Jim Jeffries on comedy clubs: Americans vs. British

Jim Jeffries is a stand-up comedian from Australia who works a lot in the U.K. and already has quite the reputation, but he's just starting to make a name for himself in the United States.

The Comic's Comic caught up with Jim in his hotel room during the Just For Laughs Chicago comedy festival, and he explained for us how he feels about doing stand-up comedy in America, and how the clubs operate differently in the States versus in Britain.

Can't a guy just get pissed once in a while?

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[charlieistkool]

oh, go away seriously! NO ONE in England speak in the typical posh english accent that many americans like to think we do. Have you ever visited England? It really isn't like that outside the Royal family...

[leapoffaith20]

@GAYPRIDE1985 Pissed means drunk, pissed off means angry.

[rushtonian]

@GAYPRIDE1985

when did you move to britain?

i've lived here all my life, the only people who don't know it are the very upper middle classes, like 1-5%, and no, its not slang, its common speech

[GAYPRIDE1985]

@rushtonian umm no they don't, I live here so I would kno. NOBODY knows that meaning. And it most certainly is slang

[rushtonian]

@GAYPRIDE1985 everyone bar america does & no it really isn't

[GAYPRIDE1985]

@rushtonian Everyone doesn't know here in the US.....and yes it is slang.

[rushtonian]

@GAYPRIDE1985 everyone knows and it's not slang.

[iiFlii]

@drarry13 Seeing as before they were amercians they were british, they really didnt have to borrow anything because its what they knew since they were taught it. Americans now have basically changed english in to something more modern. I tend to hear british people talk as if the revolutionary war is still going on..sometimes.

[GAYPRIDE1985]

NO WAY!!!!! "Pissed" means drunk in Britain??? I didn't know that....I would think you were angry too. When I was little and read Alice in wonderland, I didn't understand what the mad hatter what angry about. It wasn't until I was 14 that I learned mad meant crazy in Britain which is what the British writer meant. Here "Mad" ONLY means angry....and so does "Pissed." Drunk would be fucked up or shit faced. Thats cool though....I just learned more British slang today! I guarantee no one else knows

[Redfingers]

@KillingDarwin

I'm an American, but I like Vinland better, man.

That sounds pretty boss.