Career
At one time, Jefferies incorporated the incident, including its video recording, into his act: this can be seen on his 2008 Digital Video Disc Contraband. He became well known in the United States after his popular debut stand-up special on Home Box Office. Jefferies has performed at numerous festivals, including the Edinburgh Fringe, Montreal Comedy Festival (Just for Laughs), South African Comedy Festival Cape Town, Reading and Leeds Festivals and the Glastonbury Festival. He has appeared on British comedy panel shows such as Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Have I Got News for You, The Heaven and Earth Show and 8 Out of 10 Cats and the United States comedy panel show The Green Room with Paul Provenza.
He has also been featured on various radio programmes, including British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 5 Live"s Saturday morning sports show, and Opie and Anthony Fighting Talk.
lieutenant was recorded from Ifft"s home in Los Los Angeles In December 2012, Jefferies left the podcast due to his work schedule filming his television series, Legit.
Jefferies"s comedy series Legit premiered on 17 January 2013 on Forex. A second season premiered on 26 February 2014, having been moved to FXX. The series has received positive attention for its portrayal of people with mental and physical disabilities. On 14 May 2014, it was announced that Legit was cancelled and would not return for a third season.
In February 2014 he starred in a low budget Australian feature film called Maine and My Mates vs the Zombie Apocalypse with Australian comedians Greg Fleet and Alex Williamson, which premiered in Australian cinemas on July 25, 2015.
lieutenant was released in Digital Video Disc and on Vimeo in Australia and New Zealand in late 2015. In November 2014 Jim guest starred on Bad Judge in the episode "The Cat"s Out of the Bag."
Jim Jeffries: Hell Bound: Live at The Comedy Store London – Released: 2008
Contraband – (5000 limited editions) Released: 10 November 2008 (United Kingdom Home Video)
I Swear to God – Broadcast: 16 May 2009. Released: 13 October 2009 (United States Home Video)
Alcoholocaust – Released: 8 November 2010 (Comedy Central United Kingdom Digital Video Disc)
Fully Functional – Release: October 2012
Bare – Release: 29 August 2014 (Netflix).