, she can be surrounded
by ten men that she barely knows,
and they can all jack off onto her face
until she's glazed with come.
[audience laughing]
And no crime has been committed.
But in America, and only in America,
she's too young to have a beer.
If anyone deserves a beer...
[audience cheering and applauding]
in the land of the free,
the home of the brave...
it's the girl
with ten loads of come on her face.
In fact, if you have
ten loads of come on your face,
you should get free drinks
wherever you go.
[audience laughing]
You seem like a fun girl...
or a heavy sleeper.
[audience laughing]
Now...
before I go...
[sniffs] Um...
My son turned three,
and my girlfriend made me
write him a letter on his third birthday
for him to open when he was 18.
I don't know f*cking why.
You know when chicks go,
"You need to do this thing"?
I'm like, "Why?
I have 15 years. Why?"
But I did it, you know.
So I wrote the letter.
And I'm really bad
at writing things on paper.
I've got terrible handwriting.
I'm basically illiterate and a f*cking...
And so, I'm like,
"Dear Hank, so you're a man now.
I'm sure you've made me very proud.
Unless, of course,
you're a drug addict or something.
Come to think of it,
there are many ways to disappoint me.
Who knows?
I might be dead by now.
Or you might be dead,
and I'm reading this whilst crying."
[audience laughing]
I, um...
So, I'm writing the letter,
I just... I thought,
"Little life tips,
things that you should do in life."
So the next thing I wrote was this.
"A wise man once said,
'Try not to be a c**t.'"
[audience cheering]
And then, I just gave him
little bits of advice like,
"If you get a parking ticket,
pay it right away.
Don't leave it.
It's a pain in the ass.
And always love your mum."
And I mean this.
If my son's watching this at 18 right now,
watching me perform...
No person has ever loved you
more than your mother loves you,
so you always be good to that woman.
- And then...
- [audience cheering and applauding]
And then, I wrote about...
I just thought I'd tell him about
the good and bad things in my life,
and the things I did well
and didn't do well.
And I've been very open about this,
and I feel like by being open about this,
it helps others.
I don't know, but I've always...
Fairly severe depression my whole life.
Suicidal at times.
And, it's a very selfish thing,
depression,
because I know my life's good
and I can't wrap my brain around it.
I just... I don't...
Right now, my brain's going,
"Maybe this special
isn't as good as the last one."
And so, I've never really enjoyed success.
I've never really had pure happiness
like some people do.
[stutters] I'm such a pessimist.
When you meet these people who go,
"You're such a glass-half-empty
sort of guy."
I'm like,
"These glass-half-full c**ts, f*ck them."
[audience laughing]
You know what I mean?
I've never met
a successful glass-half-full c**t.
You'll never be anything
if you think the glass is half full.
If you want to get ahead,
walk in the room and go,
"Why isn't that f*cking glass full?"
Anyway, so I thought about
what would make me happy,
what would've made me happy,
what makes other people happy.
And so I wrote to him, I said,
"I think the secret to happiness is this.
The secret to happiness...
is being good-looking.
[audience laughing]
Now, throughout your life,
people will lie to you and say things like
'kindness,' or 'being good to others,'
or 'family' or some shit."
[audience laughing]
The only way to truly be happy
in this world is to be good-looking.
Now, in this world, we have everything
from one,
being the ugliest person on Earth,
to ten,
being the best-looking person on Earth,
and we have everything in between.
And there's very few ones,
very few twos,
and very few threes.
And four, five, six
is the meat of the bell curve.
That's where 95% of the population
is average-looking.
Four, five, six,
and seven, eight, nine, ten.
Now... I've been looking out
at the audience here.
[audience laughing]
Uh...
Pretty good. Like...
I've spotted an eight.
Or what they call an LA six.
- I...
- [audience laughing]
But, uh...
I spotted an eight.
That's pretty good in Nashville, man.
Don't be offended.
Tens are super rare.
There's never been a ten
in my audience, ever.
I don't think tens
come to things like this.
I think tens are sitting at home
with other tens going, "I'm so happy."
- Eh?
- [audience laughing]
And nines are as rare as tens, almost.
A nine is just an imperfect ten.
A nine is like a ten with a f*cked-up toe.
[audience laughing]
So, an eight's pretty good.
Now, regrettably...
- there is a two in the audience.
- [audience laughing]
Now, I'm not gonna point you out.
- You know who you are.
- [audience laughing]
There are no ones.
Ones are as rare as tens.
I've seen about five ones in my life.
They... Ones don't really leave the house.
They...
- they know they upset the rest of us.
- [audience laughing]
The only time you catch a one
is they're going to
a doctor's appointment or something.
And it really is upsetting.
You walk by, they're normally
being lifted out of a minivan
with a special crane onto a special chair.
And when you see a one,
it does ruin your day, doesn't it?
You walk by the one
and you're like, "Oh, f*ck me.
Oh, that's a f*cking one
if ever I've seen one."
You get to work and you can't focus,
and your boss is like, "What's wrong?"
And you're like,
"I saw a f*cking one, didn't I?"
And they're like,
"Oh, it couldn't have been that..."
"It was that bad!
You weren't there!
This is bullshit!
I was gonna eat today."
Now, in case anyone's wondering...
and I know you're not...
I'm a five.
The reason I know I'm a five
is 'cause, as I said,
an average-looking human being.
Now, the reason I know I'm a five is this.
When I walk past people, nothing happens.
[audience laughing]
People don't get upset,
nor do they get disappointed.
We all move on with our lives.
I have hair.
But it's shit hair.
Five!
I have teeth.
They're a little yellow.
They're a little crooked.
But they're all there!
- Five!
- [audience laughing]
I have eyes.
They do not sparkle.
- But they do face in the same direction.
- [audience laughing]
Five!
And because I'm a five,
that means society has deemed it okay
for me and other fives
to get into dimly-lit rooms...
and we can f*ck each other.
And no one gets upset.
They're like,
"Oh, it's a couple of fives f*cking.
Let them have their fun."
And we get in there
with our average five bodies, like just...
My little gut resting
on her f*cking imperfect floppy ass,
and we're just f*cking.
We're sweating on each other
'cause neither of us work out.
Just grabbing onto an average tit, like...
[groaning]
And the two of us are thinking about,
a seven that we know
that we actually want to f*ck.
I'm like, "Maybe if she
gets depressed or something,
I could swoop in there. That would be..."
'Cause us fives, we do not
think about the nines and the tens
- because we dare not touch the sun.
- [audience laughing]
Now...
I'm a minor celebrity,
so that means I get to f*ck sixes.
I f*ck the shit out of sixes.
People go, "He's off the telly.
He can f*ck a six."
f*cked some sevens?
Yeah, I f*cked some sevens.
Couple of eights.
One nine!
Best day ever. I f*cked a nine.
Now...
I'm also a drinker.
So...
I have f*cked some fours...
[audience laughing]
a shitload of threes...
and one two.
And when I f*cked the two,
that was the lowest point in my life.
[chuckling] I gave up drinking
for 18 months after I f*cked the two.
That's how important it is
to be good-looking.
I f*cked a two
and my whole self-esteem was ruined...
Oh, wait, I remember
when I f*cked the two,
I woke up in the... Hey, hang on.
I'm still writing the letter
to my son, by the way.
[audience laughing]
So, I remember when I f*cked the two,
Hank. And I woke up...
next to her.
And I rolled over...
I was hungover, like, "Oh, what happened?"
And then I saw her and went,
"Oh, no! f*ck this!" And then...
And I went into the fetal position.
I started... [groaning]
"It's a f*cking two.
That's a two. That's a two."
Everybody in this world
likes to think they're a good person.
Not all of us are good people.
We all think we're a good person.
And so my brain did this.
"Come on, Jim. You're better than this.
Maybe if you talk to it.
[audience laughing]
Maybe you'll find out
the thing has dreams or feelings.
Give that a go."
So I rolled over
with the best of intentions, like,
"Hey, do you...
Oh, no! f*ck off! No way, man."
And she tried to comfort me
with her claw, just...
[audience laughing]
I'll never forget the two.
But it's been so long now
that I can laugh about it.
I do laugh about it. I was in my car,
remembering how the two was
the worst thing that happened to me.
And I was like this... [laughs]
"Oh, you f*cked a two.
Classic Jim Jefferies.
When will you ever learn?"
And I was sitting in the car...
and I was thinking
about how f*cking the two...
was the worst thing
I've ever done in my life.
And then my brain did a horrible thing.
My brain went...
"That's how the nine felt
when she woke up next to you."
[audience laughing]
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much.
- [audience cheering]
- Appreciate it.
[chuckling] We'll see you later.
[rock music playing]
Jim Jefferies: Freedumb (2016)
Moderator: Maskath3